http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/reporting.php

The more claims they have the more likely they'll be investigated.

I don't agree with you there.

Ebay's policy on IP...

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How eBay Protects Intellectual Property (VeRO)
We are committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of third parties and to providing our members with a safe place to trade. We created the Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program so that intellectual property owners could easily report listings that infringe their rights.

If you are a Verified Rights Owner and want to report a listing issue, see Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements.

To avoid creating listings that would infringe on intellectual property rights:

Take eBay's tutorial on Intellectual Property Policies and VeRO.

Read eBay's Guidelines for Creating Legally Compliant Listings.

Review list of VeRO Program Participant About Me pages. Many VeRO Program participants have created an About Me page that contains information about their policies protecting their intellectual property rights.

Do not use another member's pictures or descriptions without their permission. For more information, see Item Description and Picture Theft.

Listings removed through VeRO

If your listing was removed because of a breach of the VeRO program and you believe that your listing was removed in error, eBay suggests that you first try to contact the rights owner directly. (The email notifying you that your listing had been removed should have included the rights owner's email address.) Only the rights owner understands their products and intellectual property rights. If the rights owner agrees that they made a mistake, have them email eBay and eBay will allow you to re-list your item.

Avoid having your listing removed through VeRO in the future. Review the list of VeRO Program Participant About Me pages. Participants have created an About Me page that contains information designed to help you understand why they requested the removal of your listing.

How eBay helps to ensure that listings aren't mistakenly removed. A rights owner reporting through VeRO must be registered through VeRO before reporting items to us. Rights owners sign legally binding documents when reporting items to eBay.

How your personal information may be released. eBay will never give out your credit card information, except in rare cases when required by a court, or law enforcement agency. However, eBay's Privacy Policy states, "we can (and you authorise us to) disclose your User ID, name, street address, city, state, postcode, country, phone number, email, and company name to eBay VeRO Program participants as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity."

Do you understand the rights owner's claim, understand eBay's policies, and still believe that the rights owner made a mistake in reporting your listing? If so, please email us.

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Ebay almost always protects the buyer in a payment dispute regarding anything.  I think it's worth a shot if you're worried about it.  It might get a buyer purchasing a licence or it would at least discourage them to use the images.  I'm pretty sure they'll ask for a refund and it's likely they'll receive it. 

The best thing to do in this situation would be to bypass ebay and contact the recent buyers who left feedback and provide them with evidence that the stock images have been ripped off from the microstock site.  I would explain that they need to purchase a licence to use any of those images or they could find themselves in trouble.  They would either 1) purchase a licence for any image they really want, or 2) contact ebay themselves asking for a refund. 

It's probably more likely that option 2 will occur and ebay will be forced to give the buyer back their money.  Eventually the seller will find it's not feasible to sell the item there having to pay fees for items that didn't sell.  If ebay get enough complaints and have to give back enough refunds, they'll then close the seller's account and their 100% rating will be gone.

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 25, 2010, 17:02
Why don't you have a look to your left side? Microstock poll results!

Well, as I've mentioned in my opening post, the figures in the poll results on the right of the page look promising but I've been reading a lot of negative reviews in here and elsewhee about 123, about rejections, low sales and poor disclosure of downloads.  Looking at your poll result for this month is what made me ask the question. 

I also don't know if I should trust your poll results.  How many people have voted?  Have the people that complained about low sales voted?  Have others left 123 and stopped voting?  I much prefer to get people's direct and current opinions.

Quote from: oboy on June 25, 2010, 16:57
For me 123rf is hanging right around position 6-7 with my monthly earnings. If you have signed up already with Shutterstock, iStockphoto, Dreamstime, and Fotolia, then 123rf would be good for your second wave of signups with Big Stock and Can Stock Photo. If you like to take a look at some of my stats, then you can do this here http://stock.hlehnerer.com/Stats.html

123rf is accepting editorial too and has a minimum payout of $50. If you look at their long term traffic statistic, then you can see clearly an increase.

Never hat any problems with them.

There was a time that the site was responding slowly, but I guess they have update their servers and have now a new web design. Speed of the site is now excellent.

Interesting stats oboy, surprised to see istock all the way at the bottom and I'm not surprised that DT is down there too.  DT has dropped out for me which is why I'm looking at joining new agencies.  Might check out zazzle too.  Thanks for that.

How many here have had good sales at 123RF.  I've been thinking of joining but the site doesn't give away too much in terms of downloads.  According to the Earnings Rating on the side of this page, it looks like it has potential but I've read mixed reviews about them.

Anyone here have any advice you can give me?

Hi everyone!!!

So now that I've been frisked, I can start a new thread I suppose.