eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
raspoetin83 in eBay Copyright Theft
raspoetin83, of Marke, Belgium, stole our 1949 Swiis Gold Twenty Francs (Vreneli) photograph to use on eBay, and used it to try sell a his own Krugerrand, without telling buyers it was not the same coin. Totally dishonest.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 24; with 100% positive according to eBay.
Sample Listing
Vreneli 20fr Helvetia 1949 - GOLD
VRENELI 20fr HELVETIA 1949 - GOLD
COIN IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!
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 image of the obverse of a 1949 Swiis Gold Twenty Francs (Vreneli), he used it to sell his own coin on eBay.
He told potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was the "actual coin so you can judge the quality for yourself", in 4 different auctions, three of which were for one ounce coins, the fourth for a tenth ounce coin.
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 £0.99 for his set of coins, and it had reached £525 when we took our screenshot. with a day to go..
He would probably have got 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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raspoetin83 eBay Listing Using our 1949 Swiis Gold Twenty Francs (Vreneli) Photograph
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