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

[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....

[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.

[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.

[GoonerGary]

I had to send in a reminder to Ebay vero, but they removed all my stolen images within a few hours.

[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.

[webtrekker]

So, are your images watermarked? All mine are.

[anniecov]

That doesn't stop them, they just cropped out our watermarks.

[GoonerGary]

He put his own watermark on them.

[webtrekker]

My watermarks are right across the images and can't be cropped. Extremely difficult to Photoshop out too.

[GoonerGary]

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.