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#16
Sorry--I got so outraged that I don't think I made it clear why I was posting the above in this thread. What I was trying to say is that I think ebay is getting even more lax about taking the fakes off, which is why we keep seeing more and more of them with stolen photos. But then, it seems we're restricted in what we can say about them in their community board. I'm still incredulous that I've been censored!
 
#18
i posted a thread on how to watermark photos. and once they are posted you can't edit them in the post unless you loaded them on your own server. but not thru the purseforum.
 
#19
fayden said:
i posted a thread on how to watermark photos. and once they are posted you can't edit them in the post unless you loaded them on your own server. but not thru the purseforum.
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I use Picasa to edit my photos, which is pretty basic and doesn;t seem to have a watermark facility. Is there something I can download that would work with Picasa that would enable me to watermark?
 
#20
I read somewhere that Tiffany & Co is suing Ebay.

They did some research earlier and purchase like 200 pieces of "Tiffany" jewelry and they said 3 out of 4 were fake.

Ebay says they cannot claim responsibility for what bad sellers do.

The court date is this year I think....

If Tiffany wins, I think everyone else will jump on the bandwagon and sue them, ei... LV, Hermes, Coach, etc.....


I don't see why Ebay doesn't hire people like the girls here that can spot a fake a mile away to weed through the Brands they are experts at. Sounds like it would be an easy fix....

Oh, well, I am curious to see how the Tiffany vs. Ebay case goes!!
 
#21
susan-eric said:
I use Picasa to edit my photos, which is pretty basic and doesn;t seem to have a watermark facility. Is there something I can download that would work with Picasa that would enable me to watermark?
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sorry! i don't know about that program, did you search the web for anything?
 
#22
iliabags said:
I don't see why Ebay doesn't hire people like the girls here that can spot a fake a mile away to weed through the Brands they are experts at. Sounds like it would be an easy fix....
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That won't work. How can eBay possibly take responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of items that are listed each day? I have followed the eBay-Tiffany saga as well, and I have to say, Tiffany's has no chance in he!! of winning that case. If you think about it, eBay is just a clearinghouse. They don't actually get the goods in possession. To do what you are saying (hire people who can authenticate), they would need to act like an escrow service and all sellers would have to send their stuff in to eBay's "authentication" center and have it approved before the listing would go through. It would probably cost 1000 times more to list an item, because eBay would have to hire more than 1 person to authenticate a brand (preferably a team of people so that errors are caught, and these guys would be working, presumably, full-time = full-time salaries!). There are so many designer brands out there that this is a 100% impossible endeavor. And what if these "eBay authenticators" are wrong? Would the company be able to sue them? Say, if an eBay authentication team says that this Balenciaga is authentic and can be listed, and the buyer buys and it turns out to be fake. Can the buyer get a refund from the store, or eBay, or what? As you can see, there are a lot of problems with this! Personally, I was a member of another forum and all of our authentic stuff was removed by "VERO," the owners of the copyrights in the products we were selling. Too bad that they removed the authentic ones and kept the fakes! I think that's the potential outcome: That if we get eBay to start policing, they'll take down the real stuff too.

So, in short, NOT an easy fix any way you look at it! It's a problem and I have no clue how to solve it!
 
#23
susan-eric said:
I posted in response to an inquiry on the ebay board that danielleboutique was previously discussed as a seller of fakes (she was discussed on this forum too as such) and had my post deleted by ebay with an email chastising me for violating their policy! I then tried to repost a link to the prior discussion on the ebay board of danielleboutique as a seller of fakes and they deleted that too and sent me another email saying I had violated their policy! (And believe me, I said nothing profane, etc.--it sounded just like my posts here) I then emailed and asked what specifically I had done and that I needed clarification and have so far received no response, although both my posts were deleted within a couple of minutes.
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I know why eBay removed your post: eBay does not want to be responsible if you defame danielleboutique or any other seller. That's why you need to take that discussion OFF eBay (like to PF). That way, eBay won't be held liable for helping facilitate the defamation or what-not by allowing you to post this thread on their discussion board.

Of course, if danielleboutique indeed sells fake stuff, then that's not defamation. But there's a chance that she sells real stuff (according to untrained eBay) and you can't blame them for wanting to cover their own butts in the event of litigation.

I hope this makes sense to you...
 
#24
LV_addict said:
What about the photos that are already posted? Can we change them for the watermarked ones?
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you can ask one of us to remove them altogether, then you could repost them in a response in that thread if you like.
 
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