Cease and Desist

cheating Ebay members, this message is for you

[spaceylacie]

Stop selling other peoples' free stuff, mine in particular. You don't have permission to sell my site content. I'm giving it away for a reason(to make money long term, of course)... find your own way to make money and stop selling free stuff you find online!

This message is directed toward corrupt Ebay members only. Everyone else... go on with your business and good luck.

[Essex_boy]

That must be maddening, have you approach Ebay? Although from my experiences (someone selling reproduction as Antique) they werent overly interested.

[vincevincevince]

Perhaps there is some kind of 'G alerts' service for ebay which would alert you to future problems?

Further, adding a disclaimer to your site content to the effect of 'this is free but if you sell it you must send all the income you get to me' may either discourage them or give you a stronger legal footing to go to the small claims court for what they made from ebay (your own private sales force you don't have to pay? wow...).

[lcampers]

ebay has a department that will take off any listing of plagiarized content, just contact them with the evidence and they will pull the auction

[Junanagoh]

also message the used who is selling your stuff. Tell them that you will take legal action against them if they keep on selling your products.

If you really wanna be a hard ass then tell them you also want all the profits they have made off of YOUR products or you will take legal action.

I think you need to go with the second option. These people need a hard lesson.

[4crests]

spaceylacie...

If you have an ebay account, you can sign up for Ebay's VERO program. Just search Google for: VERO EBAY and you will find it on the first serp.

Once you are in the VERO program, you can fill out a form for every auction that has stolen your material, and the auction will be AUTOMATICALLY canceled. It works WONDERFUL. It doesn't stop people from doing it, but at least you have the pleasure of seeing their auctions removed.

[beren]

I've found people offerring copies of my client's material on websites for sale on eBay.

In every case, the sites have been running Google AdSense, so I contact Google. Contacting the seller is the last thing I want to do in this case because they will change their site before Google has a chance to catch them.

I asked at the eBay forums about alerting potential buyers so they don't buy something worthless, but there is no way to do that aparently.