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I have something unpleasant to tell you all about and perhaps a warning too.
I have my Peacock Lap Dragon listed on Ebay. I took the photo myself and wrote the listing myself, and someone else has copied my photo and words into their listing. This person has used my words on two of their listings, and my photo in one. I’ve notified Ebay about it (yesterday) and they have yet to do anything about it.
I have a bid on my dragon so I can’t change the photo for one with a watermark. Make sure you put a watermark on your photos on Ebay or someone will steal them and use them for their own listings.
The worst thing is that they are the only other seller to have a Peacock Lap Dragon on Ebay right now, and they’re using my photo and words to compete with me for bids. I’m so mad! I wish Ebay would pull their listing, but they haven’t done anything at all yet. Grrr!
Yes, I’ve contacted the seller, and they said they would remove the photo, but now there’s a bid on it so they can’t. They insist they took the photo with a velvet backdrop, but if you look at their other auction where they’ve done that, there’s a huge difference between the two. I KNOW that photo is mine and they’re lying. Why else would they offer to remove it? And I think the person bidding is either a friend or another account of theirs since they just signed up on Ebay. They’re just trying to keep the auction from being pulled.
when I first saw that I thought, oh emerald has another lap dragon up! it was a day layer I actually looked at it and saw it wasn’t.
That’s happened to me before! I absolutely HATE THAT! Ebay should really be on top of that kind of thing when you notify them!
You can blatently tell that’s it’s the same photo. I see you watermarked the mother though. Good idea!
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Unfortunately I can’t watermark the Lap Dragon photo now because I have a bid, and Ebay blocks you from removing or changing your photo if you have a bid. I wish I could! Of course, it’s too late. That other person has already stolen it.
I don’t care about my other items that much, but the dragon pictures I cared about. I just never thought somebody would have the b**ls to outright steal it. I’m not sure how to protect my words. I guess there’s no way to do that.
I guess it depends where you have the picture hosted then.
If someone links to any image of mine, I replace that image with something VERY questionable. Nothing like going to an auction and seeing a big shot of some disgusting fetish porn, that’ll get the auction shut off in a hurry!
It’s hosted on Ebay. They are not linked to it. They copied the photo to their computer and uploaded it to Ebay for their auction. Then they copied and pasted my words too.
Emerald, It’s too late now for this auction, but Snapdragon is right. The best thing you can do is host your pictures somewhere else (and watermark them). You can always change or move a picture but if the thief copies the picture and then hosts it to eBay (as you did) there’s no way to correct it. Ebay will remove the auction eventually providing you were able to show them your auction(s) that they stole from. I have had the same issue with stolen artwork or descriptions and they did remove the offending auction. … As a suggestion, take a look at one of my own completed auctions http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330061806842
The image is watermarked enough to make it something that someone else would not want to use. In addition, if you *right click* on the page, as if to copy something, you get a stern warning. There is a way to get around this but most eBayers are to lazy to bother trying. If you want to use the code to bring up the warning in your own auctions you can copy it from the source code of my auction. Failing that, if you want to contact me, I will send it to you. Good luck with your own auctions.
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