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cheeky2180 in eBay Copyright Theft
cheeky2180 of ARUNDEL, West Sussex, United Kingdom, stole our Mint Condition 1875 Netherlands Gold 10 Guilder Obverse & Reverse Photographs to sell his own coin on eBay, without our permission, 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.
It looks like he also copied the descriptive text from our page.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 49, with only 93.3% 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

Dutch 10 Guilder Gold Coin - 1875
1875 Willem III Dutch Gold Coin - 10 Guilders
The gold 10 guilders of 1875 is a such single-year issue. It was the first year that 10 guilders were issued for Willem III, from 1876-1889 inclusive a different design was used.
A beautiful coin and a wonderful addition to any collection.
I am offering this at a far lower price than it is worth.
Happy Bidding!

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
cheeky21802506940366838th Sep 2010Dutch 10 Guilder Gold Coin - 1875£150

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 a starting price of £150 for his coin.
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.
The item sold for £165, which means that the cheeky bastard would get at leat £8 less than the coins gold content, even before PayPal fees. If the buyer has any sense at all he would return the coin for a refund and leave a negative feedback. This rarely appears to happen.

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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We already have a page naming and shaming dealers using our images without permission. It's time we did the same for eBay, although if we include them all, this could be a very long page.

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