Someone relisted my AUCTION and lens as their own!!!

[spiralcity]

Is there anything that can be done about ebay users listing an item that is not theres? I recenty sold my 50mm EBC 1.4. This guy has lefted my aution info and made them his own. This isnt even the glass he is selling. Mine was mint, I wonder what his really look like.

This is my lens and my auction template.

Click here to see on Ebay

Perhaps some of you can write this guy and ask what his lens really looks like... ?

Be sure to let him know that this was a members lens...

[nemesis101]

YOU own the copyright to your text and your picture - if he uses it without your permission that's a (Federal) offense here in the USA.. write him, write to eBay and mention he legal issue to eBay and that you are the copyright owner and he / she is infringing your rights. They usually respond if you are the owner of the copyright

You can also report them for copying your listing.. either way.. go to the link at the bottom of the listing and complain as often as you can..

Doug.

[spiralcity]

I wrote this seller and this is his respnse.

Dear spiralcity1,

I am So So very sorry I was trying to cut/paste the description only.... you know where ebay has the feature of putting brand, what it fits, the MM, wheather it's new/used just to save time didn't realize it copied the WHOLE page! Again I'm very sorry for the inconvienence it will not happen again I assure Randy


- donreggaeton


hmmm, he didnt check his listing before posting? Just a bunch of B.S !

[M. Valdemar]

People steal photos and descriptions all the time on eBay. It happens thousands of times a day.

It's annoying, but there's really nothing you can do about it. eBay refuses to take any action, usually.

In the long run, it's no big deal. It's his problem, not your problem. It will soon be forgotten, and it's not like he caused you any monetary damages, so just forget it.

Consider it a compliment that he thought your auction was so great.

(The whole "Federal Offense" idea about a silly little eBay auction is ridiculous)

[themoleman342]

Silly maybe, but not incorrect

[M. Valdemar]

No Federal agency in existence is going to take any action against a copied eBay auction.

At any rate, to have a case, you have to prove damages.

Many very inexperienced people on internet forums have highly fanciful ideas about laws and enforcements.

[rawhead]

[nemesis101]

And you are certain of this how?

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered auctions taken down where copyright is involved, as have the law enforcement agencies of a number of countries.. and what I suggested was that copying an auction is an offence and eBay has a duty to take down any auction where copyright is infringed, once the copyright holder has made them aware of the breach. When they failed to so do in Europe it proved a very costly mistake for them...

I am quite sure if no-one makes a fuss then they won't, and the last thing we need is to give eBay grounds for inaction by having them assert 'no complaints received'?

Doug.

[Mike Deep]

Spiralcity, his auction still links to the images directly from your Photobucket. You still have some control. Rename or remove the images and he's got nothing. If you're feeling vindictive enough, put a new image of your choosing in the previous one's place (Rename the existing image, then upload a new one with the same name).

[patrickh]

I like that


patrickh

[nemesis101]

[spiralcity]

[Sevo]

Well, put up some pictures of a beater lens under the same name on photobucket.

Sevo

[alex]

A friend of mine, who is particular about the quality of photographs he uses, once put an iPod up for auction. Some time later, he found that a German seller had pinched his photographs for his own auctions, and moreover, made the mistake of linking directly to them, so that Ben's web space was being hit by fairly high traffic levels.

Ben got his girlfriend Birgitta, who's German, to prepare a new text to overlay the photographs, and replaced the originals. I can't remember the German text she devised, but it read in English something like 'All the items I sell are non-functioning dummies and do not work. If you ask for your money back, I'll tell you to *%&^% off.' (It was 'kiss my arse' but Ben's English version was more earthy still.)

It worked a treat.

[GrahamNR17]

Want ebay to remove his listing? Easy!

Just replace that photo with one of a little tiny dick (with the words "self portrait" imposed on it!) If he doesn't then change the listing, the ebay nudity police will

[spiralcity]

I deleted the images at photobucket.

Thanks for all the input.

[exe163]

I don't see what the big deal this is about. I take description and picture (generic ones) from other auctions from time to time. I don't think you can tell the difference between a mint lens and a new lens from pictures anyways, the seller is just lazy to take one of his own. If there is a problem with the lens, the buyer probably will do a chargeback and put the seller in jeopardy. There's no gain in doing so. And you surely will not be put in disadvantage of any kind also.

[scsambrook]

[spiralcity]

[spiralcity]

[Orio]

I moved the thread to Marketplace.

[Mal1905]

[lulalake]

[spiralcity]

[Farside]