Ebay seller stole my pics!

I have some auctions up and another seller stole and resized my pic! This is an auction for the double thumb lincoln and I took alot of time to get a good photo through my loupe. You can see the exact marks and highlights on his pic as mine. I am going to put my seller ID on future photos, I sent a message to the seller to tell them to remove the pics, I can't seem to find anything on the ebay site about this, is this reportable? What are the odds of ebay doing anything about it?

 

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Thanks! I finally found the link at the bottom of his auction to report it!

 

Absolutely reportable and they will act. However, the only person who can report it is the owner of the pictures that have been stolen. i.e.-YOU

 

Stealing someone else's picture is just plain rude! I hope they pull the listing.

 

What shall we do about this conundrum ??!

Prepare the pear !!!!!

 

Yikes! That is quite the instrument of destruction. It reminds me of a funny story about a pampered chef apple peeler and a small child determined to peel an apple with it.

 

Report it if it really bugs you, but you could also let it slide.

 

And he would do that because?

 

don't sweat the small stuff

 

Danr that is hardly small stuff by using someonelse picture of a coin to represent a coin you are trying to sell in my book represents fraud.

 

Let me see. Someone stole his pictures and that same someone is fixing to steal from some poor buyer, but we should not "sweat the small stuff ". Pardon me if I do not agree with your definition or you conclusion.

 

it is reported, we will see how long it take for action, I also put a notice about in my auctions warning other potential bidders. I agree, not small stuff to me. Theft is theft.

 

I don't think it is small. Someone is using your photos to commit fraud on another and you are aware of it. By not acting it is almost criminal as well IMHO.

 

So you think the guy does not have the coins to sell? I was thinking that he just does not know how to take a close up.

 

What about taking mint photos off of the Mint website. Tons of people do that.

 

If that is the case then he learns a lesson not to steal someone else image if it was fraud then some buyer has just been saved some grief. Either way it is not on. You want to use someones work then ask them.

 

And if it bothers the mint then the mint should report it. But I am not the mint, and I don't appreciate someone using my work to take money out of my pocket, besides, with our thumbnail pics the same bidders may confuse us.

 

I had the same thing happen to me. but someone had crack my home network and listed a coin on my own Ebay site. I had shut down my wireless broadband and go back to the phone jack DSL

Hex they were tiring to sell my 47 O&S Morgan set.that has been in my family since 1901 when my grandfather came over from Italy

 

Did you manage to catch them?