I'm sure like us you may of just got an email from eBay saying your listing is now banned for containing links, email addresses or a telephone number. Wonderful news on a Friday for shops selling personalised items whereby you need to let the buyer know where to email the photo!
And add to that the forthcoming abolition of watermarks on your images. We've had competitors blatantly copying our listing product images and our descriptions, word for word. I had to design a whole new set of images to replace them and made sure they were watermarked.
Ebay is taking many backward steps now and are rapidly becoming even more seller-unfriendly.
You need vero membership; product descriptions and images are both protected by copyright.Originally Posted by webtrekker
ebay have now gone back on it and are not abolishing watermarks
Vero, as I understand it, only comes into effect once an infringement has taken place and you fax in a Vero form with an authentic signature. Watermarking pictures should stop 90% of people from copying your image in the first place and save the hassle of going through the Vero process. Admittedly, watermarking wouldn't work for ebay descriptions though.
I have been putting an extra picture on my listings with my contatc details, so wonder if they try to get me to remove that?
In the ebay Q & A they stated that if anyone put a phone number or email in a photo they would give them a 7 day ban, be careful !
Would they not notify the seller first and give them a chance to remove the offending image, or would it be an automatic ban?
Where did they say that?
That's an interesting idea. I wonder if the technology they use to determine a watermark would be used to read text and parse it for contact info. The eBay support guy we spoke with understood our reasoning and said the phone lines were at a 55 minute wait time as everyone was calling to complain.
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