I'm frustrated! Bought pixelated photos

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by gold-dusted

Hi you all out there,
I'm pretty frustrated today. I recently purchased some photos off eBay from a seller who is well-known for selling photos again and again. Well, I just thought maybe she got wiser with the years and is selling nice photos. I got my package today and was so pissed off to see that few of these photos are somewhat pixelated. It's not nice to look at them. Ok, I paid $ 3 for one photo but that's not what I'm angry about. I mean, WHY in the hell are still people out there who are selling pixelated photos that were downloaded anywhere from the net and then printed on photo paper? I think it's not nice to rip off fans this way. I bought a set of 15 photos from her....9 from the first auction, 6 are still to come. I don't mind when someone is selling Stevie photos again and again but I'm strictly against pixelated or downloaded photos printed on photo paper!
Anyone else out there who had bad experiences this way? Or is there a way to see if this is a pixelated photo or not BEFORE bidding on an auction?? I mean when someone is writing to a seller asking about the quality...I doubt that the seller would say it's pixelated....

THATS TERRIBLE. I was burned so terribly by once when someone sold me the Rumours outtake photos, and they were sooooooooo grainy and horrible.
AND also, I bought what i thought were prints once, but also turned out to be downloaded pics printed on photo paper. I feel your pain.

[GarboSpeaks!]

Someone once sold me a photo with a watermark all over it. Makes Stevie look like she has a strange skin disease. But from the tiny online photo, I couldn't tell that it was there.

Michele


I don't know if we bought from the same seller, but I had bought this very one from a VERY reputable seller, and that's the way the slide was. It wasn't the seller per-say, it was who they had gotten the slide from. The slide was just a bogus job. Hope that helps. It wasn't a watermark....but an oddly developed or damaged slide.
I sold my (Stevie w/ chicken-pox) version some years back on Ebay stating THERE ARE MARKS ALL OVER THIS PIC cause I had found a clear version...which I always wondered about, cause if the slide had been damaged at the get go, how was a clearer version to be had?????

[gold-dusted]

Hi everybody,
first thanks for your sympathy for this experience.
Well, it seems that this person has opened a new eBay User ID. She placed a bid on one of my eBay auctions under this new name, she just registered yesterday! Weird, isn't it? I've put her on my blocked bidders list months ago and as I know it's not allowed to place bids under another eBay name when being on a block bidders list.
I don't know if it's allowed to mention the eBay User IDs here on the board. Someone need to let me know because I don't want that you are getting rip off by this person!

[xxxmx]

i can't stand dishonest people. i remember rushing to the mailbox and ripping open a package - and seeing that i received an item less-fabulous than what i'd purchased.

one question: why buy photos when there are an infinite number of free images on the internet?