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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:12 PM
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So I’m on EBay looking at more Carbon Fiber stuff and I come across this Ad. They literally stole my photo. So Funny, however it is there product. Better my dash bezel than one of my dick pics I guess.


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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:27 PM
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So I’m on EBay looking at more Carbon Fiber stuff and I come across this Ad. They literally stole my photo. So Funny, however it is there product. Better my dash bezel than one of my dick pics I guess.

You can always send a take down notice to EBay as you are the photographer and just by depressing the shutter on your camera or phone, you own the copyright.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:30 PM
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Not bad price, hows the product?
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:40 PM
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no interest in any of your other "pics" even if they involve carbon fiber
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:48 PM
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I'd offer to let them continue to use the pic for some carbon fiber!
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:48 PM
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Not bad price, hows the product?
It’s a very high quality Carbon Fiber. And it matches the existing GM CF if you have any.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:55 PM
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I guess you should be pleased, obviously you did a good job and it looks great or they would not have used your Vette as an example.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by David.L
You can always send a take down notice to EBay as you are the photographer and just by depressing the shutter on your camera or phone, you own the copyright.
They are very nice people and have given me some discounts so it’s Ok I just had to do a double take when I saw it. It had to be lifted from this Forum because I haven’t posted it anywhere else.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 04:59 PM
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Same thing happened to me, only in my case, it was a shot of my GM installed low wing, that they were using to sell their cheap aftermarket low wing. They literally stole the photo from a post I put on this forum.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ClarkN
I'd offer to let them continue to use the pic for some carbon fiber!
The carbon fiber they're selling is most likely stolen.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 05:17 PM
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It wasn't an extortion photo of your pee wee.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 05:25 PM
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That sucks. I suppose most of us (including myself) post photos of our cars on the forum to share w/ other Corvette owners. I guess you could have put a watermark across your photos but then that sort of messes up the photos when you're really trying to share with the Corvette enthusiast/community.


Your car is actually really cool looking. See I can say nice things. LOL.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 05:28 PM
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I've had this happen a number of times with pics of mods I've purchased and posted on FB and other Forums...It's really no big deal...


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Who cares if they use your photos. I never give it a second thought when a vendor uses mine as long as it's a good product that's beneficial to anyone.
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Originally Posted by tadda
I've had this happen a number of times with pics of mods I've purchased and posted on FB and other Forums...It's really no big deal...
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin A Jones
Who cares if they use your photos. I never give it a second thought when a vendor uses mine as long as it's a good product that's beneficial to anyone.
Exactly if it wasn’t a good product I might say something but everything I have purchased from them has been top notch and reasonably priced. I hope the photo sells more dash pieces for them.
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If you agree it's no big deal then why create the post?

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Originally Posted by Kevin A Jones
Who cares if they use your photos. I never give it a second thought when a vendor uses mine as long as it's a good product that's beneficial to anyone.
I agree. I had a vendor use a pic of my '00 Vette, which had some custom wheels on it, in one of their ads. Didn't bother me - I just looked at is as they liked what I did to my car.
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Originally Posted by BryanKlingele
If you agree it's no big deal then why create the post?
This why I need to read who starts a tread before I click on it.
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Old Feb 27, 2023 | 11:12 PM
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exactly!!

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this why i need to read who starts a tread before i click on it.
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