Seller using my photo on eBay - should I let it slide?

I had a buyer who resold the coin he bought from me with my pictures and with my logo on it.
Reported it but nothing happenned.
The BIN price was too high so they lot was listed for several months and may be still on.
 
I've had this happen before. If it is an item that is new and I am selling several I ask the buyer to please remove it because I do not want their item competing with mine. In most cases they thought I took it from amazon or something in the first place so it's fair game. If they are selling something used they really should be getting their own photos. If it is a photo from an item I will probably never sell again it does not bother me.

When I am in a listing hurry I often take information from other completed listings and borrow a product photo from another website. I have not used others Ebay photos unless it was an item I purchased from a buyer and was reselling straight away.
 
GoldenEye said:
It is certainly a copyright violation. The person who takes the photo owns it, and nobody else can use that photo without their permission. Also copyright of photos lasts for 70 years after the death of the photo owner, so royalties can continue to collected long after the original copyright owner has died.

You should at least let the offender know he has broken the law and give him the opportunity to remove the pics.
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I assume you got permission to use the GoldenEye photo for your avatar ;-)
 
Do you think the seller might be trying to defraud people, e.g. sell fakes? If not, drop it, or E-mail the seller and say what he is doing isn't very nice.
 
I had this happen years ago. I paid for professional photos for a product I was selling a lot of. Ebay didn't care, and even suggested the photo wasn't mine to begin with.

I paid for professional photos. From now on even with hobby photos on ebay, I always use a watermark.
 
that would be my least concern in my life...once you put it on the internet anyone can use it...you know google right ? :P
 
Cheepo said:
Do you think the seller might be trying to defraud people, e.g. sell fakes? If not, drop it, or E-mail the seller and say what he is doing isn't very nice.
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I don't doubt the rounds are genuine. I just wondered if there'd be any regrets I'd have later months/years down the road) if I didn't address the issue now.

But I did decide to let it go.....it's just that, like I mentioned previously, the seller has the gall to put their logo on someone else's (my) picture. I think if it weren't for that dick move by the seller, I'd not even have bothered raising the concern here.

Thanks for your feedback. I am dropping it....not worth my energy. In the future, I will put a watermark on any photos of mine that I think are worth the effort.



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