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From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt at hort.net> on 2004.02.17 at 23:37:56(11168) > From: Tony Avent > Michael: > We have contacted ebay as well as the vendor...again. +More ---------- ebay only intervenes when the infraction has something to do specifically with ebay; they do nothing when a seller is snatching other people's images. Maybe a letter from your lawyer, on his/her letterhead might do something...that is, if you can locate the seller's address. Or, maybe a comment on the seller's rating list? Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland mtalt@hort.net Editor: Gardening in Shade ----------------------------------------------- Current Article: Battling Bambi http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening ------------------------------------------------ Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html ------------------------------------------------ All Suite101.com garden topics : http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635

From: Paul Tyerman <ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2004.02.18 at 08:07:44(11171) > >Maybe a letter from your lawyer, on his/her letterhead might do >something...that is, if you can locate the seller's address. Or, >maybe a comment on the seller's rating list? > Marge, That is a pretty good idea. I reckon if someone started putting a bad comment on each time an image was stolen from their site they'd learn pretty quickly that it didn't pay to steal images from a particular site. It mightn't sound much but if it was done each time an image was stolen it would mount up after a while (better yet if whoever it was stolen from had time to put a bad feedback up for each image every day then they'd really mount up. Sooner or later the summary for that particular person would start to have a lot of bad feedback in it (i.e the number of negative feedback would rise, which is generally the main way people see whether someone is worthwhile dealing with or not). One thing I would suggest though is that if someone WERE going to do this they set up a specific ID on ebay to do this, so that if ebay decided to delete it for doing it then your main ID wouldn't be affected. Definitely an interesting work around. It might even be worthwhile asking ebay management (from the specific ID, not the main one) whether it was OK to do it as the person was stealing images from you. They may do nothing about the stealing of images, but they might just allow that as it doesn't mean that ebay themselves have to actually do anything about it? Definitely an interesting idea, that is for sure. Frustrating when people steal images as a few of us on one of the bulb image lists found out recently when it was found that a site was taking the images from that site and cropping them to remove the copyright watermark if there was one. That to me was the real insult as it means they were deliberatly trying to hide the fact they had stolen them and really couldn't claim any more that it was "accidental". They did something when it was brought to the lists attention and a whole bunch of people asked them to remove the offending images. They honestly may not have realised that they were taken from other sites as they had their new site developed by outsiders, and I must at least commend them that they DID remove all the offending images quickly once it was brought to their attention. This is the same sort of thing except that it is a bit more difficult as it sort of falls between the host ebay and the people themselves. That is why I think a feedback remark for every picture that is stolen is such a good idea. Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Oxalis, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

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