eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
michael-kanzler in eBay Copyright Theft
michael-kanzler, of München, Germany, stole our 1974 Krugerrand photographs to use on eBay, and failed to give even us a credit for it. Totally dishonest!
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 4 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
Krügerrand 1 Unze Gold 1974 Münze South Africa Rand !!!
1 Stück Krügerrand 1 Unze (oz) Feingold aus dem Jahr 1974. Die bekannteste Anlagemünze der Welt Münze ist in sehr gutem Zustand. Versand nur innerhalb von Deutschland.
Google Translation
Krugerrand 1 ounce of gold coin 1974 South Africa Rand!!!
1 Each Krugerrand 1 ounce (oz) of refined gold from the year 1974. The
popular bullion coin in the world coin is in very good condition.
Shipping only within Germany.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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michael-kanzler | 260493055030 | 21st Oct 2009 | Krügerrand 1 Unze Gold 1974 Münze South Africa Rand !!! | &euro1
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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 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 images of a 1974 Krugerrand, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was not his own photograph.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
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 &euro1.
He would probably get 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.
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