If I have to re-use old pictures, I re-crop them to a slightly smaller size ( a few pizels smaller.
I crop the old photo from the upper left corner, INWARDS (down and right) a few pixels, then re-save it to a new directory I call "SAFE".
This causes the image information to be different at the beginning of the file.
The new image file will no longer be identical to the old, and the checksum will be different.
It's a quick shortcut.
The way I see it, listing the same photos in the same categories is more a BUYER generated problem.
If you think you had disgruntled buyers who did you in, or reported shill bidding on you, or stuff like that, then those same bidders are going to be combing thru the same categories, and they are sure to notice your patterns.
Bidders who get sellers fried are no dummies, they are even smarter than eBay, so they are a formidable opponent.
I say do not list in similar ways if you suspect bidder complaints as the cause of your suspension.
If not, then I think cross-comparing image data and listing substrings betweein millions of combinations of listings would be such a huge server load on eBay that it would take the CIA's Cray supercomputers to accomplish in real-time.
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