Hey All
What can we do about other eBay sellers using pictures lifted from my listings besides reporting them to eBay safety and trust department. Most of these members are also members of Auctiva.
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Go to your account settings in Auctiva. Then go to 'image management; and enable image protection.
Although last week this feature was only working intermittantly....hopefully it's fixed now.
The best thing you can do is report to Ebay. Usually they will end that sellers listing.
Although last week this feature was only working intermittantly....hopefully it's fixed now.
The best thing you can do is report to Ebay. Usually they will end that sellers listing.
All my pictures are enabled with image protection. The image protection does not work. You can right click on image protected picture and the messege "Images protected by Auctiva. Sign up at www.auctiva.com to protect your images!" comes on...and if you click ok then you are free to use the right click feature save image as.
Email them and notify them of the eBay policy including a link to it and politely ask them to quit using your photos.Many users are unaware of this policy. If they persist they deserve to be turned in to eBay.
I myself have used another parties information for a rare collectible item, but only after I emailed the person and asked his permission, which he was very quick to grant and thanked me for my integrity saying that he has had people use his descriptions without asking. It was a old AC Gilbert erector set that I did not know much about and this man was an authority on them. i would never dream of using someones photos though.
I myself have used another parties information for a rare collectible item, but only after I emailed the person and asked his permission, which he was very quick to grant and thanked me for my integrity saying that he has had people use his descriptions without asking. It was a old AC Gilbert erector set that I did not know much about and this man was an authority on them. i would never dream of using someones photos though.
I found that the image protection did not work so I stop relying on it. A right click generally allowed me to do what I liked as for any 'unprotected' image. 
I watermark my pictures and also state in many of my listings that get copied that please do not use my photos or listing.
Even with this I have had to ask people not to use my listing and if they do not change it I report them.
Even with this I have had to ask people not to use my listing and if they do not change it I report them.
Yes, I find that visual watermarking (as opposed to being digitally encoded into the image)is pretty good for deterring casual image theft.
Some people never learn.
What I do is to upload a new image to Auctiva, use that in future listings and replace the stolen image with some thing a bit naughty ...porn picture maybe??
They will soon learn not to steal other people images and bandwidth.
What I do is to upload a new image to Auctiva, use that in future listings and replace the stolen image with some thing a bit naughty ...porn picture maybe??
They will soon learn not to steal other people images and bandwidth.