Ebay Hotlinkers!

**grim** · Aug 3rd, 2007, 3:09 pm

Does anyone know how to report hot linked images to Ebay? I tried to find the answer, their help section however is very confusing, especially when on a slow connection.

There is a power seller now using images linked from my stores to their auctions!

Ebay gets traffic = me losing lots and lots of bandwidth and server power to this crap.

**Big Dan** · Aug 4th, 2007, 2:18 am

The best I could find:

Item Description and Picture Theft

It deals with other ebayers copying images from another ebayer and has a report link. That's probably your best bet.

Block them with .htaccess:

Stop Hotlinking with htaccess. Test your Image Hotlink Protection with our Hotlink Checker from altlab.com.

Swap out the product images with something like this:

**grim** · Aug 4th, 2007, 7:21 am

I don't want to use .htaccess as there are reasons many images are hot linked that I don't mind, I could block ebay as a valid referrer though with .htaccess I guess

**Zap** · Aug 4th, 2007, 7:49 am

You could replace the image for EBay only. It's still fun! :twisted:

**labrocca** · Aug 23rd, 2007, 1:11 am

Don't bother to report the image...just change it to a giant image with your domain URL and logo. Free advertising.

**grim** · Aug 23rd, 2007, 7:56 am

Originally Posted by labrocca

Don't bother to report the image...just change it to a giant image with your domain URL and logo. Free advertising.

Yeah reporting did nothing, they wanted me to fill out paper work and join a program!

**dgridley** · Aug 24th, 2007, 12:05 am

I'm convinced eBay makes it deliberately difficult to report a problem or resolve issues.

Originally Posted by Grim

Yeah reporting did nothing, they wanted me to fill out paper work and join a program!

**grim** · Aug 24th, 2007, 8:31 am

Originally Posted by dav3us

I'm convinced eBay makes it deliberately difficult to report a problem or resolve issues.

So am I. They outright refused to help unless I filled out this special paper work to join their special program. Imagine having to join a special program for every site on the web in order to report issues!?