Thank you Dusty, I have just returned from faxing my "Notice of Claimed
Infringement" affidavits to EBay's VeRO program office.

I hope it does some good. One of these people is already giving me the same
run around as Sue reported and another is doing some comic posturing and
rationalizing of his own.

It is my understanding that it is up to me as the owner and publisher of my
site to obtain written permission from the owners of pictures and other
content before I publish them. I believe this to be a far more prudent
course of action than requiring owners of property to prove it is theirs
before I remove it. I think it is far better to fess up and apologize when
caught. That is what I would do, er did... but that's a story I will never
tell or even hint at.

I suppose Xi Wang gets the prize. Sadly, it has just been pointed out to me
that the owner's manual prohibits space aliens living in one's head from
being given out as door prizes, so I will have to humbly apologize for
offering a prize that was not mine to give. I can only hope Xi feels
somewhat less disappointment than I do at this turn of events.

"dusty" wrote in message
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"Al" wrote in
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Orchid-Plant-Pha...abilis_W0QQite
mZ7710887740QQcategoryZ42218QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've bought from this jirk and his plants are bare rootless dried out and
almost dead and shipping is thrown into a boc with a few strands of
schreaded paper and sent regular parcel post so that they get beat up even
more. Oh yeah one even bloomed, i guess from shock, and it wasn't even
what
I bought. right if I sent it back and payed even more shipping he says
he's
replace it, I may be crazy but I'm not stupid.

As far as stolen pictures you might report him, check out this link
http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidenc...s-vero-ov.html