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