By selling on eBay you're essentially allowing the world to steal your pictures and text...

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I've been in the mail order book business since the early 80’s and I’ve owned a website on the internet since 1998.  At first it was great, I no longer had to produce a catalog, and the world was good… Then the big boys started taking over the search engine placement until, now small websites just don’t get any use-able placement (unless you’re eBay or Amazon)… The bulk of this post is about eBay’s more current policy encroachments…  I've very carefully written each and every description I use, and painstakingly scanned in and produced excellent photos, using great effort to edit my pictures so they're absolutely perfect...  About 5 years ago I started selling my books on eBay and at that time you could use watermarks on your photos and eBay's policy was that the practice of stealing other dealers photos and/or descriptions was not allowed... Now I find their new policy is that any and all info or pictures can be used by any dealer (and eBay) essentially giving the world carte blanche to all the hard work I've put into my product descriptions and the pictures of the books I sell... In the real world it is illegal to use other dealers pictures and unique descriptions, but through eBay's new seller agreement that law is rendered null & void...  In fact eBay itself can (and often does) steal your descriptions and photos for their product catalog…   My question is why does eBay feel it's appropriate to perpetrate this ruse on the world, other than (of course) their gluttony for monetary gain...  I know eBay is known for their disregard for dealers (given their feedback policy), but when will this wanton hatred for dealers end, and when will other internet selling entites (auction or not) either take over the market and/or force eBay to wakeup and realize the bulk of their policies are an abomination on mankind…?  Dealers of the world unite, find and list other selling opportunities that treat dealers with respect (quick before eBay makes a policy about that) and let’s all migrate there and live happily ever after…

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/images-text-policy?id=4240

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