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

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

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Bencolem

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Wednesday 4th July 2007
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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

Bencolem

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Wednesday 4th July 2007
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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???

Bencolem

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Wednesday 4th July 2007
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Aarrgghh, it's too late. My mind is tainted for ever. Nooooooooooo.

Bencolem

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Thursday 5th July 2007
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Well it might have taken a rather sideways and unexpected turn of post(!) but the end result is the ad does seem to have been removed. So thanks to all (some more than others!) - its been, err, educational!.

Edited by Bencolem on Thursday 5th July 18:52

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