Repeated theft of un-watermarked sellers listing photos of historic images for resale by a seller

[retromania123-7]

Can anyone assist in providing details about policy of other sellers, and, prolifically one in particular, who rips off other sellers unwatermarked listing photos direct from eBay listings, tweaks them and then re-sells them as cheap and often low-grade copies on his site? I frequently implore other sellers to add some some of watermark or sellers logo over listing photo images, but many of them simply won’t or don’t know this sort of thing goes on. I paid up to several hundred pounds in some cases for very rare or often unique postcard images that ive not previously seen in over 25 years of collecting and which have not previously been available on eBay, only to find a few weeks later a cheap copy has been ripped off from the listing photos direct and is being resold by this guy on eBay! What is eBay’s policy on this and has anyone else been affected by this, possibly and most probsbly by the same rouge seller? He’s even ripped off images from other peoples social media pages and started selling those. It’s spoiling my enjoyment of using eBay and is damaging to both buyers and sellers. Please help. 

[*vyolla*]

Only the copyright owner of those images (and there probably isn't one for many of them) can apply to eBay to get the listings removed.

Buyers who receive these items may return them (at the sellers expense) and get a full refund and leave appropriate feedback.

The feedback that you're leaving for sellers with your comments added about watermarking are not very fair on them, feedback is not a noticeboard, just message them. It's technically libellous too.

[plpmr]

Adding to the advice already given -

You cannot advise or suggest that others break eBay rules/policies and you cannot criticise others for not breaking eBay rules/policies.

Part of some of the feedback you leave others states “but a major bug bare is that this seller DOES NOT - and WON’T - add some preventative measure such as a sellers watermark or simple DO NOT COPY marking over listing photos”.

It's against eBay rules/policies to add text/watermark to images =

https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/listing-policies/picture-policy?id=4370&st=3&pos=1&query=Pictur...