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A seller by the name of brothery on eBay has an auction listing which is using my photos. I did not authorize the use of those photos and I notified eBay's VeRO program to have the auction delisted unless the seller removes the images.
I don't mind if a seller tells buyers to "read this review" with a link to my site. That's okay, IMHO, and some eBay seller in France did that for his auction. It's a different thing when someone uses my photos in the auction. Some of my online friends saw the auction and sent me emails asking if I was selling my guitar.
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From: South East England
RE: Seller on eBay using my guitar p... (in reply to ChiyoDad)
The guy probably just put flamenco guitar into a google images search and thought yours were the nicest!
But I think what is wrong is that when you sell on ebay you are supposed to put a picture of the actual guitar for sale, not just a picture of a guitar. So I think you are right to challenge it Chiyo.
RE: Seller on eBay using my guitar p... (in reply to ChiyoDad)
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And what is exactly the damage he caused you?
I's not always about damage, believe it or not. It is very misleading to post photos of some other guitar and not the one being sold. I'd never willingly buy an item knowing that the seller is not posting photos of the very item for sale. Yes I know not everyone has a camera but if the seller isn't upfront about not having photos of the actual item for sale then that usually steers me away.
*edit* I too would like to know how the interior photos were taken!
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Joined: Jun. 30 2007
From: San Francisco Bay Area
RE: Seller on eBay using my guitar p... (in reply to ChiyoDad)
Thanks for the replies. I actually got emails from people asking me if I was selling my guitar since they had read my blog and recognized the images.
It is misleading to use another person's images rather than to use an image of the actual item. eBay recognizes these issues and that's why they set-up the Verified Rights Owner program. It happened to me before with another guitar that I owned and reviewed.
It's different if a seller uses stock photography (like from Yamaha's website) and stock photos are often easy to recognize because they sometimes have an air-brushed "perfect" look. eBay sometimes provides these from their product database and clearly labels them as "Stock Photo".
Regarding "looking the same", the answer is (surprisingly ) no. Depending on the resolution of the images, the actual item that they buyer receives may look notably different from the photo. There were two Yamaha CG171SF's at Guitar Center over the weekend and one was notably less-attractive than the other; it had bookmatched dark "dimples" in the wood grain. That guitar has been hanging on Guitar Center's wall for more than two months.
The internal photos were taken by using the "Macro" mode in my digital camera. I just set the camera into that mode, loosened the strings of my guitar, placed the camera into the soundhole, pushed the shutter-button and let the auto-focus feature do all the work. Tilting the camera up gets a nice shot of the bracing. Rotating the camera with each shot will give you a panoramic view of the inside of the guitar. You can also just shoot photos from just outside the soundhole as long as there is room for the flash to penetrate.
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) no. Depending on the resolution of the images, the actual item that they buyer receives may look notably different from the photo. There were two Yamaha CG171SF's at Guitar Center over the weekend and one was notably less-attractive than the other; it had bookmatched dark "dimples" in the wood grain. That guitar has been hanging on Guitar Center's wall for more than two months. 
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