Can I post the same photos on two platforms, leboncoin and Vinted?
Someone is flagging my listings on Vinted that I post simultaneously on leboncoin, claiming I am violating copyright. However, these are my own listings that I publish on both platforms. Has this happened to anyone else because Vinted is blocking me permanently? Thank you for your help.
Good evening,
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Unfair account restriction: for image rights/intellectual property infringement - #16 par Lucile
you should edit the code of your photos for those that are vinted. easy to do, that’s what I’m preparing to try multichannel
How do we do this? You have to modify the properties because I did that and it didn’t work.
Can you tell me how to do it? Is there any free software for this?
Yes, you absolutely have the right to publish your own photos on multiple different platforms.
Copyright normally belongs to the person who took the photo. So if they are your photos and your listings, there is nothing illegal about using them on Leboncoin, Vinted, Ebay, Marketplace, etc.
The problem is that automatic or abusive reporting is very common on Vinted. Some users report competing listings en masse, and automatic moderation systems can sometimes wrongly consider it to be “duplicate content” or “photos found on the internet”.
This happens especially when:
• the same photos circulate on several sites
• the photos have already been indexed on Google
• several accounts use similar photos
• listings are reposted often
• manual reports accumulate
Many sellers have already encountered this problem even when using their own photos.
To reduce blocks, some sellers add, for example:
• a differently taken photo on each platform
• a slightly different background
• an object or paper with username/date
• a different crop depending on the site
This sometimes helps automatic systems recognize that these are indeed your own listings and not a fraudulent copy-paste.
Thank you very much for the answer. I will try adding a
I automated the posting, for a single site no problem, but as I’m going to post listings on other sites, I’ll modify the photo signature to avoid this problem, because before when I manually posted listings on several platforms, I had quite a few Vinted listings that were removed telling me the photos came from the web, even though they were my photos.
Hello. What does it mean to modify the signature of photos before publication? Does it mean changing the photo properties? Or is it a signature directly on the photo like a logo or username? Do you know if adding your username or a logo to the listing prevents the bot from considering it the same photo on Vinted and on another platform?
Thank you in advance for your help​
The bot doesn’t just look at the name or the photo’s information.
It looks directly at the image.
So even if you modify:
the file name
the date
the properties
… it can still recognize that it’s the same photo.
“Modify the signature” often means:
add a logo
add your username
reframe slightly
slightly change the photo
It can help, but it doesn’t always work
Do you have any sources for what you’re claiming? Thanks 
Yes 
I stumbled upon a blog post that explains how it works well, here it is:
The passages that answer your question:
In the section « Permanent block confirmed: can you recreate an account? », they explain that Vinted cross-references several elements to identify someone, including « the fingerprint of your photos », and that to start over you need « new photos (never the old ones, which are recognized by their fingerprint) ».
In the section « How to avoid getting blocked on Vinted »: « Avoid AI-generated photos and images taken from the internet: Vinted detects them more and more and considers them suspicious. »
And this is confirmed in their FAQ at the end of the article (question about AI-generated photos).
The fingerprint in question is a hash calculated on the image itself, not on the filename. So renaming or changing the date is useless, and a small edit slightly modifies the fingerprint, which is why it sometimes works but not every time.
Thanks for your info, I just got banned twice for 3 days for this reason and for photos that had no link between them
Hello, I don’t understand, did you stumble upon an article from your own blog?
Just to check, as it’s not a very long check, sometimes sellers steal your photos, reuse them, report you for copyright, and Vinted automatically blocks your listing every time you try to republish.
So it remains to be seen if your photo hasn’t been reused by someone else.
The first one could be possible. The second one I posted and 3 hours later it was declared stolen.
If everything in the article seems like common sense, I don’t think there’s any reverse engineering of Vinted’s algorithms (correct me if that’s the case). In other words… it’s based on nothing.
@Faune, I’m somewhat inclined to agree with you… we can’t be certain about how the bots function, since we don’t know their parameters at all… there’s no communication about it from Vinted.
Moreover, it could change from one day to the next without us noticing.
It’s based on deductions from experience… mainly… at least I think so 