posted on July 30, 2003 07:09:49 PM
Was just browsing through active and completed eBay auctions in categories that I plan to list again when I discovered that a seller is using my pictures from a completed auction from months ago in which I sold the item to them. They must have saved the pics to their computer and renamed them and then uploaded them to their image host. Generally I wouldn't be this upset over it but I still have two more of the same "exact item" and I want to list AND use my "same pictures" which are stored in my Vendio Images. What should I do about this situation??
Unfortunately, unless you have a watermark on your images that you can use to show eBay, chances are you will be unable to get them to remove this listing.
If they had actually linked to your original image, you could just delete it and rename it so it no longer appears in their auction, but if they made a copy to host on their own it will be hard to prove to eBay that they have in fact stolen this image from you.
Also, you may want to consider using some type of image editing program to add a watermark to this image before you use it again, to show that the image is in fact yours, then email the other seller and eBay to ask that it be removed. You could also site the original item number this image appeared with, so eBay can see you had an active listing with it long before this buyer of yours did.
posted on July 30, 2003 08:05:26 PM
Note that watermarking will be available on our site shortly, for a minimal charge. I believe that this should be available by mid-August.
