Ebay and Ebay fink, I pit thee. And thine.

All right, ya fuckin bluenosed scumbag. I know you’re a dickless asshole who couldn’t manage to create a good, bad or indifferent piece of artwork if your life depended on it. I know that in your drab world the greatest joy you may have is doing harm to more talented individuals.

But still, just because YOU are useless sack of shit does not mean you get to waft your ugliness about without repercussions.

I worked for DAYS on my that piece. Man, it was NICE. It wasn’t just crude stuff like you see in a lot of other digital art – I made sure that when I was through, it looked like a high-end piece of airbrush art. The background art and the way it matched the foreground was TASTY, no other way to put it – all yellows, oranges, purples browns and golds. The way bits of metal gleamed in the darkness, and the way the orange sky in the background faded to black against the shadows in the foreground, mergeing with the fleshtones of the subjects … BADASS.

And you had to fink on me because, what? There were a couple of nipples showing? Fuck you. Really. Fuck you and go to hell. I hope you die a long, painful, bitter death, attended only by tiny vermin gnawing at your living flesh.

And I pit thee, Ebay, for being the gutless corporate scumbags you are, fuck you for letting the bluenose have his way. I know, you’re just in it for the money, gotta protect the bluenoses from all that ART out there, or yadda yadda yadda fuckity fuck fuck fuck. I don’t give a shit. I know when a thing is wrong, and what you did was WRONG and there’s no amount of legal or corporate blather that’ll change that.

And it’s not like there aren’t a lot of other auctions on your site with tits and more showing. Sure, my piece of art had a couple of nipples, but it was pretty close to what you’d expect to see on the cover of a romance novel in most respects. It’s not like the nude catfighting photos that someone else is auctioning. Or the bondage oil painting that consists entirely of a closeup of a woman’s large, wet breasts. Or the many, many naked pics of celebrities like Britney Spears and Christine Aguilera, most of which appear to have been scanned from laddie mags, and some of which are clearly fakes.

Yeah, that’s right, I looked to see if there was anything like my stuff out there before I posted my auction and there was, tons of it, much of it more explicit than my stuff. I thought I would fit right in. So I know your TOS is bullshit. You just post that crap so you have an excuse to end an auction if anybody complains about it.

I’m betting that I was finked on, not by a genuine bluenose, but by a competing seller who didn’t like the fact that my stuff was original and unique unlike all the cheap ripoff artists who are selling the same sets of stuff scanned from magaziens and so forth. Ebay is full of scum like that, just go to their community boards and check out all the reports of people stealing each other’s stuff and the like. Reporting a competitor’s auctions as TOS violations just to make things a little easier for oneself is right in line with the nasty, weaselish behavior that’s typical of so many Ebay members.

I’ve sold a fair amount of stuff on ebay and expect to sell a lot more. Because I’ve been creating artwork for 20 years, much of it well within TOS. And today all I’m gonna do to vent is post this post here on the Straight Dope – and look hard for another auction site for that really TASTY piece of art I created. Yahoo has one, I believe, I just might check 'em out. No reason I can’t make money off more than one auction site.

But I do mean it when I say fuck you Ebay, and Ebay fink. Fuck you very much.

So…can we see the art you’re ranting about?

Does eBay’s TOS agreement explicitly forbid the showing of nipples in artwork to be auctioned on its site?

Sorry I had to obscure it somewhat with that “Image” stuff which really damps down the color, but I have found that anything people can get for free on the Web, they will …

I dunno, but if they were gonna strike stuff for nipples, they’ve got a long line of stuff to strike before they get to mine. A LONG line…

I’m sorry mods, in my previoius link I neglected to make it a two-step link as provided in SMDB policy … pisses me off because I made up a link and then forgot to link to it. So could you delete the previous link, please?

Here’s a proper link to the artwork in question

Bluenose or not…

Do you have permission to use Britney’s and Christina’s images in a commercial space? Especially in that sort of image. They’d have every right to sue you until your grandchildren had to pay them money.

Not that you specifically asked me to but it’s a little hard to get behind a rant of a person who didn’t familiarize himself with eBay’s TOS, potentially violated them and then got, what basically amounted to, a slap on the wrist. Arguments that are basically constructed of a ‘if they can do it and get away with it why can’t I’ attitude are a bit hard to support.

If you were finked on by some puritan ‘think of the children’ dork, however, yeah, fuck 'im.

[sub]I am not a prude nor do I play one on the Internet.[/sub]

Once again, if Britney or Christina want to sue me, they’ll have a very, very long line of people doing MUCH WORSE things with their images on the internet, for commercial gain. I suppose they COULD sue me, but as my pockets are not very deep and my stuff isn’t a direct steal of the images (i.e., I didn’t paste their faces on top of some woman in a three-way or whatever) I don’t think I’m likely to be Target Numero Uno.

Actually, as I understand our legal system, I can be sued by anyone with lots of money for whatever reason they like, and go broke trying to defend myself in the process LOOOONG before they feel even the tiniest twinge in their pocketbooks, so I may as well obey the Hands-On Imperative.

You don’t have to get behind the rant. I didn’t do it for support, I did it to let off steam. Given all the other stuff that people are doing on Ebay, I think I was unfairly singled out. You don’t believe me, go do a search on Ebay for “nude” or “erotic” and see what you get. You’ll get a LOT of stuff.

Yeah, because that makes it so right.

Wow. Thats special. Can you do dogs playing poker?

[mom] And if all the other amateur soft-core pornographers jumped off a bridge, would you do that, too? [/mom]

Dude, it’s a violation of Ebay’s TOS and uses the women’s pictures without their permission. You broke the rules. You got busted.

What are your moral or ethical objections to my artwork?

Why am I so sure that if you thought I were a hot cheerleader with enormous breasts, you’d be praising my work to the skies?

First of all, all the other amateur soft-core pornographers ARE jumping off a bridge, and making money at it. I oughtta be able to get some of that action, too.

Second, yeah, I broke the rules, got busted. So I ranted. It was a good rant, and I enjoyed it. Now I can go on to more productive activities. You got a problem with that?

I took a shit last night that was more artistic.:rolleyes: You want to make yourself little jackoff pictures in Photoshop, that’s fine, but don’t put that garbage on eBay. Did it ever occur to you that Christina and Brittney are human beings who might not appreciate having their images used that way, especially when it’s for your profit, you fucking prick?

One other nitpick. I didn’t use the women’s pictures. I used their images. You will find no pics of either of them ballgagged and standing posed as they are, with breasts that size, anywhere on the net, nor with that background nor shaded exactly like that. If I’d just “used their pictures” I wouldn’t be nearly so pleased with my results.

That’s actually quite humbling. I’m sure you’re just full of such artistry.

You call THOSE jackoff pictures? Why, the Web is FULL of pictures of real women doing ALL SORTS of incredible things to encourage people to have orgasms, and the notion that you would compare my trifling project with THEIR courageous artistry just makes my blood boil!

Christina and Britney are human beings I am sure. But I have to inform you that my work is hardly out of line with the images they have projected of themselves. Christina, frex, has posed in skimpy lingerie handcuffed to a shower rod. As mentioned previously, one of Britney’s hits is “I’m A Slave 4U” and she’s posed in various states of near nakeddity, as has Christina. I’d say I’m following a fairly well-ploughed way, and it’s Britney and Christina who’ve done the plowing.

Thats Art?

Not really what Id call it… sleazy trash that belongs in a garbage bag more like.