Why does eBay allow Picture and Description Theft?

[computer-geek541]

Kind of a rant but here it goes:

Why does eBay allow picture and description theft?

When you report the listings using the proper online form, eBay just ignores you and does nothing about it.

When phone into customer service, they promise you action, tell you all the right things, but nothing ever gets done.  eBay will tell you to watermark the pictures but even after promising to remove stolen photographs and listing descriptions, nothing will ever get done.

If you post on the forums about this issue, eBay locks the thread because it's against the rules to talk about a specific listing where someone has stolen your pictues and descriptions.  They forum rules say you must just report the offednding listings using the online help forms (which ALL get ignored).

When you contact a "Pink", guess what?  You get ignored.

For more than 3 months, I have been putting up with about 5 different sellers (all of whom I am certain are the same person) who constatntly steal either my photographs or item descriptions (or both) to sell a particular item.  eBay does nothing about it and even allows it to continue (which essentially means no accountability by eBay for copyright infringement by eBay not taking any action) 

[decal-fx]

slight OT, but that's cool how you have set up you listings so the text description can not be C & P. I don't really know HTML, but I had to drill down through 3 source pages to get to your actual copy & paste-able text description.  Is that a eBay setting or special program  you are using to make that happen?

[computer-geek541]

I don't know html either but someone provided me with a code so disables right-clicking.  It doesn't always work (depends on how the website is set up and also depends on the browser).  And it doesn't make it impossible to copy the text;  it just makes it a little more difficult. 

The seller who copied my description had the nerve to copy my description word for word and even use the same picture.  If that seller had to go throw that much trouble to be able to copy my text, why not just create his own listing description?   He also uses multiple seller i.d.'s and sells the same thing in multiple listing at the same time, with either a picture stolen from me or from another seller - unbelievable.  eBay does nothing about it! If someone does it to you, don't count on eBay being of any assistance.