eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
intim01 in eBay Copyright Theft
intim01 of Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States, stole our 2008 Canadian Vancouver Olympics Silver Maple photographs, failed to tell buyers that the coin pictured is not the one they will receive.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 873; with 100% positive according to eBay.
eBay PowerSellers
According to eBay Power Sellers are 'the pillars of our community'. How come such honest eBay members steal our copyright images?
Pillocks of the community might be more appropriate!
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.
Two of 29 Listings
To save time and space, we have only shown the first and last of his 29 similar item listings.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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intim01 | 280370836781 | 17th Jul 2009 | 2009 VANCOUVER GOLD & SILVER MAPLE LEAF COINS
| $1,120
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intim01 | 290342910148 | 24th Aug 2009 | 2009 VANCOUVER GOLD & SILVER MAPLE LEAF COINS
| $1,000+
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Sample Listing
2009 VANCOUVER GOLD & SILVER MAPLE LEAF COINS
CANADIAN BIDDERS
WELCOME
(THE COIN PICTURED IS A 2010 BUT YOUR COIN WILL BE A 2009)
YOU ARE BIDDING ON:
THE 2009 VANCOUVER WINTER
GAMES GOLD & SILVER MAPLE LEAF COIN SET
THE SET CONSISTS OF 2 COINS. YOU GET THE 2009'S WHICH
COMMEMORATE THE 2010 GAMES. ONCE THE GAMES ARE HERE THESE COINS WILL BE HISTORY. THE GAMES WILL BE HELD FROM FEBRUARY 12 TO THE 21, 2010. THIS SET IS A LIMITED EDITION. THE GOLD COIN IS LIMITED TO 50,000 COINS.
HERE'S WHAT YOU GET:
1=1OUNCE .9999 GOLD 2009 VANCOUVER WINTER GAMES 2010 OLYMPIC MAPLE LEAF COIN
1=1OUNCE .9999 SILVER 2009 VANCOUVER WINTER GAMES 2010 OLYMPIC MAPLE LEAF COIN
MORE INFORMATION ON COINS
The Vancouver 2009 Olympic Winter Games Gold Maple Leaf bullion coin is made of one ounce of .9999% pure gold and bears a $50 face value. Bearing a $5 face value, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Silver Maple Leaf bullion coin is struck from one ounce of .9999% pure silver. Both are now available through the ROYAL CANADIAN MINT's extensive network of bullion dealers.
THESE ARE GREAT LOOKING COINS AND ARE A GOOD INVESTMENT FOR ANYONES PORTFOLIO OR COLLECTION
ADDITIONAL SETS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
SHIPPING AND HANDLING ON THIS COIN IS FREE
INSURANCE IS AVAILABLE AT A COST OF $14.00 AND IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
WE ARE PROUD TO BE MEMBERS OF EBAY FOR 7 YEARS AND WE ARE PLATINUM POWERSELLERS
What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin 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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our 2008 Canadian Vancouver Olympics Silver Maple images, but failed to inform potential buyers that the coin in the photograph is not the one he owns, or that they will be bidding on. This is deception.
Sadly, it is also typical of eBay!
Multiple Offender
When we found intim0's current listing, we naturally checked back to see whether he was stealing our other images, and found that he had used our images a total of 29 time before we noticed him.
He had received feedback for 21 of the listings, so it looks as though there were 7 finished but without feedback, and one current.
Price
He used a starting price of $0.99 for these listings, and got an average of over $1,000 per lot, grossing over $30,000 for the 29 listings posted before we noticed him..
What Date?
The idiot states in his listings that you will receive a 2009 dated coin, not 2010 as shown, but he actually used the photo of our 2008 coin. What a Wally!
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 £99 for his coin
For at least two of his "feedback" items, he would have got more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal fees.
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.
Double Stupid or Double Stubborn?
We did report the above listing, which eBay removed. The stupid idiot decided to repeat his listing, still using one of our photographs. It happens more frequently than one would expect, leading us to believe that eBay are negligent in explaining copyright abuse to their members, and to believe that eBay are implicit co-conspirators in this abuse.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 232; with 99.1% positive according to eBay, which all goes to show that you cannot rely on the eBay feedback system as any indication of the honesty or integrity of the member.
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