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A Company On Shark Tank Stole My Product Photos, Using Those Photos To Sell Their Own Products.

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I own a custom party supply business (selling custom cupcake toppers), I mainly sell products on Etsy. Two years ago I found a product via Google Shopping using my listing photos stolen from my Etsy shop. I clicked on the product to see who the seller was, I found that it was the Potato Parcel, a company featured on Shark Tank.

I messaged them asking them to remove the images; I also gave them the option to pay me for the photos or to pay me to recreate photos for their own use. The ghosted me after I explained the situation, they ironically took down some of the photos, but weirdly uploaded different photos of mine from my Etsy shop. Life got busy, and I just checked their website again, they are STILL using my product images to sell some of their products.

  1. I'm familiar with cease and desist letters, how much would this cost me to pay a lawyer to send them a letter? I'm a small business, and I'm afraid I could get myself into a situation that would cost me several hundred if not thousands of dollars.
  2. I find it so petty that this company is stealing my images. Lets just say....I'm slightly in the mood to be petty back. What are the changes I could get any financial compensation for this? I could have lost customers by them ordering from their site instead of my Etsy shop.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for reading this.

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