*AGAIN!* Someone stole my pic and it's on eBay NOW! What do I do!?

[Gingerbread]

If you are on their page where the listing are, on the left there will be a tick box for 'Completed Listings' which shows all their ended auctions for I think 30 days

[relcelestia]

Bumped for update

[Gingerbread]

They've done it again? Some people are just plain rude. I would ring eBay and contact the seller again. Tell the seller that you're contacting your lawyer about image theft or whatever you call it (too tired to think, sorry)

[Sarahlacewing]

That's terrible!

[Moondancer115]

Really!!! Some people just don't know when to stop
They will never learn it. I should contact ebay again maybe they can do something against her because she stole pictures for the second time.

[RedheadedBeauty]

I really don't understand ebay and their multiple violation before we can do something attitude. Please if it's that bad and I think image theft is pretty bad since it's pretty much faking the whole auction should b dealt with the first time not 10 times later. *gurr*

[Ringlets]

Ugh!! that sucks!    @ seller   
Keep reporting it and pestering ebay until they do something about it. Talk to someone on the phone if they arent sorting it out via email.  They need to remove this auction  right away since it is image theft and it goes against their own policies

[RockinPrettyBeats]

Unfortunately Ebay doesn't always respond fast enough. The other problem is that sellers who are in competition with eachother (sell the same item) report auctions for such reasons but some are false reports.

So Ebay has to weed out the real ones with the fake ones.

I have had text stolen. It's so lazy and pathetic the people that do that. If you can't take a picture and write your own auction, don't sell on Ebay.

[Xaniss]

Wow! I'm sorry to hear people have the gall to do this! Perhaps you could find a unique table-cloth or curtains to use as a backdrop to distinguish your listings and reduce image theft..? Just a suggestion of course! I have an old G3 backcard I use (not very original I know.. ) when I take photos of my ponies, but at least I know not many other people actually *use* that particular backcard.... maybe.  Well not that I've seen on ebay! 

...I actually had to add the link to the rules about it to my listings because it seemed like it was happening every other day to me.  They either used my pictures or copied my template word for word to their listing...

Hahah! YES!! I not implying this is funny at all, but I actually saw a couple of ebay listings [months ago] with with your 'believe' in the title!!  It was a real 'what the..?' moment - total utter rip-off!

[ponylady]

   I can't believe she had the nerve to use it again.
 
I am just curious though when you reported it did you send a link from your auction that the picture was stolen?
 
@Xaniss, I actually kinda laugh about it too now.  Do they think it will go unnoticed or something.  I mean I have customers email to tell me most of the time which I find even funnier.  Grateful but funny.

[RockinPrettyBeats]

Oh yeah, along with sending a link from the auction it was from, make sure you use a link to the EARLIEST auction that used the photo. So if you relisted the item 3 times, use the completed auction from the FIRST time you listed it. This will help 100% prove that indeed you had the photo first and therefore took the photo.

[relcelestia]

Oh yeah, along with sending a link from the auction it was from, make sure you use a link to the EARLIEST auction that used the photo. So if you relisted the item 3 times, use the completed auction from the FIRST time you listed it. This will help 100% prove that indeed you had the photo first and therefore took the photo.

good call! i only listed it onces so that made it easy haha!

  I can't believe she had the nerve to use it again.
 
I am just curious though when you reported it did you send a link from your auction that the picture was stolen?
 
@Xaniss, I actually kinda laugh about it too now.  Do they think it will go unnoticed or something.  I mean I have customers email to tell me most of the time which I find even funnier.  Grateful but funny.

thats awesome that your buyers let you know! so cool ^_^
and yes when you report it they ask you for the item # of the listing the pic/text was stolen from.

Wow! I'm sorry to hear people have the gall to do this! Perhaps you could find a unique table-cloth or curtains to use as a backdrop to distinguish your listings and reduce image theft..? Just a suggestion of course! I have an old G3 backcard I use (not very original I know..   ) when I take photos of my ponies, but at least I know not many other people actually *use* that particular backcard.... maybe.    Well not that I've seen on ebay!   

hahah!! i actually already have a signature in my pics, its the little white cup like this the one below
but this particular listing was for a Paradise Estate fork which is suuuper tiny!! and the pic was very close up so you couldnt see the cup.
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and that is just crazy that people have stolen your subject title ponylady!!!
gah, you think that would just be so obvious!
im embarassed FOR them!

[RockinPrettyBeats]

Just wondering, Ponylady do you put "believe" in your titles to distinguish your listings from others? And then someone puts "believe" in their titles so people looking for your auctions will find theirs?

Is that the idea?

[ponylady]

Pretty much, along with the Believe plaque in my pictures 

[tornadoe]

you need to water mark it. I don't know how you do this but somehow your username ends up across the picture but seethrough. It means no one can steal your images ever again