eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
kreile in eBay Copyright Theft
kreile of East Aurora, NY, United States, stole our PAMP Suisse Fortuna Gold Bar Photograph without permission, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same bar he was selling.
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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
1 Oz .9999 FINE PAMP SUISSE FORTUNA 24 KT GOLD BAR
You are bidding on a 1 troy ounce .9999 fine (24K) gold bar
with Assay Certificate
minted by PAMP Suisse (Switzerland)
This bar is new uncirculated and features the famous emblem of
"Fortuna"
PAMP stands for (Produits Artistiques de Métaux Précieux)
PAMP Bars are accredited as “Good Delivery” by the Swiss National Bank
and the London Bullion Market Association, PAMP 24-Karat gold bars contain
a purity of 99.99% and have been traded on world investment markets since 1979.
The bar is mounted on a credit card sized (wallet size) plastic assay (purity) certificate with serial number, (not necessarily the serial number pictured). As one of the world's leading precious metals refineries and fabricators, PAMP is particularly well regarded for its pioneering spirit, as evidenced in 1977 by the introduction of a wide variety of decorative designs on the reverse side of its ingots, also known as 'small bars.'
Payment will be through Paypal and shipping is FREE to the U.S. only.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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kreile | 330438289087 | 17th Jun 2010 | 1 Oz .9999 FINE PAMP SUISSE FORTUNA 24 KT GOLD BAR | US $1389
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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.
Much of the "factual information" he quotes is wrong.
Price
The seller was asking a Buy It Now price of $1389 for this listing.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
Buyers could probably also buy it cheaper from a reputable and honest dealer instead of an eBay crook.
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.
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