Someone is advertising a saddle using my photo!! Rant Alert

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I am furious!

Currently looking at saddle adverts and come across the saddle I sold before Christmas.

But it has been posted by someone else yesterday, using my photo and details.

I contacted the website and they literally don't care, and say they lady found it on another website so decided to use it and their fine with that!

What can I do?
 
If it is a photo that you took, then you have copyright over it and if they didn't ask your permission, they are in contravention of that copyright. The website is too, if they knowingly allow it to be on their site after you have made them aware.
 
I sold something on Ebay a few weeks ago, one week later and the buyer was re-selling it using my photo and even my description only she was listing it as New whereas it was most definitely used, she didn't sell it and hasn't managed to yet so she lost some dosh there silly person....
 
What's wrong with someone buying something to sell on for hopefully some profit, boysy? That's exactly what shops do!

Also OP, I'm selling a rabbit cage, found the same one online and I'm using their picture to sell mine. Furious is a strong emotion! Did the picture cost you to take it?
 
Elsiecat said:
What's wrong with someone buying something to sell on for hopefully some profit, boysy? That's exactly what shops do!

Also OP, I'm selling a rabbit cage, found the same one online and I'm using their picture to sell mine. Furious is a strong emotion! Did the picture cost you to take it?
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Nothing wrong with buying something for profit - I've dont that!!

I wouldn't mind if the person selling it bought the saddle off me - or even owns the saddle I had sold. That's no problem.

BUT it's not and their claiming they took the photo. Why sell something and use a photo that isn't their item? Surely it's misleading.
 
I bought a Buzz Lightyear for my son off of ebay a couple of weeks ago, turns out the buzz didn't have wings which the seller hadn't mentioned, so I resold it - stating in the description that it didn't have wings - and used the previous sellers photo. Saved me digging it out the box, taking a photo, uploading it to my computer and then to eBay....

If they have the exact same saddle then I don't see the problem, it must be a good photo if they have used it! Though if it isn't the same saddle and they are lying about their advert then that's different... but that's their problem, not yours!
 
The point is that it is a) polite to ask to use someone else's copyright photo and b) misleading to use a photo of a used item that is not of the actual item unless you state that it's not a photo of the actual item.
 
I just think its such a trivial thing to get worked up over, that's all :o

If you were a photographer and someone was passing off professional pictures as their own or if someone had took your watermark off instead of buying the photograph, then I'd understand!

The way I'm seeing it, you've lost nothing!
 
Not furius, but rather annoyed.

I can see you're point Elsiecat - but what has got to me is that when asked the seller is adamant that they took it, and the poor buyer will be getting a saddle that wasn't what was advertised.
 
I can understand more with a saddle or a car etc than I would with something like a phone or a games console though I suppose.
If it came with different scratches etc to the picture. Ah well, let the seller worry about it!
 
Id be a little miffed if they nicked my photo.

But I was bloody FURIOUS when I found someone using pictures of my horse to sell their horse!

They'd nicked various really good photos of my old black cob mare (who is admittedly a nice looking, photogenic horse) and used them to advertise their black cob gelding. Can only guess he looked similar?! I only found out when a friend (who was horse searching) sent me a link. I emailed them to complain and the advert disappeared a week later but never heard anything from them.
 
Wiz201 said:
Not if the item is exactly the same? I don't see a problem here:confused:
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Chances of that are slim to none though.

I wouldn't want to see a photo of what a saddle looks like, google is your friend for that and you probably already know what the saddle you want to buy looks like.

I want to see what the saddle I'm about to put money down on looks like. It's very misleading.
 
Kallibear said:
Id be a little miffed if they nicked my photo.

But I was bloody FURIOUS when I found someone using pictures of my horse to sell their horse!

They'd nicked various really good photos of my old black cob mare (who is admittedly a nice looking, photogenic horse) and used them to advertise their black cob gelding. Can only guess he looked similar?! I only found out when a friend (who was horse searching) sent me a link. I emailed them to complain and the advert disappeared a week later but never heard anything from them.
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:eek:
 
Someone used a photo of my saddle for a different advert on ebay, I messaged them , they apologised and said they had been lazy, they changed the photo - end of issue :)
 
Clava said:
Someone used a photo of my saddle for a different advert on ebay, I messaged them , they apologised and said they had been lazy, they changed the photo - end of issue :)
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That's what I hoped for but they claimed it was theirs.

I also found an advert for it on a Facebook group. The admin got involved so I sent proof it was mine, and then deleted and blocked me from the group! Said she was "fed up of gobby kids who think they're better than anyone else"... Hmm pretty sure I'm none of what they called me!
 
Kallibear said:
Id be a little miffed if they nicked my photo.

But I was bloody FURIOUS when I found someone using pictures of my horse to sell their horse!

They'd nicked various really good photos of my old black cob mare (who is admittedly a nice looking, photogenic horse) and used them to advertise their black cob gelding. Can only guess he looked similar?! I only found out when a friend (who was horse searching) sent me a link. I emailed them to complain and the advert disappeared a week later but never heard anything from them.
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I had the same last December with another national horsey mag. Except they hadn't only used a standing photo of a pony that I'd taken, they used clear photos of my child riding her loan pony!! And they had tried to portray it as a 27 yr old gelding jumping 85cm for which they were asking £3k. Total misrepresentation.
I was furious, at the fact that someone I didn't know (nobody I knew could identify either) had managed to gain access to photos of my child and copied and published them (cue swift telling off of loan pony owner). The copyright issue was a lesser priority but the only legal avenue to get the ad removed.
 
My thought would be if a sellers using someone elses photo rather than taking one themselves do they actually own a saddle at all or is it a scam?
 
JHC said:
That's what I hoped for but they claimed it was theirs.

I also found an advert for it on a Facebook group. The admin got involved so I sent proof it was mine, and then deleted and blocked me from the group! Said she was "fed up of gobby kids who think they're better than anyone else"... Hmm pretty sure I'm none of what they called me!
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If you want to go down the removal route the facebook one can be reported to facebook and they will get it removed and the other one you could try sending an invoice to the website owner for allowing a copyrighted image to be used after being requested to remove it. the NUJ fee for a small image in advertorial for 1 month is £90 which should concentrate their minds a bit
 
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