Dishonesty - Keysborough Aquarium

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Razzo

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G'day Mates,

A member on another site alerted me to the miss use of one of my copy righted images without my permission. Even worse is the blatant dishonesty in their marketing of their product. They have stolen one of my images of one of my wild caught Cyphotilapia gibberosa Mikula and are deliberately using my image to make consumers believe that they are purchasing the following product:

Cyphotilapia Frontosa zaire blue "Tembwe" WC Colony 2M+7FCyphotilapia Frontosa zaire blue "Tembwe" WC Colony 2M+7F. Cyphotilapia Frontosa zaire blue "Tembwe" WC, direct imported from Germany. One colony only, very nice.

This dishonesty is extremely disturbing to me for many reasons. I have decided to fight this by bringing their deception to light.

The contact information for this company is:
Keysborough Aquarium
(03) 9798 3668
info@keysboroughaquarium.com.au
214 Cheltenham Road Keysborough
VIC 3173

Please beware of the deception employed by this seller. I trust this forum post and the others I have planned should be enough for potential buyers to discover their deceptive practices on most internet search engines world wide.

Here is a link to the ad in question.
http://keysboroughaquarium.com.au/in...product_id=230

I have also saved a screen shot of their web page for later publication.

Best regards,
Russ
 
Squirtle919 said:
The owner does import fish monthly from Germany, They also do sell zarie blue regularly. The use of your image thats a different story but I dont see how that is making them dishonest?
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Let me first say, they did remove my image after I requested them to do so (without apology).

I would have to answer you question with the following:
1. Taking another persons property without permission.
2. Using that image for commercial gain.
3. Using that image to make people believe the fish in the image is what they were going to purchase (without a disclaimer that the pictured fish is not the fish for sale).
4. I believe that to be a deliberate miss representation (after removing my image, the price of the group they were selling was reduced by $600.00 - on the same edit).
5. My fish and the fish they are selling are from different collection points (which is another example of miss representation).

My group was a hand picked all star group by another importer (my friend) for his own personal private collection over the course of many imports and hundreds of fish. My alpha male, the image that was "stolen" is a rare specimen and quality wise, is in a league of his own. So, to use an image of exceptional Zaire specimen to market another Zaire is problematic for me.

So, to answer your question:
1. Stealing my image was dishonest.
2. Using my image to misrepresent what they are selling was dishonest.
3. Stealing and lying fit my definition of dishonesty.

I hope this was an isolated incident. They have been "called on the table" over this and I hope they do not repeat this incident.

Sincerely,
Russ
 
sorry to hear, but is there anyway you can prove the pic to be yours, have a pic/have a pic of the pic they used? there can be many ways they can disprove you... you gotta look into this long and hard.. many people use others pic, as long as it doesnt have your name on it/copied righted and its online....... anyone will use it..
 
^ In this sort of case, it wouldn't be impossible... one way, would be if the owner of the original kept the High Res pic...

For example when i upload photos, i always use lower res, or cropped photos... that way in a dispute, all i have to do is ask the person who stole my photos, and claims them for their own to show me the original high quality pic, and when they can't and i can, well... guess who must have taken the original pic...
 
I agree, I was going to say most online shops dont actually take pictures of every single one of the fish they are selling, normally they come off google.

I dont know, a lot of people down here visit before they spend 2000$ on fish and view the fish first, even for interstate they always request more pictures before buying the fish.

I just think its a bit over board for just using a picture.
 
Well i fully agree with the OP.
it is dishonnest. Absolutely.
 
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