I think someone else on here had this happen to them as well. I was searching through and saw a pic that looked awfully familiar and as it turned out it was MY CAR. Someone chopped a lower grille into the picture. I recognized the houses behind the car.

I will post the original pic up when I get home.

Here is what they are selling:
06 07 08 09 Chevy Cobalt SS Bumper Billet Grille Grill - eBay (item 160509202004 end time Mar-20-11 18:55:52 PDT)


Here is the image from the ebay page:





I found it in my gallery.

 

id tell them whats up.

 

ya tell them you want your advertising fee for using your vehicle and picture to advertise a product they are selling. i'm pretty sure thats against ebay's term's and conditions as well for them to do that.

 

^^ Seriously?? I will say, just pay me $100 and you can use whatever you want lol

 

tell them an extra $50 you'll send a picture of your d*ck

 

A few eBay sellers, however, engage in an unfortunate and unethical practice by using photos from other sellers' auctions in their own listings. Not only is this a violation of eBay rules (it can get you suspended or even banned if you do it repeatedly), but it is also a matter of copyright infringement. In short, you can be sued in civil court for compensation if another seller finds you using his or her image on your auction listing. So don't do it.

from Don't Steal Photos From Other eBayers - eBay - eBay Selling Dos and Don'ts

i can't specifically locate the rule in the ebay rules but i'm at work so i'm not exactly looking too hard lol

 

you should ask for a free lower grill

 

ya, definitely wait till he/she sells a few.

 

Well, the picture they used is not from my ebay acct. It's from either here on css.net or from my cardomain.com acct.

I have a lower grille, it's the T/C grille. I was looking for a T/C upper grille. lol

 

you can't, you did not watermark your photo. I had this happen to me from MANY different vendors and companies in china and korea. One of our cars had a photo put up to display our vendors product, and someone forgot to watermark it. Within days, the picture was all over ebay and redundant website vendors. We attempted to take legal action, but quickly found out there is none to take. Without a watermark, your screwed.

 

if you look at the sellers items you can clearly see that he is using a bunch of other peoples photos

 

too many people flock around and the mayonnaise get's spilled, but the choice is up to the buyer.

 

I could put the water mark OUTSIDE of the "cropped" photo the seller has and just say he cut the watermark out.

 

really, you would think consent would come into play as the person who took the photo watermarked or not did not give written consent for them to use it. you would think that would be enough as everyone else has to have written consent to use a private photo.

 

^This

 

Do a watermark lol stick it to em

 

I'd be super pissed man, they came to your apartment, installed a lower grille, broke into your car and hot wired the lights on, and then took a picture!

LEGAL ACTION!

 

If you put photos on a public site anyone can use them, iirc

 

You guys are retarded lol who cares, sue happy society we live in

 

^ I wouldn't sue, maybe 2 people will buy it, not worth it. but if it was a giant company they should of known better.

 

Call them out on how they aren't even displaying their product actually installed

 

I would just let them know i would never put some gay **** like that on my car

 

9 times out of ten your dealing with international trade laws. If you watermark it and can prove your watermarked version is posted before "their" photo, you have a case. If no watermark is present and its posted online, its considered public use.

Honestly if they really wanted to crop it out, it still wouldnt be worth the price youd pay in lawyer fees, fortunately for us, the sponsor used their own legal team.

 

well see i did not know that lol

 

That sucks! Looks like they added it in pretty well too.