Is it wrong for a seller to rip off your auction?

[English Paul]

I was just wondering what Ebays policy is on ripping off another auction. A couple of weeks ago I listed an item and now another seller is listing another figure and they have cut and pasted my description into their auction, same wording, same font - everything. Another item they have is exactly the same as something else another seller listed, description, font etc.

I don`t know whether I should be annoyed or not - it`s just plain bone idle on their part.

[steelcouch]

Know that you cant steel pictures from another auction but same description will probably fall under the same catagory.

[toys2cool]

Yeah they won't do crap,if you take the pics yeah.But not the description,I know it sucks and it's really annoying,but there's not much you could do

[highquality]

I know it's annoying. I had a MM Member steal mine word for word. Then he started using my old Avatar.

Single White Female much??

[EmergencyIan]

I had another seller steal my descriptions for GI Joe's a couple of years back and ebay ended his auctions. But first I emailed him about it through ebay, and he responded by calling me a whiny (sp?) b#$ch and with some other threat to beat me up. So, I reported the auctions to ebay and the response that he sent me. So, ebay did right, for once, and fixed his *****. I thought it was pretty cool. :smiley1:

- Ian

[Hulk]

If it were for something mass produced, like a HotWheels Batmobile, the I would see no harm in copying the listing, but an individual figure, that is very poor form.

[huedell]

Its certainly weird this stuff even happens. You'd think they'd take a second
and make it their own a bit---even IF they stole the text

[theantiquetiger]

Its certainly weird this stuff even happens. You'd think they'd take a second
and make it their own a bit---even IF they stole the text

I have stolen a few descriptions before to just use as a basic guide, but I would always change a few things to meet he item I was selling.

[MegoMonk]

I've never done this with a Mego auction, but have with others. For instance last year a freind of mince gave me a few boxes of HotWheels to sell for him. I really do not know anything about Hot Wheels, so i copied and pasted descriptions from other people's auctions, but used my own pics. Maybe the other Ebayer was not familiar with Megos and decided to copy your description for accuracy??