Need all your help in dealing with an annoying seller who stole my picture......

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I just sold a Mamas & Papas cot on eBay last week. However within a couple of days of listing mine someone else listed one and used MY PHOTO.

Result was that various people e-mailed me asking if mine was the real one, or hers, and I suspect some people who might have bid didn't because they were suspicious about two listings with the same picture.

I e-mailed the seller politely and asked her to remove it. She replied with a rude and offensive message basically saying F off and Get a Life.

I reported it to eBay, but of course they haven't done anything about it yet, and her listing finishes tomorrow.

Sooooooooooo I wondered if anyone on here with an eBay account would fancy 'asking the question' of this buyer "Is your picture REALLY of YOUR cot, it's just that I noticed the same one on an earlier listing..."

or soemthing else just to make her realise she can't get away with this.

I feel really sorry for whoever buys it, because she is really mis-representing it by using a stolen picture...

Here's the item: Nicola Cot

Pleeeeeeeeeeease....

Yes agree - actually, can I steal your style of listing for my next auction??

Ha Ha - s/he has now added more pictures to the listing (think they're suspicious now!)

but Bl*dy Hll - the cot's not even the same colour!

I see there are more photos added now!

Probably taken them from a variety of other peoples listings.....

pmsl have you seen the extra info she/he has added???

In response to some questions by keen ebayers who live too far away to view ; here are a few more close up photos of my cot and the mattress. Hope this helps ;-)

The new pictures really do look like they are a different colour!

At least she has a bit of a sense of humour...

Have just got DH to e-mail from his eBay account to ask "why is the cot a different colour in the close -ups - is it beech or birch ? "

Now if there is anyone here from Scotland, don't you DARE go and buy it as a result of this thread....

Am still annoyed eBay didn't remove it though...

if they have a camera why not just take a pic of the cot themselves??? Unless their house is really really messy

Ah, but if you look, you'll see that they have just photo'd close-ups of the end panels, so they have not had to build the whole thing (which IS a bit of a faff).

Anyway, that's assuming they ARE their photos

oh go on, someone ask if she has a side view of it, we'll get the wall colour then

oh yeah - what a cheeky cow.

i emailed again asking to confirm colour and also to ask why in first pic cot is empty and second pic cot is made up!!

do you think she might wonder why she's had 320 views on her counter? bet she's all excited now.

we should all watch it too

no sorry thats evil.

Tee hee - you lot are great! This is making me laugh about this now

I wonder what she'd do if someone DOES want to view it though - will she bother constructing it then?

Another photo added, you can't quite see the floor in the pic but you can see the cot isn't built.
(I've added to my watched list!)

Oh yes! PLEEEASE add it to your watch list too, just to boost confidence (only to be hopeless dashed later.....)

This IS funny - just to say that I have NEVER even ventured on to ebay - so a bit perplexed as to how it all works BUT very funny that you lot are emailing her and photos keep appearing....carry on!!

"why is the wall a different colour in that second shot?"

disclaimer

i never suggested that.

it slipped out.

No law against watching...

We'll all want to know what happens apart from anything else...

of course, of course.

reply to email was that it was light causing colour change. Then they emailed again with ....why do you care....i didnt reply and just got this reply!!!!

How petty . Item is pickup only. if the buyer doesnt think it is the same they dont have to buy it - not hard. now run along with your little friends as an ebay item is something i dont get concerned about. of course its a different room , it's dismantled now

Have added it to my watch list .

Not surprised by that response Bonkerz - very much in the same style as the response I got.

I really hope eBay do suspend them even if this auction does end up running it's course...