I'm frustrated! Bought pixelated photos

[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....

[SuzeQuze]

Stay away from that seller!

[GODDESS6]

hi melanie, would you mind pming the name of the ebayer to me?~
i have a sneaking suspicion of who it is, but as an huge ebay photo buyer myself, i would like to add them to my yukky stay away ebayer list~
please & thank you!!!~

[SortaSavageLike]

This is why we must all put our faith in SortaSavageLike.

Even though his Photobucket is a mess right now.

[michelej1]

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

[gold-dusted]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

OMG...I was shaking my head all the time while looking at this photo. It's UNBELIEVABLE that people are asking for money for photos like this!

[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?

[JeannieKartis]

sorry to hear that...I have saved photos, sent to walgreen's and had them printed, they turned out great, you might want to try that....

[camchristo]

I can't understand why people buy photos off of ebay. All of the images I've seen (except for the original photos, like the guy who bought and is now selling Judy Wong's collection), are photos that you can find in a million places on the web. Buy a decent photo printer (ours is great and it only cost $120) and print out any photo you want, high quality on high quality photo paper. No more worries about spending money on crappy reprints.

[gypsywoman]

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....

Did you try talking to the seller??...See if they would give you a refund??...Most of the ebay sellers selling Fleetwood Mac ans Stevie Nicks stuff are usually pretty good about that sort of thing in my own experience

[gold-dusted]

Originally Posted by gypsywoman

Did you try talking to the seller??...See if they would give you a refund??...Most of the ebay sellers selling Fleetwood Mac ans Stevie Nicks stuff are usually pretty good about that sort of thing in my own experience

Talking to her is like getting snow in summer. And she would NEVER refund a payment because she needs that money. By the way, she has a new account on eBay. It's blue-lamp-visions-2008. Don't buy from her!

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

This is why we must all put our faith in SortaSavageLike.

Even though his Photobucket is a mess right now.

All hail to the Photo King!

Also, Sanne, whose generosity and knowledge (and photo collection) know no bounds.