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I just PWNT a guy on ebay stealing my bandwidth...

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Man.... you're much nicer than me. I'd have put something up there that would have gotten him banned. Then sent eBay an email complaining about the 'offensive images' on his auctions.
 
Should have asked for $30 or $40 for the use of bandwidth if you changed it back... Something reasonable.

"As you are using my bandwidth without my permission, I at least am going to control what image is seen. If you wish for me to pay for the bandwidth and allow you to choose the image, please remit $40."
 
That is about the funniest thing I have seen in a good while, worth the click.

Trying to picture myself browsing ebay and finding that, I would definitley be like, WTH. lol
 
I stole someone's pic one time. Uhhh I guess I forgot to save to disk and upload it to my site to use my bandwidth so that person changed one of the pics to an anus w/ the "stick." Uhhh. Had to say I received a few emails about my listing and eventually it was removed. The funny part is eBay live chat claims they cannot edit a listing after it has been listed + with bids. They said all I could do is end the listing... Also it took him over 5 minutes to find the damn anus + "stick" picture. I have no idea why, but he looked over my listing atleast over 6 times and eventually saw it. And typed ok...... or something like that.
Anyways it was eBay live chat, the most worthless eBay customer service.
Also eBay eventually removed the listing completely whereas the live chat agent couldn't do jack. Thus another reason why eBay live chat sucks.
I felt embarrased... lol.
 
I saw someone else doing something similar - hotlinking images of an item which they were selling for maybe $50. Well the owner of the original image replaced it with "$30 at whatever-store.com" So you open up the auction, are greeted with an opening bid of $50, and a picture telling you where to buy it cheaper.

Aah, the dangers of stealing.🙂

Someone was hotlinking to a 152KB image on my webserver, and using it as a background on her site at Myspace. I was nice and replaced it with something saying essentially, "Don't hotlink" - she's now hotlinking to a 400KB image on someone else's server. Guess I should have either explained "This is what hotlinking IS. Now don't do it."
Or used obscenity.

She's totally ignorant as far as making good sites goes. She's got an auto-start audio file in the page - that, along with the huge background image, her page is over 600KB.
Hotlink - bad. HUGE background images - bad. Auto-play sound - bad.


To the OP: You could replace that animated GIF with a PNG file (smaller than GIFs🙂) saying outright "This user steals images and coding from other eBayers."🙂
 
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