When an eBay seller steals your pictures...
   
Written by Chuck Maddox USA on 24 February 2001,
Last Revised: 2 July, 2001, 03:31 GMT
No Rights Reserved -- In the Public Domain
     

Recently an TimeZone Omega Forum regular had some pictures in a review that he had written pirated and used for an Ebay auction where they were fraudently used in a description of the watch being auctions. This is not the first time that this has happened. When contacted the seller was rude, crude and threatening...

The following is intended as an imperfect but workable solution to the problem...

If this should happen in the future change the name of your pictures to something different (do a find and replace on .jpg/.gif and put an additional character behind it or something), and then copy this file into your directory as many times as the pirated pictures and rename the file to match the original filenames...

http://chronomaddox.com/fraud_alert.gif
 
 
This should fix the seller quite quickly and teach him a lesson to boot! Of course this only works if the seller is directly linking to your photo's. It's not perfect and is limited, but it may sometimes work...
 
Cheers and enjoy!

-- Chuck

 
P.S. Please consider this graphic to be freeware and in the public domain. I claim no rights to it, use it as you will but prudently...
 

P.P.S. Ain't I a stinker? >-}