eBay banning watermarks on images!!!
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Hah, yea seems that way.
They already have a policy on board to try and prevent text in images but they still encouraged active watermarks to protect user owned images, it now seems they have gone back on this are now requesting no watermarks, no matter how subtle, will be allowed at all.
Further investigation and comments from other members suggest they are selling it as an Amazon style 'catalogue' system with details and images to make it "easier" for customers to sell a product, however I honestly think they will eventually want to go one step further and start cutting out the ebay sellers and buy/sell direct much like Amazon do...
Considering the amount of foreign sellers using UK fulfilment sellers I would be extremely worried moving forward if your a seller simply buying and selling generic products from overseas, it's just a matter of time before this business model is not workable if your registered/based in the UK.
They already have a policy on board to try and prevent text in images but they still encouraged active watermarks to protect user owned images, it now seems they have gone back on this are now requesting no watermarks, no matter how subtle, will be allowed at all.
Further investigation and comments from other members suggest they are selling it as an Amazon style 'catalogue' system with details and images to make it "easier" for customers to sell a product, however I honestly think they will eventually want to go one step further and start cutting out the ebay sellers and buy/sell direct much like Amazon do...
Considering the amount of foreign sellers using UK fulfilment sellers I would be extremely worried moving forward if your a seller simply buying and selling generic products from overseas, it's just a matter of time before this business model is not workable if your registered/based in the UK.
I spent 3 days last week removing all personal data, phone number / facebook links, from all my listings, nearly 900 items. Now this. Brilliant. Not entirely sure what a watermark is ? all my pictures are taken on a background with my ebay shop name on it. Cant wait to re photograph everything. What a ballache.
addsvrs said:
I spent 3 days last week removing all personal data, phone number / facebook links, from all my listings, nearly 900 items. Now this. Brilliant. Not entirely sure what a watermark is ? all my pictures are taken on a background with my ebay shop name on it. Cant wait to re photograph everything. What a ballache.
In this case it means visible text, eg a URL across the photo to stop other sellers using it, or at the bottom so people can attribute it. (The latter can of course be easily cropped or cloned out)addsvrs said:
Not entirely sure what a watermark is ? all my pictures are taken on a background with my ebay shop name on it. Cant wait to re photograph everything. What a ballache.
Watermark is a translucent mark across the photo, difficult to remove. Stuff written on the background, comparatively easy to get rid of.Heres why, the userbase only have themselves to blame.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
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Algarve said:
Heres why, the userbase only have themselves to blame.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not sure what that has to do with watermarks?https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
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