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Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 03 Jul 2018, 15:46
by anniecov
www.ebay.co.uk/usr/splendid_88

I found 12 of ours in their listings where they had nicked our pics of Amazon and created a listing using them on eBay. If you sell a popular mug on Amazon there's a chance you will find some of yours here too. I've had 8 listings removed already. eBay aren't the quickest to respond....

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 03 Jul 2018, 16:41
by GoonerGary
Just sent a Vero report in for 6 stolen mug images. I will have to look later to see where else they are selling them.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 03 Jul 2018, 17:14
by anniecov
I've messaged a couple of other sellers on eBay that I know. One of them has had about 30 images nicked off Amazon.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 10 Jul 2018, 22:14
by GoonerGary
I had to send in a reminder to Ebay vero, but they removed all my stolen images within a few hours.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 15:42
by anniecov
I got all ours removed within a few days. Every day they seem to nick a few more. Lord knows why eBay haven't shut them down completely.

I did an image search on a few of their listings. It seems they haven't just nicked images of Amazon. It's Etsy too. I found one seller on Etsy where they had pretty much stolen images from every listing.... over 200 of them.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 16:50
by webtrekker
So, are your images watermarked? All mine are.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 16:53
by anniecov
That doesn't stop them, they just cropped out our watermarks.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 18:10
by GoonerGary
He put his own watermark on them.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 20:02
by webtrekker
My watermarks are right across the images and can't be cropped. Extremely difficult to Photoshop out too.

Re: Do you sell mugs on Amazon? Chinese eBay seller ripping off 1100+ images

Posted: 12 Jul 2018, 10:12
by GoonerGary
webtrekker;133058 wrote:My watermarks are right across the images and can't be cropped. Extremely difficult to Photoshop out too.
Take a look on Alibaba express etc, you'll find 1000s of stolen images with watermarks belonging to the original owner, they don't really care.