Thought you guys with all your worries would enjoy this.

I was looking on EBay at the XK8 Jags for sale. Came across on one that looked like a pretty nice car, not as nice as mine however. In the description he had photos supporting his claims on work that had been done. Such as having had the cam chain tensioners replaced. The support photo to prove they had done the work was one of the pictures I took and published with my write-up on replacing the secondary tensioners. That was done six or seven years ago and has been a sticky ever sense. And I mean that exact same picture. I thought it looked familiar when I saw it.

You never know what these guys will do on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-Jaguar-...VZjnye&vxp=mtr

 

Hopefully he has changed them and just used your pick to help his sales pitch.

 

I had a similar thing on eBay. I listed a 4.0 X300 AJ16 throttle body for sale on eBay and took a pic of it. I saw MY pic on another seller's advert for a throttle.

The seller even had a copyright 'water-mark' embedded in the pic as theirs!!!

I still have that throttle with the serial number so if I ever list mine again and get a threatening message I have a leg to stand on!!

SCREW THEM.

bob

 

Ya' got to laugh.
Claims to have owned the car 'for several years' yet the last owner change was 12/2015 according to the history.

You can also still see the original green shock behind the pic. of the new rotor...

 

You need to be proactive:



Graham

 

Why does that ebay users monika look familiar to me?
california_coventry
I'm sure I've seen it on here somewhere...................

 

What if he didn't change them and the buyer believes he has. Personally I do not believe he has. Just a typical salesman game of cheat the buyer.

 

I think they did the same thing by putting a description right on the picture. My safety net is that the picture is in my sticky thread with a date on it. Think I might have a talk with EBay about this little activity. I don't believe they did the work and will sell the car with a failure waiting to happen.

If anyone else has had to contact EBay I could use some pointers on doing that.

 

Photo and text (=description) theft are violations of eBay policy. I've had other seller's auctions cancelled by eBay in the past because I was able to prove that they stole my photos and/or description from an auction that I had run. Here's the policy. I'd imagine that it's a bit more complicated when the violator steals your photos from places other than an eBay auction that you had run.

 

When all the other things are also pointed out to Ebay, (the shocks, tensioners and the ownership claims) I think they'll pull it as a fraudulent ad.
Provided of course it hasn't sold yet.