eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
cheshire764 in eBay Copyright Theft
cheshire764 of nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom stole our 2002 Guernsey Gold Proof £5 Piedfort Crown 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.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 13 with 100% Positive Feedback 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
the golden jubilee 2002 guernsey 5 pound gold coin
selling it as it is of no use to me and from what i have searched on internet for it its worth quite a bit of money. can ship item immediately. ANY PRBLEMS WITH PRICES JUST MESSAGE ME AND SEE IF WE CAN COME TO AGREEMENT.
ESTIMATED MY PRICES FROM THESE WEBSITES
https://www.thelondoncoincompany.com/face/browseme.php?pointme=10&id=875
Technical Specifications
Denomination Diameter Weight Fineness Gold Content
Five Pounds Piedfort Crown 38.61 79.8800 .9166 2.3542
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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cheshire764 | 220740634648 | 16th Feb 2011 | the golden jubilee 2002 guernsey 5 pound gold coin | £1,000.00
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cheshire764 | 220744278270 | 23rd Feb 2011 | 2002 goden jubilee gold coin | £1,000.00/£1,399.95
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cheshire764 | 220746911200
| 27th Feb 2011 | 2002 goden jubilee gold coin
| £899.00
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cheshire764 | 220747019515 | 28th Feb 2011 | 2002 goden jubilee gold coin
| £899.00/£975.00
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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 £1,000.00.
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 seller sold the coin for £800 which is absolutely ridiculous as he would have got a much higher price if he would have sold it to us.
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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