Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions - Page 97

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Originally Posted by sns23 

You are the copyright holder. You took the pictures, therefore, you are the author. A copyright was created the moment the picture was created in a tangible form (saved as electronic file on your memory card).

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Originally Posted by VLSI 


I'm not sure if this is serious? I really don't know the photography copyright laws, it just irked me a bit. I did report the listing, but it will probably end before ebay even does anything about it.

I was pretty serious. How effective the DMCA request will be is kind of a question mark. You may want to look into it. If you send it to eBay, they may take down their listing right away. You may have to send it to the actual seller, who could easily ignore the request. I have only dealt with the issue once. I posted a really rare item on eBay and someone stole my exact picture at the same time of my listing (and undercut my price). Because their item had bids, eBay wouldn't permit them to alter the images in the listing. Instead, I took new pictures to solve the issue. It was annoying though.

Because you aren't really going to sue them, the request is merely puffing, unless you can send it to eBay.

Edit: here is a quick google that pulled up this tutorial. The DMCA takedown seems pretty easy (and free alternative)

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/1999431312/two-easy-steps-for-using-a-dmca-takedown-notice-to-battle-copyright-infringement

No idea how legally correct that info is, but thought it would help since you this is a fight in principle that would be worth it to me.

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Originally Posted by VLSI 

Thanks for the link. His auction ends in a day so I don't think it's practical that anything would get done, and I'm pretty swamped with end of the semester work so not sure it's worth my effort
later...

Dude sounds disrespectful. No apology. Never said thanks to you for helping him out. Everything was about "him". He basically admitted that the only reason he was even willing to be finished is because he sold the one he had. If he had more I am confident he would have kept the listing up with your images.

I personally don't like the all caps look, and have always capitalized the first letter of each word. I have just begun experimenting with all caps for the brand name, but I have no statistical info yet.

Hey guys,

I bought an item on eBay as a BIN, payed via PayPal immediately and received shipping confirmation later that day. A few days later I was asked to cancel the transaction due to the item being "out of stock." I was refunded my payment.

I feel like this was poorly handled by the seller who was selling an item he didn't have and sent shipping confirmation however I did receive a full credit. Although I would much rather have received the item, I did have any loss or harm.

Whats the accepted feedback in this case? I can't rate it positive because I was deceived but is it bad enough to warrant low stars in the item description? I don't want to be an ass about it.

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Originally Posted by MZhammer 

Hey guys,

 

I bought an item on eBay as a BIN, payed via PayPal immediately and received shipping confirmation later that day. A few days later I was asked to cancel the transaction due to the item being "out of stock." I was refunded my payment.

 

I feel like this was poorly handled by the seller who was selling an item he didn't have and sent shipping confirmation however I did receive a full credit. Although I would much rather have received the item, I did have any loss or harm.

 

Whats the accepted feedback in this case? I can't rate it positive because I was deceived but is it bad enough to warrant low stars in the item description? I don't want to be an ass about it.

Ask them if, since you were inconvenienced, you can get 25% off another item or free shipping. If they have something else you want, that is.