One veteran (how many YEARS now) eBay seller continues to post FAKE NAKED PICTURES of WOMEN to make pathetic chump change.
Take out EBAY and PAYPAL's pimp percentage, and the seller makes only a few dollars, but hey, that adds up. And what's the risk? That the pinhead morons who BUY this shit might stalk Mary Kate or Jennifer? Might pester them to autograph these bogus pictures? ALL these fake images are posted as REAL. There is no PERMISSION for them, no statement "these models have signed a form of age and CONSENT."
EBAY's excuse is "we're just a venue" and "we're very busy" and "we've issued this seller several warnings..." and other examples of irresponsible crapathy. The #metoo movement obviously has a long way to go. This seller wouldn't get away with posting Photoshop pictures of Jewish Al Franken being led to an oven, or Obama about to be lynched or even Al Roker standing next to a Klansman.
But abuse women? SURE....GO RIGHT AHEAD....
PAYPAL and EBAY are two of those faceless, morality-empty Internet success stories. Complaints are ignored. Copyright owners jump through hoops only to find their DMCA's questioned and discarded. Contact with real people who can help rarely happens.
A few "don't worry, we'll take action" morons man the phone lines, wearing you down as they agree with you, hang up and then do NOTHING. A few others frankly challenge anything and everything you say, and parry any remark with "We don't discuss that" or "I can't forward this call to anyone else" or "You might want to write a letter and mail it to the main office.
MEANWHILE....
Pedophiles prosper.
The fact is that EBAY doesn't give a damn about Federal Law and whether there's a signed model release of age or consent. Revenge porn can be sold on eBay. "FOUND" and "AMATEUR" pictures are routinely sold:
Sellers don't even have to PRETEND their models are 18. They don't even have to say in their ads "models are of legal age and full information is on file." Ebay, "just a venue," claims they don't have to abide by the same laws that professional pornographers do, and have signed model releases on file.
The images above were not censored in eBay's sneaky "ADULTS ONLY" section. The fact is, people can spend all day trolling that area of eBay, never buy anything, and pull all kinds of obscene pictures onto their desktops for free.
The main area of eBay routinely offers thousands upon thousands of "nude male" gay interest full frontals, and "nude girl" images. Ebay says it's all fine with them, as long as it's in the "art" section. Graphic hardcore USUALLY goes into the"ADULS ONLY" section, but plenty of hardcore magazines, DVDs and photos don't get stopped because Ebay's "report item" link is such a joke.
Here's a seller who offers blatant images of underage boys, nude and embracing. How ADORABLE, says EBAY:
The image was reported to PAYPAL, who also supposedly has "Terms of Service" rules. Their rules prohibit material like this. A phone support person said, "This is a violation. Don't worry. We're gonna cut loose this seller within 48 hours." A WEEK LATER, and the item's still up. Another call to Paypal gets, "Sorry, we can't connect you with "Risk Management" and "Sorry, we can't connect you to the person you spoke with last week." And "Did you buy this? Was there a problem with the sale? We can't really discuss this unless you've made a purchase."
Paypal and Ebay have phone support people who are either completely stupid, or have been indoctrinated with Scientology-precision in evading all questions and giving NO answers.
Meanwhile, Ebay and Paypal take in money from anyone who wants to offer pornography. "Schoolgirl" headers involving porn are supposedly illegal on eBay, and a "report this" item has a specific category for ADULT/pedophilia, minors." Only whoever looks at this, is blind to items such as:
In the REAL WORLD of pornography, the companies scrupulously check the age of all women, check the drivers license, and insist the women pose with their drivers license and real name, and keep that information on file. They care about CONSENT, and want to make sure the women understand how the photos will be used. EBAY could care less. Paypal could care less.
ANY woman can find her images hacked and SOLD on EBAY using PAYPAL.
In fact, that's how EBAY and PAYPAL want it. They actually expect that women will be surfing all over the Net, know there's a secret "ADULTS ONLY" area of eBay, go through thousands of auction headers involving "FOUND" Polaroids and "AMATEUR GIRL" photos, and if they see themselves, send in a DMCA to have the item removed. Then do it all over again a week later when the seller puts it up again, changing the header title, or using another seller ID.
It's not just celebrities who are abused and humiliated, although THAT category is still rife with abuse. The two examples below? One is from a seller who has spent the past decade frolicking with DOZENS of new identities and is never inconvenienced for even a day when he actually gets suspended for multiple violations. The other seller has been humiliating women for over a year, with eBay phone support saying "Oh yes, we have a lot of violations. He will very shortly get a reprimand. His privileges may be revoked for a day or a week, or he might be restricted to selling only 500 images instead of 4,000." Gosh.
Yes, for over a year, this last seller has been getting away with pretending his faked-up photos are REAL, and selling them to people who are even more twisted than he is. Does eBay or Paypal care if a celebrity gets a stalker following her around showing her fake nudes and demanding sex? "We're JUST A VENUE..."
EBAY.
They seem to have the attitude, "Woman hating is ok." And "if somebody hacked your photos, or is making nasty Photoshop fakes on you, it's up to YOU to know we have a secret "adults only" section on the site, and you should spend hours every week looking through thousands of disgusting photos to see if some cretin is abusing YOU."
Is that the way it should be? It's strange that EBAY has "offensive materials" rules so that racism and religious bigotry can be easily reported. But misogyny? Even pedophilia? Use "report item" and send the complaint to "offensive materials" and too often NOTHING HAPPENS.
That includes THIS lot, up on the site today, October 2nd.
Pedophile faked images of the "Harry Potter" teen star Emma Watson? Of course...
Here's a double dose of chicanery: Jennifer Lawrence fought bitterly when her cellphone was hacked and her private pictures were thrown all over the net. It's not bad enough that dozens of websites posted the images for "shits and giggles." EBAY sellers post them TO MAKE MONEY, for themselves AND for EBAY and PAYPAL who take a percentage.
Here's a seller who not only downloaded a hacked photo and made it into an 8x10. This maniac claims it was SIGNED by Jennifer Lawrence. As if she was proud of this hacked photo and wanted an EBAY jerk to make $50 off it. (This seller has dozens upon dozens of Photoshop fake nudes ALL miraculously signed by the celebrities who are being abused!)
Though often hiding behind "we're just a venue," EBAY does shoot down many auctions when they THINK that something is wrong. If you post "one ounce of oregano, which has the same effect as marijuana," they will remove it. If you post "UN-used Panties, They Smell Terrific, Message Me for Details" the auction will be stopped on a "good faith belief" that it violates eBay rules. Why is it that THIS seller above, has been going for a year now, with obvious Photoshop fakes and hacked images?
For the same reason EBAY has a shabby record on stopping sellers who make screen captures of COPYRIGHTED MOVIES and TV SHOWS. The actresses were nude because the scene called for it, but sleazy EBAY sellers take that moment, and sell it with a voyeur prurience. How "legal" is it to take screen captures from a copyrighted film? NOT LEGAL AT ALL.
THIS seller has been on EBAY with at least 20 different aliases since 1999:
The seller has another alias for selling thousands of anonymous nude images — which could very well include hacked photos stolen off computers, and "revenge porn" posted by angry husbands and ex-boyfriends. It is against FEDERAL LAW to sell pornography without a signed model release of age and consent. This seller is doing just that. For 19 years now, he's never missed a day of bootlegging, because if he runs up stoppages under one identity, he's got another. EBAY claims they have sophisticated ways of making sure a seller can't use shills or the same computer or other computers to keep coming back. They CLAIM it, but this seller has proven over and over again that EBAY is not very concerned with protecting women and keeping a craven, woman-hating sociopath off their site.
Do they care that the women whose photos he is duping may not be aware they are being sold and their private images duplicated?
Sellers on EBAY should ONLY sell photos they themselves took as photographers. YouTube for example, has a rule that uploaders should NOT upload TV shows, movie clips, or music they do not own. They are developing ways for copyrighted material to be matched with uploads. EBAY allows sellers such as the above sociopath, to simply post thousands of anonymous images that he obviously didn't take, and for which he has NO MODEL RELEASE OF AGE AND CONSENT.
This is because EBAY has a bad attitude toward women.
Sellers should only be allowed to sell photos they took. They should sell magazines and DVDs that are from PROFESSIONAL companies who have the morality to make sure they COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAW and state on their items, "models are over 18 and their signed model releases are on record." It is peculiar that porn companies and men's magazines actually show more respect for women than EBAY does.
