How do sellers get away with it?!

[Kaz]

If you want to report an ebay seller, better to use a buying ID instead of a selling ID, get better, quicker removal results.

When using a selling ID it gets looked on as reporting a competitor.

[DREAMGLASS]

Ebay will only remove an item listing if it is a suspected counterfeit, or unauthorised item if it is reported directly by the verified rights owner, or their legal representative. If they didn't have that process in place, one of your competitors could maliciously get all of your listings removed.

You have to be careful about claiming items are false without having definitive proof of that, otherwise you could find it is YOUR business venture that ends up in the courts for defamation. A friend of mine had negative feedback comments left on eBay claiming his brand name products were fake. He contacted eBay offering receipts showing the items were genuine, but eBay refused to remove the feedback without a court order. Instead he took both the person leaving the feedback to court as well as eBay. Both were found guilty and both were fined and ordered to pay the court costs. Slander and libel can carry quite heavy penalties in the courts.

Rather than bleating about whoever is doing what, perhaps those hours would be far better employed in improving your own business ventures?

No personal offence to anyone........

[busybusybee]

I know what you all mean, ive been asked to do picture's of people etc and refused to do it, i get some sarcastic comment's but i dont want to screw up a new venture for the sake of a few quid, problem is these people are selling them by the thousand's! Slightly annoying when were trying to earn a decent living without getting a fine through the door! I even heard a story of a guy was asked to do a calendar for a car club (Ford car's) and Ford wouldnt let them as the copyright of the cars image belonged to ford! Even though the picture's were of the club member's car's! How ridiculous!

[jamescork2]

Hi,

Copyright can be a nightmare to understand all the legal implications and so on. In short, don’t use copyrighted material as other people have mentioned, if caught can cost you an arm and a leg. I tell people and have it written on my cards that I cannot accept copyrighted material, if I think it is, and most of the time you can tell I will not copy it.

Jim.