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  • #1538907
    LZ
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      There’s a new listing on eBay that stole a photo from my listing. I reported the auction, but the reasons I am allowed to choose from a drop-down menu don’t fit very well. Is there any other way I can report the item? Will eBay contact me for a follow up? The form response didn’t really say anything like that.

       

      The terms they listed in the item description are super shady too, though again, none of the reasons for reporting the item really fit what they are trying to do.

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      #1538925
      Kim
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        This has happened to me before too and I messaged the person and asked them to please not use my photos as that was against ebay’s policies and warned they would be reported and they took them down.  I think I did report them too but I can’t remember what I reported them for.  You could always call or write ebay to clear anything up if reporting them doesn’t resolve it.

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        #1538936
        LZ
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          I messaged the seller. Response was…. not polite.

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          #1538939
          Zexious
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            People are confounding ): I hope you ended up reporting them!

            #1538944
            tig3r06
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              There’s a link somewhere on their listing to report their item.  I can’t remember the choices, but pick the closest and you can provide a short description.

              #1538945
              tig3r06
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                I found them and reported them through the link on their page.  And their listing description is weird and seems shady asking for money after the fact.  Anyway…

                Here’s the link you need as the seller to report stolen pics:

                http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/vero-image-text-theft.html

                #1538950
                GardenNinja
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                  There’s a new listing on eBay that stole a photo from my listing. I reported the auction, but the reasons I am allowed to choose from a drop-down menu don’t fit very well.

                  You have to go through three selections to get to the appropriate one. In your case, you would select “Copyright and trademark” from the first drop-down, then “eBay item infringes your intellectual property rights” from the second. In this case, there is only one selection in the third drop-down, and it looks like it ends up at the link Tig3er06 posted above.

                  Will eBay contact me for a follow up? The form response didn’t really say anything like that.

                  For other reporting categories, they specifically say they won’t contact you. But since this goes somewhere else, I don’t know.
                   
                  I report people who mention Windstone for non-Windstone items. That is “listing practices”, “search and browse manipulation”, and “keyword spamming”. If you want to do that, be sure that the item is not a different Windstone – there is a Windstone Press, so books are usually legitimate. Also people misspell Norma Winstone a lot, and there are on rare occasions memorabilia from Windstone Golf Club, plus one-offs like a particular Marvel Mixup comic, a book of nature photography by David Muench (which I highly recommend if you like nature photography – I was buying his photo books before I ever heard of Windstone Editions.)

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                  #1538960
                  LZ
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                    The seller changed the photo and apologized to me. Thank you everyone for your help!

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                    Sitting young oriental dragon koi gold and white

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