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crunk383 in eBay Copyright Theft
crunk383 of TRUSTED SELLER, USA, United States, stole our 1327AH / 1909 AD Turkish 100 Piastres of Abdul Hamid II to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell "expert" advice about where to buy gold. 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 238 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

Gold Coins & Bars From REAL WHOLESALERS!
Genuine wholesale pricing are NOT public info and you will not find them free by searching the internet. Scam artist know where you search. Major search engines contains thousands of fake wholesale list. REAL Factory Authorized Wholesalers usually do not advertise in the Search Engines they don't believe it's worth their time and effort to advertise to small home-based business owners. They WILL work with you if you can find them, though.
This list contains geniune (sic) wholesalers. It gives you complete contact details; company name, contact person, phone & fax numbers and email addresses. It also tells you what products each supplier offers. I will send this eBook by postal mail. Sending it by email or by any other digital delivery method is not allowed and violates eBay policy. These are the very same wholesalers ebay power-sellers are using. The very same wholesalers amazon sellers and other online stores are using.This auction is for a gold and silver wholesale list. This auction is not for the gold or silver bar pictured. The gold pictured is one of the products in this wholesale list.
Delivery will take 2-4 weeks via registered mail. Please contact me after winning the auction if you would like it delivered sooner.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
crunk38327061516966330th Jul 2010Gold Coins & Bars From REAL WHOLESALERS!$0.99

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.
In this particular case, crunk383 is purporting to have some expertise, and deep inside knowledge of the gold bullion market. He does not even know enough to respect copyright, and is simply just another chancer salesman, trying to make another dollar our of people who know even less. If enough stupid people send him $0.99, he will probably sell yet more "expert" guides about more stuff he knows nothing about.
It also looks like he stole most of his other pictures from other websites too.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of $0.99 for his revelations.
He also stated the prices we ask for similar sets on our web pages, but got it wrong, because our prices fluctuate constantly in line with gold bullion prices.

Where?
We rather suspect this tricksters address. We could not find any city or town in the USA called "Trusted Seller", and we also think "USA, United States" is rather tautological.
We wonder why the guy is going to such trouble to avoid potential buyers knowing where he actually lives, and what he has got to hide?
We think crunk383 is such a fake, he can't even spell genuine.

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.
We should probably delay reporting this item until a buyer has sent some money. This may sound cynical of us, but if enough greedy buyers got conned, they might kick up enough fuss, go to the media, and get eBay the publicity it deserves. It is not our job to act as unpaid policemen for eBay.

Auctiva, eBay & Copyright Theft
This guy uses Auctiva. We know from experience, that when eBay removes the directly infringing item, the Auctiva Gallery thumbnail persists, and is repeated and included in many, sometimes all, of the sellers eBay listings. eBay either do not know or do not care about this, although we have told them, so eBay never advise their member about this (poor customer service, we think). Auctiva also don't appear to know, although we have told them as well.

Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

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Copyright Thieves on eBay
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.

Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites

Other Scams

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All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

crunk383 eBay Listing Using Our 1980 Turkish 100 Piastres of Abdul Hamid II Reverse Photograph
crunk383 eBay Listing Using Our 1980 Turkish 100 Piastres of Abdul Hamid II Reverse Photograph

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Our 1982 Gold 4 Coin Sovereign Boxed Proof Set Photograph
Our 1982 Gold 4 Coin Sovereign Boxed Proof Set Photograph

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