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"are you serious or joking?"
I am very serious.
I am always aggressive with crooks. About fifteen years ago I had a Canadian buyer place a bid on one of my $5,000 lot. He refused to pay. I sent him a bill for $500 handling fee. It took about three weeks (and I had to contact one of his family member to shame him) but I got paid my $500.
There is nothing to lose in sending the crook an invoice. He may think twice about doing it again.
"If he doesn't pay the invoice, I can open a paypal dispute? " No.
Contact the Chinese seller and ask for his email address
Once you have the email address send him a PayPal invoice for $100.00 for using your images.
@eurobeads wrote:
So I'm browsing Alibaba a few days ago and I come across a Chinese seller who has thieved at least 10 of my eBay item photos (necklaces) and is selling them for pennies. Seller's entire Alibaba store inventory is made up of stolen designs/eBay photos from various eBay users, mostly North Americans. This includes MANY original handcrafted items by a US seller. And this is what the **** Chinese are resorting to now: they are stealing our designs, our photos and selling OUR products in bulk for $0.10 a PC. So now I'm watermarking all my photos. What a pain in the behind.
Everywhere I look, people are taking the easy way out at others' expense. And I'm so sick and tired of these Canadian sellers who lie to their customers claiming their items are Pandora and selling them for double market value, hoarding the search & browse with their fraud.
And no, flagging doesn't work 99% of the time.
Why is it SO difficult for people to run an honest online store without cheating, lying and stealing?
I don't know, it's like people who put "gold" and "silver" in their titles when they are selling things which are not "gold" or "silver"!
It's keyword spamming when it's in the title of a jewellery listing.
It's misleading when it's used in a title for a jewellery listing where "gold" & "silver" are commonly used to describe the material the item is made from.
"silver alloy", "gold toned alloy" both are weasel words that tell you nothing.
What does "silver alloy" mean? 1% silver, 10% silver or just some metal that has a silver colour?
What does "gold toned alloy" mean? Is there any actual gold or just the colour that is "gold"?
Normally I wouldn't care but you are the one who commented on a lack of "honesty".
"are you serious or joking?"
I am very serious.
I am always aggressive with crooks. About fifteen years ago I had a Canadian buyer place a bid on one of my $5,000 lot. He refused to pay. I sent him a bill for $500 handling fee. It took about three weeks (and I had to contact one of his family member to shame him) but I got paid my $500.
There is nothing to lose in sending the crook an invoice. He may think twice about doing it again.
"If he doesn't pay the invoice, I can open a paypal dispute? " No.
If buyers actually knew the difference they wouldn't be buying millions of cheap trinkets from China thinking they were actually getting real gold or sterling silver.
If my listing says I charge $4 for shipping that is EXACTLY what I charge, what the shipping actually costs me isn't relevant at all.
It is not eBay. Please read the thread from the beginning.
