Ebay seller using my photo's to sell their product, should I be annoyed?

**frantic** · 27th June 2014, 09:24 AM

I had a double take a few years ago looking in the paper as the picture of the "view" from the block for sale was from my front yard across the park to the lake. The blocks actual location was over the hill looking into a +65 retired demountable village. The agent got a serve from me and actually all the local realtors have had to use the line in bold local/location shot x Min walk

**101RRS** · 27th June 2014, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by CJT

As I said to him, my only concern was that is showed the vehicle details and my house (old house anyway) in their advertisement.

As your vehicle is plastered all over the net for all to see - including vehicle details and your old house, I am not sure what getting this seller to pull the pic down will achieve with respect to your concerns.

The reality is that you have to assume that anything posted up on the net is available for anyone to use - irrespective whether copyright is attached.

Garry

**chopper** · 27th June 2014, 11:20 AM

That's why you should always comb your hair tuck in your shirt and clean and repaint your sandshoes.

**Naviguesser** · 27th June 2014, 11:29 AM

And have clean underwear

**gossamer** · 27th June 2014, 12:41 PM

the photo on google is from opposite lock???
Discovery 2 Xrox Bar | Xrox Bars | Opposite Lock
your on their webpage as well

**Mick_Marsh** · 27th June 2014, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by gossamer

the photo on google is from opposite lock???
Discovery 2 Xrox Bar | Xrox Bars | Opposite Lock
your on their webpage as well

No. The ebay fellow has already changed the image.

**Basil135** · 27th June 2014, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by garrycol

As your vehicle is plastered all over the net for all to see - including vehicle details and your old house, I am not sure what getting this seller to pull the pic down will achieve with respect to your concerns.

The reality is that you have to assume that anything posted up on the net is available for anyone to use - irrespective whether copyright is attached.

Garry

Note quite...

We had some photos taken for work, that were used on our company website. About 2 years later, I found those same photos on another company's site.

They just happened to be one of our competitors.

A quick phone call, telling them to expect a letter from our lawyers, and their site was pulled post haste.

It turns out that their web designers decided to take a few short-cuts. However, when you are stealing pictures from a very large, multi-national company, you really do need to be careful about what you do with them.

**CJT** · 27th June 2014, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by garrycol

As your vehicle is plastered all over the net for all to see - including vehicle details and your old house, I am not sure what getting this seller to pull the pic down will achieve with respect to your concerns.

The reality is that you have to assume that anything posted up on the net is available for anyone to use - irrespective whether copyright is attached.

Garry

Garry,

I understand that and I am aware of the use of image from Google / internet etc. being common and that almost all images posted to forums / web pages can be found.

The only real concern I had, was the principle and courtesy of using my image. I felt that if they where going to take random pictures of the internet to use to sell their product that is fine, but courtesy to me would be to at least black out the number plate irrespective of it can be found elsewhere.

Also, when the seller replied to my question on Ebay saying that yes, it was a vehicle that they did...

And besides, it was a dodgy photo of the D2 only half done

It could have at least been a good photo...

I'm not worried either way, the guy was nice to deal with and happy to use another photo instead and has.

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