New eBay photo policy?

On Aug 10, 3:42*pm, John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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Thanks for the heads up I changed my preferences.

Hugh

On Aug 10, 9:48*pm, Hugh wrote:
On Aug 10, 3:42*pm, John Robertson wrote:



I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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Thanks for the heads up I changed my preferences.

Hugh

Changed..... Thanks John

On Aug 10, 3:26*pm, KR wrote:
On Aug 11, 5:42*am, John Robertson wrote:



I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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Must be a US thing, this option isnt even shown on Australian Ebay.

In fact, most of the other settings there are locked to "yes" and cant
be changed

From what I can see option is not there on eBay.ca either. Haven't
looked at eBay consistently for a long time now.
Woz

On Aug 10, 10:44*pm, Woz wrote:
On Aug 10, 3:26*pm, KR wrote:



On Aug 11, 5:42*am, John Robertson wrote:

I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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* * * * * * * * * * *www.flippers.com
* * * *"Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."

Must be a US thing, this option isnt even shown on Australian Ebay.

In fact, most of the other settings there are locked to "yes" and cant
be changed

From what I can see option is not there on eBay.ca either. Haven't
looked at eBay consistently for a long time now.
Woz

Just logged onto ebay.com and I have successfully disabled the
"feature". Thanks John!

Woz

On Aug 10, 9:05*pm, Mark Clayton wrote:
Just use your own image hosting. *They have a new java-based
pop-up window for showing pictures, which is of course less
convenient, and makes it harder (but not impossible) to save
pictures locally. *They have no right to use pictures that you
are not uploading to their system.

-Mark
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John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#- Hide quoted text -

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I do not like the new way that ebay has of showing and veiwing
photos,
in their system for auctions either.

On Aug 11, 1:46*am, Woz wrote:
On Aug 10, 10:44*pm, Woz wrote:





On Aug 10, 3:26*pm, KR wrote:

On Aug 11, 5:42*am, John Robertson wrote:

I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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* * * * * * * * * * *www.flippers.com
* * * *"Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."

Must be a US thing, this option isnt even shown on Australian Ebay.

In fact, most of the other settings there are locked to "yes" and cant
be changed

From what I can see option is not there on eBay.ca either. Haven't
looked at eBay consistently for a long time now.
Woz

Just logged onto ebay.com and I have successfully disabled the
"feature". Thanks John!

Woz- Hide quoted text -

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I just tried unchecking the YES box and got this message from eBay:
Your preferences are not available at this time. Please try again
later.

Everything was going fine until I tried to uncheck it... Hmmm....

-Tim H.

John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos Show Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

I just checked and my default seems to have it turned off. Over to the
right it says *Show*, if I click on Show it changes to Hide and around
the middle it says "yes" to sharing the pics. I believe you want it to
say "Show" on the far write. That doesn't mean it's set to show, that
is my choice to select "Show".

Tony

Tony wrote:
John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as
follows:

"Share your Photos Show Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you
contributed the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out
page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

I just checked and my default seems to have it turned off. Over to the
right it says *Show*, if I click on Show it changes to Hide and around
the middle it says "yes" to sharing the pics. I believe you want it to
say "Show" on the far write. That doesn't mean it's set to show, that
is my choice to select "Show".

Tony

You want it to say "No" to sharing pics. Show/Hide is just whether it
displays what your setting is set to.

Sam

Sam wrote:
Tony wrote:
John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as
follows:

"Share your Photos Show Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your
pictures as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you
contributed the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out
page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we
select for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may
continue to be used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

I just checked and my default seems to have it turned off. Over to
the right it says *Show*, if I click on Show it changes to Hide and
around the middle it says "yes" to sharing the pics. I believe you
want it to say "Show" on the far write. That doesn't mean it's set to
show, that is my choice to select "Show".

Tony

You want it to say "No" to sharing pics. Show/Hide is just whether it
displays what your setting is set to.

For some reason I didn't see the "edit" box before. Now it makes sense.
Tony

On Aug 11, 5:42*am, John Robertson wrote:
I just got a note from a friend pointing out an apparently new
unannounced auto-opt-in that eBay has instituted (or perhaps I missed
the notice...(right)).

What it appears to be is that eBay can use any of your pictures as follows:

"Share your Photos * * * * Show *Consider photos I upload in the listing
process for inclusion in the eBay product catalog and other product
offerings."

His concern was that other eBay users could use his pictures to sell
their products, and even if not, the loss of control for your pictures
as I see it. There is a copyright notice that does state you contributed
the image though.

This setting (which you can change to "NO!") is located in your "My
Ebay" - "Account" - "Site Preferences" - "Share your Photos".

I turned it off...

You may want to read the following as well (this is from the opt-out page):

"(If you opt-out before August 31, 2009, none of your photos will be
considered for inclusion in this program unless you opt back in at a
later time. If you opt-out after August 31, 2009, any photos we select
for inclusion in this program prior to your opt-out may continue to be
used in the catalog)"

Yet another reason I am unlikely to use eBay to sell my products.

John :-#(#
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To add insult to injury, the prices ebay prices (for items in our
industry) has been pretty woeful lately.