eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
billythetechiein eBay Copyright Theft
billythetechieof Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom stole our 1974 Krugerrand Obverse & Reverse Photographs to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own coins, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not one of the coins he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
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 276, with 100% positive, 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
1oz 1974 Gold Krugerrand EXCELLENT Condition
This is a 1974 South African Fine Gold 1oz Krugerrand Gold Coin,
and is in excellent condition.
Will be dispatched by Royal Mail Special Delivery.
Will dispatch to UK address only.
Will accept PayPal payments only, or by personal collection.
If you have any questions about this coin please email me
and I'll reply as soon as possible.
Many Thanks and good luck
Buy it Now: £900
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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billythetechie | 280620741358 | 25th Jan 2011 | 1oz 1974 Gold Krugerrand EXCELLENT Condition | £700.00
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billythetechie | 280650517856 | 27th March 2011 | 1oz 1974 Gold Krugerrand EXCELLENT Condition | £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 bar, 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 starting price of £900.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
Stupid Seller?
This seller obviously thinks he can decieve us by listing the same item again but using our photograph upside down! Somehow we managed to identify it as our own though even though he thinks he was being clever!
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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