What would you do if someone is using your pictures and your title line?

What would you do if someone is using your pictures and your title line word for word?  They are also using it on others.  See below

 

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Re: What would you do if someone is using your pictures and your title line?

First a polite request that the other seller take down your pictures and scan his own.

If that does not help, Report the seller to eBay.

A Report usually just gets a polite note thanking you for your time, but I understand eBay does follow up and has even ended selling accounts for sellers who breach this protocol.

 

It's less common nowadays, but when most sellers were hosting their pictures on a third party site, some would change that picture to something more...interesting... and let the other seller take the fallout.

 

 

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It won't let me contact him at all as he only sells to the US.

 

This comes up on the screen:  

 

We're sorry we couldn't find an answer for you. Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question. We suggest reviewing the item again to see if your answer is in the seller's listing.

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I changed my address from Canada to my address in the US and I was able to send a note.  She may not do anything.  But i do watermark my photo, you can see it at the bottom on her listing. 

 

I'll post the outcome. 

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I got a note back and this is what it said.

 

Hello I've revised the listings it may take awhile for it to update I do apologize for the inconvenience when I hit the sell similar item it automatically puts your description in the title to save time sometimes I use screenshots I thought it was off the stock photo didn't realize it was yours have a great day

 

That is the problem with sell similar. 

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rosscd57
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I would say that I was flattered and forget about it.
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Old enough to know better. Young enough to do it again. Crazy enough to try
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That's good. I'm glad to hear that it was just an honest mistake and they're willing to take the photos down m
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Re: What would you do if someone is using your pictures and your title line?

This is probably the biggest source of irritation about selling on ebay to me. I'm happy that you had a successful resolution with the seller in question. 

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