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miraclemerker in eBay Copyright Theft
miraclemerker stole our 1975 gold Krugerrand photograph, then omitted. on eBay, to inform potential buyers that the coin in the photograph was not the coin for sale.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 13; with 93.3% positive according to eBay.

Sample Listing

1982 1/10th oz. Krugerrand
This is a really beautiful 1/10th ounce Krugerrand. My digital camera has stopped working so this is the closest I could find, a photo of a 1982 1/2 ounce Krugerrand. The rear of this 1/10th oz. Krugerrand is slightly scuffed around where it says South Africa but that is only expected after 27 years of wear.

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 1975 gold Krugerrand image, he has almost certainly deluded himself that his coin is identical condition to the one in our photograph. It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points as grading, or that his coin may or may not be in mint condition, as implied by the use of our photograph of a selected mint state specimen.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar, and have the intention to defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, she is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.
He purports to be trustworthy by claiming "Bid with confidence check my feedback", but omits to say that he is dishonest enough to steal other people's hard work.

Price
The seller is asking got a price of £120 for this coin, on the 20th May 2009, when gold was about £600, eBay will make about £5 in fees, possibly plus PayPal fees.
The fact that he managed to sell it for double the price of gold makes us think that the buyer was probably duped inot thinking the coin was a half ounce version, as shown in our photograph, and not a tenth ounce one as described. We guess he would not be very pleased when he received his " eBay bargain"!
In fact we note the buyer gave him a negaitve saying "Item not received, no comms from seller despite sending 2 emails in 11 days.", so it sounds like he did not even receive the coin. Ah well, that's eBay for you!

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We reported this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and eBay have, not for the first time, chosen to ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity.

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