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[Dragon]

I was checking up on my ebay auction and on one of the pages, it says similiar auctions to look at or something. I came across an auction and the seller's auction was exactly like mines but added some of his words to it.

His Auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260006765106

My Auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230004764602

Also look at the title and sub title.

 

[Mirage]

Wow... he even copied your font and colors.. I'd report that to eBay if I were you. They should have no problem deleting it pretty quickly.

 

[redchinsu]

Wow! that's wrong but the person is new and maybe he don't know or read the listing rules. I would email that guy and let him know.

 

[Mirage]

He did email him and apparently it was a "no go." Nice to see you pop your head in here RedChinsu. Hope things are going well. :-0

 

[Dragon]

It seems like his auction is still up. For now on, I guess I will just have to have no right clicks on my auctions to prevent something like this from happening again.

 

[Mirage]

Well, people can still go straight to the HTML and grab it there.. There's no sure way to stop it unfortunately.

 

[Dragon]

Ebay sent me an email saying the auction got pulled.

 

[Mr_Snipes]

That's good. At least eBay is trying.

 

[leopard22]

Hey, Dragon, that sucks. I'm glad eBay finally got their act together and pulled the guy's ... um .... auction

I write reviews for a website and some lady in Australia has been pretty much copying my reviews with just a few differences (probably enough to scrape through copyscape) ... it's annoying, but the guy in charge doesn't want to do anything about it. Her site is pretty much a non-entity anyway I guess. Still, I'd like to let her know she's not fooling anyone (or at least not me).

Glad you did try to email the guy to see if it was just a dumb, know-nothing-about-ebay type of mistake ... but even better that eBay did their job right.

 

[Mirage]

That's unfortunate leopard. Have you tried sending a C&D (cease and desist) letter to this lady? I don't know how Canada works with the Australian government on copyright infringement, but there might be something you can do. Maybe speak to a lawyer if it really is bugging you, but your employer probably won't want to pay for that.