Someone's pinched my car advert and put it on eBay!

[Bencolem]

I've been advertising my car on Pistonheads for a few weeks now ( http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/176163.htm ) and I've just seen that some bugger has pinched my pics and description, modified it (ever so) slightly and listed it on eBay ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2003-VOLKSWAGEN-TOUAREG-V8-S... ). Obviously on the one hand the guys got good taste for browsing pistonheads and picking out my advert, but on the other hand this guys being fraudulent and potentially damaging my reputation! I tried 'reporting the item' in eBay but after a couple of forms it just directs to the (unhelpful) help pages. Any ideas what I can do and, more curiously, any ideas how this guys even expects to make the con work (I mean, who in their right mind would pay blind upfront to a seller they've never met for a car they've never seen, or does it not work like that?).

Edited by Bencolem on Wednesday 4th July 19:29

[Walter Wallpaper]

Maybe the Ebay seller is doing the scam where he is hoping his listing will fetch more than £22,500 for the Touareg. He then buys the car from you and sells it on to his Ebay buyer for a profit.

Edited by Walter Wallpaper on Wednesday 4th July 19:21

[randlemarcus]

If they are linking to your photos rather than having nicked them, and put them into the advert, you could always change the image that link shows. Perhaps a little Goatse?

[NiceCupOfTea]

I would just email all the bidders explaining the situation.

Either that or ask the seller lots of awkwards questions not explained by the photos and he would be unable to answer without having a car to check

PS - make the links accessible by putting a space between the links and the brackets at each end )

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Wednesday 4th July 19:28

[hugoagogo]

who's going to buy a 20k+ car on ebay off someone with zero feedback?

Edited by hugoagogo on Wednesday 4th July 19:33

[abomb1969]

Report it to ebay

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/vero-image-t...

Breach of copyright. Should get removed.

[Bencolem]

NiceCupOfTea - aha, thanks! Randlemarcus - sadly he's using eBay's image hosting so I can't follow your advise (although I like your thinking!). What's a goatse???

[hugoagogo]

google it

image search,
safe search off

[NiceCupOfTea]

ebay will have created separate pictures.

OK, so what questions can we ask that "she" won't be able to answer?

Just asked her if she has any pics of under the bonnet

[NiceCupOfTea]

hugoagogo said:

google it

image search,
safe search off

DO NOT DO THIS!!!!

[falcemob]

Why not ask if you could veiw it, or get someone to ask for you and see what he says.

[Bencolem]

Aarrgghh, it's too late. My mind is tainted for ever. Nooooooooooo.

[ferrisbueller]

NiceCupOfTea said:

hugoagogo said:

google it

image search,
safe search off

DO NOT DO THIS!!!!

OMFG

WTFIGOT?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Whatever you do, don't imagesearch "tubgirl"!














No, I said DON'T!!

[Marian]

hugoagogo said:

google it

image search,
safe search off

[jim..c]

Oh good god. I've got to eat my dinner now...

[PieroW]

Let Ebay know, it is definately another Nigerian scammer hoping to receive a deposit off some naive ebayer for car he doesn't even own! Can't believe people are still bothering to try this on.

[David Godfrey]

Marian said:

hugoagogo said:

google it

image search,
safe search off

agreed, note to self to read whole topic before using google
edit: there are some very sick people out there!

and sucks that someone else is using your pics, if there linking perhaps you could watermark your pics?

Edited by David Godfrey on Wednesday 4th July 20:20

[David Godfrey]

Marian said:

hugoagogo said:

google it

image search,
safe search off

agreed, note to self to read whole topic before using google
edit: there are some very sick people out there!

and sucks that someone else is using your pics, if there linking perhaps you could watermark your pics?

Edited by David Godfrey on Wednesday 4th July 20:20

[Parrot of Doom]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Whatever you do, don't imagesearch "tubgirl"!














No, I said DON'T!!

Hai2u!