eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
jenkinsthesecond in eBay Copyright Theft
jenkinsthesecond of MANCHESTER, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, stole our 2004 Gold Proof £100 One Ounce Britannia Reverse Photograph to sell his own coin on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not one the coin 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 1774, 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
£25 GOLD BRITANNIA 2004 PROOF QUARTER OUNCE GOLD COIN
25 POUND BRITANNIA COIN
ISSUED BY THE ROYAL MINT IN
2004.PART OF A PROOF SET STILL
IN ORIGINAL CAPSULE IN MINT
CONDITION.CONTAINS ONE
QUARTER OF AN OUNCE OF SOLID
GOLD.PAYMENT BY CHEQUE
PREFERRED OR COLLECT IN
PERSON.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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jenkinsthesecond | 400151570986 | 6th Sep 2010 | £25 GOLD BRITANNIA 2004 PROOF QUARTER OUNCE GOLD COIN | £0.99
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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 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 £0.99 for his coin.
It "sold" for £217.88.
After eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, he would have received only 97% of the intrinsic gold value, without any possible PayPal charges, the seller would have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
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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