clarksville
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posted on January 6, 2002 11:16:07 AM new
I agree with mitzee. Your images with your logo can be cropped. With your image supplied on this thread the item can be used satisfactory even after cropping.
Might want to do like I do. I have my logo running across the widget with some transparency so I don't block the widget completely.
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bh010296
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posted on January 6, 2002 12:24:42 PM new
I see that he cancelled all bids and then the auction. His reason was that he has to get a new picture. 
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clarksville
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posted on January 6, 2002 12:31:30 PM new
I wonder how long it will take him to find and steal another image of the same bubblehead.
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kiddo2
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posted on January 6, 2002 02:36:40 PM new
I think everyone is being petty..BIG DEAL using a pic!!..They are usually NOT copyrited ...can you even legally PROOVE it is yours and not one YOU stole first??!! So petty...anyone is welcome to my pics if it will save them a little work once in awhile, as long as it is the same as what they are selling...You guys need to lighten up a little...Jeeze..a 10 second NON professional with a digital off a 7 day auction of a mass produced item???...oh my...guess you thought it would make it to the Museum of Fine Arts and you would live off the residuals??...!! where is the ebay brotherhood?? Shame on ya'll..You are the ones that need to get a life in my book! BTW...years ago it was considered OK to "share" any pic not copyrited on ebay!..Now , it seems ya'll think you are Picassos..
WHOOPS...sorry folks...just realized AW charges 10 cents for every pic used off site... no wonder no one can be nice anymore!..Bad deal AW..you should either look the other way or make them impossible to copy...WE ARE PAYING FOR THE SERVICE NOW!...I wonder if the thief would be kind enough to rename the pic, it would make a dif? I humbly retract my offer to use my images since AW makes money off of it from my pocket! I put up an auction on AW and then relisted the same auction using ebay...yup, AW charged 10 cents an image when I am actually on the unlimited images plan when I use AW!
[ edited by kiddo2 on Jan 6, 2002 03:00 PM ]
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SunnyStudios
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posted on January 6, 2002 03:49:14 PM new
I don't think the complaint is about "stealing" the image. It's stealing bandiwidth that's the problem.
Some sites charge for bandwidth or excessive use of bandwith.
This is not just on AW.
So if you direct link to the persons image instead of right clicking and saving it on your own hard drive, then uploading it to your own server or image hosting service, then the person you are linking the picture is getting charged.
But besides the bandwidth issue. I haven't had the problem myself, but I think that if I went to the trouble to buy a camera, take the picture, edit the picture and put it on my auction, and then someone just took the lazy way out and swiped my image after my time and effort, I probably would be a little ticked!
The Edge Graphics
www.theedgegraphics.com
Sunny Studios
www.sunnystudios.com
Got Web?
www.gotweb.org
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ilist4u
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posted on January 6, 2002 05:01:28 PM new
kiddo2....You'd be ticked off if the person using your pictures was costing you money now wouldn't you?...richierich and sparkz were right...my AW statement shows me getting charged for every auction he listed using my pictures stored at AW...I guess it would be ok if I picked your pocket whenever I like? Your post seems to say you don't care if someone steals from you...if you don't understand this then so be it, seems if the majority understands it is wrong, Ebay even makes it clear...Update, by the way, the seller contacted me to say that he is apologizing for the whole incident and says he didn't know that taking others pictures was illegal and won't do it again...
Billy
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clarksville
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posted on January 6, 2002 05:10:03 PM new
If his other auction images are lifted will he do something about them too?
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clarksville
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posted on January 6, 2002 05:16:47 PM new
kiddo You do have a point about image hosts making money off of our images. I had an auction over two years ago, immediately deleted the image for the widget from the host. This last fall I stumble upon the url in my files and low and behold it was still there. Which makes me wonder what exactly does happen to our pics? And what do they do with them? JFYI
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barbkeith
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posted on January 10, 2002 04:05:08 AM new
I had to bump this back up. Check out this "ended early" auction. It's #1686710999
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ccaswell
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posted on January 10, 2002 05:12:37 AM new
barbkeith ....
That was great, I laughed so hard, I fell out of the chair......... I bet he learned a lesson that he will never forget.
I've used other's pictures in the past but have always emailed the person and asked if they would mind me making a copy and useing it in my auction.
Particularly if its something I've bought and realize its not what I thought or wanted and have decided to relist it.
I've never had a fellow seller say no to date. Its just plain, simple down right common courtesy to ask.
chc
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clarksville
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posted on January 10, 2002 12:34:19 PM new
barbkeith thanks
ccaswell a little detective work revealed the seller to be a college student
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sun818
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posted on January 10, 2002 01:28:23 PM new
http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=428079&id=428079
Same thing happened to me. A seller from Latin America hot linked to my auction image for months! It was apparently his hottest selling item. My copyright is stamped in the center of the image but that did not stop him. I edited my image with a BOLD RED text saying "50% off and free Express Shipping" in Spanish. That finally got him to end the auction.
But wait, it gets better. A few weeks later, I get an e-mail from tech support at the my web host. Apparently, all the hot linking this seller did with my image got my account flagged. They said hot linking images was against their acceptable use policy. Makes sense when one image took up 10% of your allowed bandwidth. They gave me 3 days before my account got canned.  I switched to a different host, but what a pain because one seller stole an image. Moral: If you're going to steal, use your own bandwidth.
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ebstuff
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posted on January 10, 2002 01:46:02 PM new
A bit off subject but...
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Ilist4u, what new service are you switchin to...
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Im just starting to use this service and maybe I should look some more.
[ edited by ebstuff on Jan 10, 2002 02:07 PM ]
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BananaSpider
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posted on January 10, 2002 02:07:20 PM new
Sue,
For Outlook, open the email then click View and then click Options. You will see the email headers there, just cut & paste.
BS
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dejapooh
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posted on January 10, 2002 02:42:33 PM new
I went to 1686710999
, but I saw nothing unusual. What was it? What was so funny?
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clarksville
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posted on January 11, 2002 10:36:35 AM new
dejapooh well for one thing the first image to show up in the description was calling the seller a "thief" and several of the other images had one ugly guy instead of the product.
He did relist but it has been removed this morning and he is now NARUd. His feedback from a NARUd user looks suspicious.
He had downloaded the stolen images onto his college computer. I was able to view his college webpage which had his name and other info
[ edited by clarksville on Jan 11, 2002 10:42 AM ]
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