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Watermarking Photos

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As Jazz Club has pointed out here http://hifikabin.me.uk/viewtopic.php?p=38773#p38773 posting photos of Serial Numbers on product packaging may help the ePay scammers. To help prevent photo stealing, you can 'watermark' the photo before uploading or attaching it. http://watermarkphotos.net/ makes it very easy to do and does not require any software to be installed locally. Simply go to the site, select your image, enter the text, its size,colour etc and download it to your machine. Then you can upload or attach as usual.

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Thanks James even I can do it.
Now where's that link to the emporium. :roll: 8) :smt023
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Seeing this thread reminded me of my workmate who sold a pair of B&W speakers on EBay. He called me some weeks later to show me that his speakers were already back up on EBay for sale, using his photo from his sale. We discussed it and he decided to call the guy who bought them, who told him they were still in his home and not for sale. As the photos were clearly his he contacted EBay who took the listing off. Scammers had copied his photo, so a good call by . Definitely something I hadn't considered.
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Keith,
One reason when people are selling Naim boxes only ever give the first few numbers of the serial number because you can tell what year it was made.
Give the lot and scum scammers copy.

Excellent idea James. :smt023
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Jazz Club wrote:Keith,
One reason when people are selling Naim boxes only ever give the first few numbers of the serial number because you can tell what year it was made.
Give the lot and scum scammers copy.

Excellent idea James. :smt023
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Well pointed out and I took action immediately great experience shared cheers mate 8) :smt023
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I'm not sure if Watermarking Photos makes a huge amount of difference.

Photoshop can often reverse the watermark with 'content aware fill', and on Ebay they can just cut out the watermark and then put their own one on top.

The advantage of not using a watermark is that then you can do a reverse image search and find exact copies of the photo.

The best watermark would be something very subtle that a scammer might not notice, but an ebay buyer looking more closely would notice e.g. "HiFi Kabin.me.uk" somewhere in the background.
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