Someone Stole My E-bay Picture!!!
By Michele21
@Michele21 (3093)
United States
June 22, 2007 9:53pm CST
I have some mystery cash auctions on Ebay and I just found someone using MY picture!!! MY PICTURE!! I don't mind if someone uses my description or whatever, but my picture?? What should I do?? I want to send them a message saying I know what they are doing, but will it do any good?? I am really mad about this!! Please help me and tell me what you think I shoudl do???/
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9 responses
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
1 Jul 07
The nerve of this individual..Report this person immediately.... I just noticed this is a week old.. have you figured it out yet? I sure hope so...
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@Michele21 (3093)
• United States
1 Jul 07
I sent her an e-mail asking her not to use my picture again and she said she could if she wanted too, and that she might have to report me because my auctions look like hers. So I looked at her other auctions and she had copied 3 of my other auctions, word for word. She didn't even change anything up so it wasn't so bad....she was really snotty so I put a copyright on all of my auctions now. If she wants to copy my wording at least she could change them up a little bit so it wouldn't be so bad!! E-aby said they won't do anything if I don't have my listing copyrighted...so I am doing it now on all of my auctions.
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
1 Jul 07
I am glad that you have a way to stop her...How sad for someone to just steal your stuff.."what goes around, comes around," and she will get hers when she least expects it....
@321633wy (1795)
• United States
1 Jul 07
It happens so many cases of copying some one's picture of the item but i have never heard about stolen other member's picture.This rediculous!If you want to warn him/her you can send a message to him/her.If he/she ignore you then you can go ahead and report them.
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@Michele21 (3093)
• United States
1 Jul 07
I sent her an e-mail asking her to not use my picture again and she actually had the nerve to tell me I copied her picture!! And asome of her other auctions as well and she just might report me for stealing from her!! How crazy is that?? So I looked at her other auctions and three more were exact copies of mine!! I couldn't believe it, she couldn't even change some words around so it wouldn't be so bad!! So now I put a copyright thingy on all of my listings so if she does it again I can report her, on the Ebay site it said your pictures and text have to be copyrighted in order for them to cancel someone else's listings.
@impaktita (965)
• Philippines
25 Jun 07
wow you must be really goodlooking for someone to steal your photo haha. i think you should just report them and see what ebay staff will do about it :) you should also send him/her a message or something asking why he took your photo. just a suggestion though!
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@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
24 Jun 07
If you report it to ebay, they will remove the auction and reprimand the person that stole the picture! I would also message the person and let them know you are reporting them and find it ridiculous that they had to steal your picture! Ebay will take care of it though, they will remove the accounts of repeat offenders, but if no one reports them, they'll never know!
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@marshall_blake2000 (304)
• United States
29 Jun 07
i have had this happen just report them to ebay and there auction will be cancelled
@Melissa83 (23)
• United States
26 Jun 07
i would report them to ebay there are so many people out there tring to scam people they need to be stopped
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
23 Jun 07
Just simply report to ebay , they will give you a justice yea ...
@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
17 Jul 07
I am hoping to sell some of my native American crafts on EBay in the future (if I can get my computer running right and I can get a camera that works) The crafts are original and if someone tried to use my pictures then they would have a hard time to sent the craft to the winner. Maybe when I take the pictures I will add my name or some other identifying characteristic to the picture.
