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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves

herbs_and_wellness in eBay Copyright Theft
herbs_and_wellness of East Setauket, New York, United States stole our 1867 French 20 Francs 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 3778 with 99.6% 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

1869 - 20 Francs - .1867 Troy Ounces Gold
I've started the bidding at $265, which is the melt value of this coin at time of posting (3/9/2011). Picture is a stock photo, but I think the one I have is actually in better condition than the one in the photo. I would say the coin up for auction is in very good condition to be safe, but I suspect it may be brilliant uncircluated (sic).
Shipping is free to the United States.
20 Francs.
Total Weight: 6.4516 grams
Purity: .900 Gold
Net gold content: 0.1867 Troy Ounces gold
(1 Troy Ounce = 31.103 grams)
I just purchased this back in August of 2010, and I still have the invoice from a major gold and silver retailer. I will include this invoice when shipping the coin to you so you can be certain this is a genuine gold franc.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
herbs_and_wellness15057458018715th March 20111869 - 20 Francs - .1867 Troy Ounces Gold$265.00

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 bid price of $265.00.
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.

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We normally report all examples 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.
In this case, we did not report the item to eBay as the seller removed our photographs, and replaced them with his own before the auction closed. We have however noted him here, and will monitor him for future infringements.

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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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herbs_and_wellness's eBay Listing Using our 1867 French 20 Francs Photographs
herbs_and_wellness's eBay Listing Using our 1867 French 20 Francs Photograph

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