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This seems to happen a lot on ebay and there have been several instances posted on here just recently. Some people are of the opinion that it doesn't matter, if your photos are on the internet then anyone can use them, which I suppose is true up to a point, but I think it's wrong in instances like this.

Maybe the other seller does have the same model for sale and just can't be bothered to put it up to take a few photos so he's used yours, but on the other hand who knows? He could be pulling a fast one and what he has for sale isn't as good, or worse still he may not even have one at all - he could be using your pics, get a sale and collect the money, then disappear from ebay leaving a buyer with no camper and a substantial loss of cash. That happened to me a few years ago, though not with a big item - the seller had 'sold' the same item to seven other people, getting a total of £500 in the process. Luckily I went through the ebay process and got my money back but since then I won't buy anything unless I know the pics are definitely the seller's own.

If you've contacted the seller then hopefully he'll do the decent thing and remove your pics from his listing, or ebay might remove the whole thing. I suppose you could always add a bit to your own listing saying that you and your pics have no association with any other seller listing an identical item.

Hi Cookie 2

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