eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
bigtomcat771977 in eBay Copyright Theft
bigtomcat771977 of Zalesie, Poland, stole our 2007 Australian Year of the Boar Kilo Gold Coin Obverse & Reverse Photographs to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his own coin. Totally dishonest.
He failed to state or warn potential buyers he had stolen our high quality photographs, in fact falsely claiming that "this photo" (sic) is the actual item you will be receiving. This is deception.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 13, according to eBay.
eBay Copyright Thieves
Many eBay vendors use our coin photographs to sell inferior quality coins on eBay. These eBay members are dishonest and should be avoided.
We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.
Sample Listing
Welcome to my auction. Sold coins from my collection,
If you have any question write will certainly try to answer
1000$ Year of The Pig
Nominal 1000$
Metal Gold 999/1000
Weight 10/oz
Year of issue 2007
PAYMENT:
Direct Bank Transfer
Shipping insured = 550$
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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bigtomcat771977 | 320604149118 | 14th Nov 2010 | Australia 1000$ Year of The Pig 2007 10/oz Gold PP | $25,500.00
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What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold bar images on the internet. We strongly object when lazy and dishonest people decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, doing so in competition with us.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, he is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
Price
The seller was asking for a Buy It Now price of $25,500.00.
Whatever the item "sold" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.
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