Return of the picture thief?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:06 pm

Martin,
Were you aware of this?....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0071846478

Emma

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:35 pm

Thanks Em. I just registered with E-bay and sent this message to the seller:

That's a nice looking Clown Loach. I should know, I took the photograph. Why are you using a photograph without my permission? The fact that you have the cheek to include one with my name on it is no excuse.
Are you not misleading potential purchasers? This is not a photo of one of the actual fish for sale and therefore represents a possible attempt at selling specimens of lesser quality.
Please remove this photo immedeately before I report you to E-bay and go and steal someone else's if you can't take your own of the real fish.
Furthermore, for the information of potential purchasers Clown Loaches are not "easy" to keep and in fact somewhat sensitive fish that require substantial amounts of room and meticulous maintenance of their aquaria.

Martin Thoene, Toronto, Canada.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

Martin.

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:40 pm

You 'Tell em' Martin!

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:47 pm

Nice one, Martin!
Some people have got such a cheek.

The fact that they are also giving out misleading information in regards to their upkeep is disgusting.

Emma

Mark Janssen · Post by **Mark Janssen** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:14 pm

Martin Thoene wrote:go and steal someone else's if you can't take your own of the real fish.
Martin.

telling people to steal? is that not illegal?

well a picture isn't a big deal next to this:

orriginal: http://aquavisie.retry.org/Database/database.html

copycat: http://www.aquafarmhoutepen.nl/Content/ ... %20(3).htm

he stole the whole freaking site! only did not use the ugly background... and most of the pictures he also used (also one of mine and a couple of friends and even one of the old loaches site...)

Mark in Vancouver · Post by **Mark in Vancouver** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:55 pm

I notice the second link is down now, Mark. Maybe justice prevailed.

shazam26 · Post by **shazam26** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:27 pm

I really don't appreciate how these ebay sellers like to call fish 'items'.
Picture thieves

You know, you wouldn't get away with taking somebody elses photo and using it as your own on lavalife

Glad you gave him a verbal whipping. "Very easy" to take care of.
PFFT! I wouldn't go NEAR clown loaches with a 40 foot pole, not until I'd at least gotten a few years down with loaches first.

Definitely not an 'easy' fish. Ebay can be so seedy sometimes!

angelfish83 · Post by **angelfish83** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:41 am

shazam26 wrote:I really don't appreciate how these ebay sellers like to call fish 'items'.

I agree. I much prefer the term 'units'

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:38 am

I see Martin's picture is still there!

Mark Janssen · Post by **Mark Janssen** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:02 am

Mark in Vancouver wrote:I notice the second link is down now, Mark. Maybe justice prevailed.

copy past whole line it's not done unfortunatly

http://dieren.marktplaats.nl/aquaria-en ... %2FwCqczwC

(copy whole link)

the middle picture of a clown i thought that i have seen it here before...

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:09 am

I'm almost certain that picture is not from here. In the past few weeks of doing the site updates I've looked at so many pictures that I now have this database in my head. If I've seen a picture before, I'll know in a heartbeat.

However, although the picture is not one from here, my internal recognition systems tell me that the photo might be from the same source as this:

Note quality of the photo, colour of fish and similar gravel.

This picture has been on LOL for some time, but without a credit, so I don't know the source.

Martin.

Hell Fire · Post by **Hell Fire** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:20 pm

That really is bad. you know you can write to ebay and they will take it off him etc. they really are giving rubbish info on Loachesd. With that kind of auction everyone will be getting them and mistreating them!!! may ask a q like what size tank lol

sophie · Post by **sophie** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:31 pm

off-topic, I know, but the second clown from the right has tubercles showing, no?

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:52 pm

looks like

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:09 pm

Yes, sophie. I can see it. It's wearing tubercules.

Martin.

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