Warning: eBay will be using photos without creators' permission.

[MarioMaster]

"Starting on August 31st, eBay is going to institute a new policy where photos you upload to any listing are put into a "catalog" of online images that any eBay user can then use for their own listings. The default setting for this is opt-in, which is a problem if you, like me, consider your photographs your property and want to control how they are used and by whom. A copyright notice is posted with a link to your user profile, but no additional information is given, and the link is quite small.

Since the default setting is opt-in, and eBay has not sent messages out about this, a lot of people are going to be caught flat-footed by this new policy."


naamah_darling: Warning: eBay will be using photos without creators' permission.

 

[YGG]

That's weak, I don't want pictures off good products stolen, yours could look bad and mine could be mint. In some cases personal pictures are very important for sealing the deal.

 

[lasersbee]

This isn't right by eBay... What pics I put on my listings are mine...
eBay doesn't pay me for them...

That's like saying any member can dip into my PayPal account...
unless I opt out....
Ain't gonna happen if I can help it....:tsk:

Jerry

 

[T_Warne]

That is WEAK!!! Doesn't this make it easy for all kinds of misrepresentation and fraud? If I buy something I want to see a picture of the actual item that I will be buying, not some stock image that kinda' resembles it.

I suppose for those of you Gents who actually use your own photographs you could watermark the pictures with your website or logo?

 

[wesdaman14]

This is why i have made my own Website for my buyers.
Bigger attention, cheaper and all your control of your buyers. haha.
eBay can suck mah dick

 

[sad_sagi]

so i can sell my old video game system that is discolored and cracked and has soda spilled on it by posting a picture someone else put on ebay of a brand new one?
AWESOME

really though, if your doing good photos you can do what some do, and make a card or piece of paper with your ebay username on it and include that in the photo, preferably covering some part of it so it can't be edited out. if word of this gets out doing so would make buyers more likely to buy (i think)
or do some high quality watermarks as T_warne said

 

[GoRdOn_B]

watermarking photos is probably going to be the only way to to avoid anyone using them.. im sure they will want "generic" photos to use. if you consider the pictures your property.. and yours alone.. well then you shouldnt upload them onto the web. once it hits there, they become public property.


My .02¢

 

[nikokapo]

watermarking photos is probably going to be the only way to to avoid anyone using them.. im sure they will want "generic" photos to use. if you consider the pictures your property.. and yours alone.. well then you shouldnt upload them onto the web. once it hits there, they become public property.


My .02¢

.02 cents is less than 2 cents


I always watermark my pictures when selling ANYTHING, I've had many fraudulent users stealing my pictures and using them to sell their stuff.
So now buyers have to see a biga$$ watermark on the middle of every pic.

 

[HIMNL9]

Heheh ..... just put your name (or name site) across the objects images, and a text in the corner that say something like "don't steal my pics, you lazy losers" or something similar

As far as i know, this is not against ebay rules

 

[larrball]

So now, all the "true green laser pointer 100mw" sellers wont have to go to far to get the same (repeat) photo's we have seen in the past.

And ya niko.. >02 for ebay.. lol

 

[rog8811]

That is WEAK!!! Doesn't this make it easy for all kinds of misrepresentation and fraud? If I buy something I want to see a picture of the actual item that I will be buying, not some stock image that kinda' resembles it.

TW said it first so I quoted him for ease.
Ebay has, over the last 2 years made buying and selling far more prone to scams/shill bidding/dishonest listings and so on whilst all the time saying it will be safer.

This is just another nail in the coffin, as stated above if I am buying I want to know the photo's I am looking at are the item I am buying.
Good sellers who use stock photo's will normally state that it is a stock photo.... scammers don't.

Regards rog8811

 

[nikokapo]

Some prick is using my video to sell his stuff, he says he found it on youtube (lol yeah, I uploaded it under my personal username!) and thus it's free. I'd like to sue him and let him live on the street

 

[primary]

did you make sure you uploaded it as private instead of public, niko?

 

[nikokapo]

did you make sure you uploaded it as private instead of public, niko?

No, but the guy downloaded my video and uploaded it to the commercial site. I forgot to watermark it as I do with all my pictures, though..

 

[lamborgini8]

I can't see the logic behind this... firstly eBay already charge you to add more than one image to the listing, surely they wont be charging people to use images copied from other listings right?

Secondly if eBay are not charging people to use images from the gallery then wont they be loosing out on more money? If they are free then people are going to go for the free option.

Thirdly this totally defeats the point of putting an image there in the first place... The idea of getting the picture is to prove you have the item and to prove the condition its in.

 

[VillageIdiot]

kinda lame that is.

*disappears once more*