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nvl16 in eBay Copyright Theft
nvl16 of Leeds or London, United Kingdom, stole our 1974 One Ounce Krugerrand Obverse Photograph to sell an undisclosed quantity of his own coins on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not the one 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 10, 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

Full Size Krugerrand - SEND BEST OFFER!! Read More
This auction is for a One (1) Ounce (oz) Krugerrand of a random year.
Please feel free to propose a best offer or if you are interested in multiple coins, as until I have a feedback of 10, I cannot add those on the page.
DISCOUNT: In order to encourage payment by Cheque, Bank Transfer or Cash on Collection (in order to minimise pay pal fees), I am offering £15 pounds off of final sale price and free UK shipping and Insurance for the above payment types. For discount, please contact me prior to payment.
For questions, queries, or requests/prices please don't hesitate to contact 075 4790 5038 or laughpot16 at aol dot com (laughpot16@aol.com)
If you live near Leeds or London, feel free to pick up, examine, etc in person. Delivery in person may be possible.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
nvl1614047136126228th Oct 2010Full Size Krugerrand - SEND BEST OFFER!! Read More£1,000.00

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 bar, 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.
The payment terms nvl16 states in the item listing contravene eBay's listing policies, so she is trying to cheat eBay also.
Will she cheat buyers, too?

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £1,000. for this item, and he invites best offers.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.

Well Dodgy!
Apart form stealing our high quality photograph, this one smells rotten from the start.
We would be extremely surprised if he turned out not to be a fraudster.

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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Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

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