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Reincarnate-it & eBay Copyright Theft
We came across the eBay vendor like many others, using our high quality coin photographs without asking our permission, in breach of our copyright, and in competition with ourselves.

eBay Copyright Theft
Many eBay sellers, including dealers steal our copyright images, we suspect some of them may also be fraudsters. Does eBay care?

Is eBay Really a Lottery? - Is This Seller a Crook?
Whenever we send copyright infringement notices to eBay, which is a daily occurrence, we include a paragraph warning or alerting them that in our experience, may people who steal our images also steal other things, and that if a vendor uses stolen images, it is likely that he does not own the items he is offering for sale. eBay appear to take no notice of our "good neighbour" advice, and usually allow the seller to relist the same or similar items, sometimes they steal other people's images as well.
In a significant number of cases, although we don't keep count, we notice that a few weeks later, the seller is "no longer a registered user". We never get any feedback or thanks from eBay, but our guess is that the seller has failed to deliver the goods after being paid, buyers have complained to eBay or the police, and his membership has been revoked. Because we don't receive any feedback, we can only guess, and it does seem that eBay goes to great lengths to avoid bad publicity.

Power Sellers - Pillars of the eBay Community?
Reincarnate-it is not even a PowerSeller despite an impressive feedback of 6805, because her 97.7% positive feedback is too low, and her detailed seller ratings are also too low.
Feedback 6,805 - 97.7% Positive.

Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This eBay Vendor?
Using other people's copyright images is against eBay's rules, it is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer to sell the same goods in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics. We would not recommend anybody to transact business with this person or company.

Thick as Thieves
Just about every single listing we looked at from this vendor was riddled with spelling mistakes, for example "BRITTAINIA", instead of "Britannia". How difficult is it to copy the wording from the coin?

Misleading & Dishonest
Using a purloined picture not only breaches the copyright owners rights, it misleads potential buyers about the item itself. For example, reincarnate-it used our image of the reverse (tail side) of a 2004 dated PROOF half ounce gold Britannia, but stole somebody else's photograph of the obverse (head side) and this only appears to be a non-proof coin. She neither seems to know or care whether her coin is uncirculated or proof. It may not matter whether she knows or not, but she is misleading buyers by showing a picture of a proof coin. If she had take her own photo (most mobile telephones take photos), her buyers could have judged for themselves.

Other Items Taken Into Consideration
Why stop at stealing one photograph for one auction? This same vendor used a number of our other photographs for other listings.
Perhaps flogging second-hand IT products and DVDs, it's quick and easy to nick a picture from the original publisher's website or possibly Amazon, and we are sure most small eBay vendors do it all the time. eBay obviously accept this, and make loadsadough out of it, and only take action when IP rights owners complain. In our opinion, it is this unethical and amoral behaviour on the part of eBay which encourages their vendors to steal whatever images they wish.
In the case of her gold sovereign listings, any potential bidders would be seriously mislead as to the grade quality of the coins, as there was no warning that the photographs were not of the items on offer.

1/2 OUNCE 22 CARAT £50 GOLD BRITTANIA COIN 1987.

£50 1/2 OUNCE GOLD BRITTAINIA.
17.03 GRAMS 22 CARAT GOLD.
MINT CONDITION.
3 DAY AUCTION.

eBay Shop
REINCARNATE IT LTD

Computers, Laptop Accessories Laptops, Spares, Dell ,and More Laptop Lids New Laptop Bezels New Inkjet cards for printers, Cartirdges for Laser Printers. Genuine Original HP Ink cartriges Boxed New Also miscellaneous items Please email me if you dont see what your after I will be able to help you. Tele: 07740042144 or 07983978236
About Me
The vendor's "About Me" page reads:-
About bumble5856

Hi, I am 57 years old I have 4 children all married in stable relationships. We have 9 grandchildren, this year we will have been married for 40 years in a happy marriage.My husband is a master printer I am a house wife who likes to sell on Ebay. I like to sell a good product at a small cost with a small profit I am honest and trustworthy as you will see from my feed backs I try to give a satisfactory service with no hassel or refund immeditley I try to help people to find the right product for them and give good value for money with out compromising the quality, I try to post goods out a.s.p. and have a tele 07813862994 help line or for enquiry.I used to have horses. I like gardening, soaps, sci fi films, animals in general, people.I hope this gives you a good profile of who I am. Regards bumble5856 at your service. I DO NOT TRY TO RIP PEOPLE OFF YOU CAN TRUST ME . PAULINE
All Items will be posted on the day of payment if paid on Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday Payments posted on the Monday as these are working postal days , with the exception of a bank holiday then the next post office opening hours. Your postage may take 3 to 5 working postal office days.

If You Are So Honest, Why Steal Our Photographs & Mislead Buyers?
Or can you not see the connection?

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionValue
reincarnate-it3601287945432nd Feb 20091/2 OUNCE 22 CARAT £50 GOLD BRITTANIA COIN 1987.£350

Our Advice - 1
Avoid doing business with this dishonest eBayer
Actually, it's probably best to avoid eBay entirely.

Our Advice - 1
Our advice to reincarnate-it would be to invest in a dictionary, perhaps an evening class for English language, spelling, or ethics. Failing that, use your computer's spell-check facility, or get somebody else to proof read your listings.

Find more items from the same seller. Bid or Buy Now!
Because reincarnate-it uses eBay's cross-marketing feature, thumbnail versions of our pictures got repeated on all her visible feedback items, and all her completed listings. On Monday 2nd February 2009, we reported these listings:-
360128676893, 360123423962, 360123420500, 360096740837, 360096901290, 360096903100, 360096903639, 360104599854, 360106114580, 360106114596, 360108160254, 360108187983, 360108188493, 360108188811, 360108217042, 360108217890, 360108218881, 360112632719, 360112632768, 360112636376, 360112636826, 360112637330, 360112643738, 360112644065, 360112647448, 360115504335, 360115511397, 360122390509, 360122677737, 360123415740, 360123416317, 360123417312, 360123421215, 360123422285, 360123423041, 360123423465, 360123423675, 360123423962, 360123424770, 360123919760, 360126073399, 360127224546, 360127350080, 360127414420, 360127423966, 360127427888, 360127430802, 360127451220, 360127701720, 360127844624 (50 in all).

Same Again Next Day
Reincarnate-it didn't bother to find out what was wrong and fix it, or contact us, she just went ahead like a donkey, and relisted a whole load more stuff the next day. As all the new stuff also contained the same thumbnail images of ours, we reported the new listings:-
360128791413, 360128791905, 360128792285, 360128792566, 360128792806, 360128793000, 360112634646, 360108187983, 360108188493, 360108188811, 360108217042, 360108217890, 360108218881, 360108226938, 360112632639, 360112632657, 360112632685, 360112632719, 360112632768, 360112632795, 360112632813, 360112634457, 360112634713, 360112634765, 360112634945, 360112636376, 360112636826, 360112637330, 360112640673, 360112640958, 360112641175, 360112641581, 360112641831, 360112642201, 360112643738, 360112644065, 360112644286, 360112647448, 360112647653, 360112648131, 360112648617, 360115503094, 360115503294, 360115503500, 360115504133, 360115504335, 360115504527, 360115504845, 360115504987, 360115506200, 360115507724, 360115508071, 360115508392, 360115508638, 360115508835, 360115510137, 360115510814, 360115511397, 360122389338, 360122392827, 360122393293, 360122675523, 360122676348, 360122677737, 360122678136, 360123415740, 360123424194, 360123425177, 360123913546, 360123917548, 360123919760, 360126879568, 360126883019, 360126901648, 360126904159, 360126909786, 360126918129, 360126921860, 360126925676, 360126931791, 360127222676, 360127223490, 360127225473, 360127227091, 360127347692, 360127349062, 360127351206, 360127352103, 360127353715, 360127393198, 360127394385, 360127395625, 360127397732, 360127398753, 360127401502, 360127403784, 360127409764, 360127411820, 360127416114, 360127418697, 360127420794, 360127434511, 360127441732, 360127445343, 360127457139, 360127583179, 360127583759, 360127584111, 360127817531, 360127834775, 360127835843, 360127836957, 360127838364, 360127840105, 360127841894, 360128662805, 360128664433, 360128666001, 360128667353, 360128669000, 360128671755, 360128915895, 360128917416, 360128918371, 360128919873, 360128921209, 360128926184, 360128927530, 360128928212, 360128928939, 360128929569, 360128931425, (132 in all).
eBay remove this lot very promptly, for once.

Whadda Do Wrong?
Late on Tuesday, we received a semi-anonymous e-mail, which with a little detective work, we worked out it must be from reincarnate-it, it is possibly worth reproducing it here, so you can see what we are up against:-

DEAR SIR/MADAM ,=0A=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 EARLIER TODAY YOU CANCELLED OVER 1= 00 OF MY AUCTIONS , OF WHICH I HAD TAKEN THE PHOTOS OF THE ITEMS MYSELF. SO= ME DVD FILMS HAD PICTURES THAT WHERE TAKEN FROM YOUR=C2=A0ISDN SYSTEM , WHE= RE WE PUT THE DVD NUMBER IN AND YOU FILL IN THE REST .=C2=A0 THIS ALL STEMS= FROM SOME GOLD COINS I AM SELLING THAT I TOOK MOST OF THESE PHOTOS , I UND= ERSTAND I MAY HAVE ON OCCASION INFRINGED YR POLICY , AND AM KEEN TO STOP TH= IS HAPPENING AGAIN , BUT 95% OF YTHE ONES YOU HAVE TAKEN OFF WHERE MY OWN A= ND I CANT SEE HOW I CAN EVER STOP THIS HAPPENING AGAIN , I RELISTED THE ITE= MS WHICH I TOOK THE PHOTOS MYSELF AND AGAIN YOU TOOK THESE OFF , CAN YOU AD= VISE ME ASAP , THIS IS BUSINESS FOR ME AND NEED AN URGENT RESOLUTION , =0A= =0A=0A=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 MANY THANKS=C2=A0 P BARTRAM

Auctiva
As we explain on its own page, dishonest eBay vendors should avoid using Auctiva, or Auctiva users should avoid dishonestly using copyright photographs without permission, otherwise the copyright abuse gets replicated many times over.

Notes
Seller ID. There is nothing to stop eBay members changing their "Seller ID", or opening a new account.
This one appears to have been previously known as "bumble5856", which may better describe her approach to business.
Item Number. We may have shown only one out of many similar items.
Date = End date or date added to this page if item still current.
Description = Description as used by the seller as his item title.
Price = Final selling price if known, otherwise "Current Price", or "Starting bid".

What's In A Name?
If you get caught out too many times, eBay will always let you change your name. Some eBay sellers have as many IDs as Carlos the Jackal.

Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

Copyright Infringements Remedies
Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.

Other Copyright Abuse

Other Copyright Abuse

Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

Selling Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

Copyright Thieves on eBay
We already have a page naming and shaming dealers using our images without permission. It's time we did the same for eBay, although if we include them all, this could be a very long page.

Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites

Other Scams

eBay Index

Other Web Sites
All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

Reverse of 2004 Proof Gold Britannia Image from reincarnate-it's eBay Item 360128794543
Reverse of 2004 Proof Gold Britannia Image from reincarnate-it's eBay Item 360128794543

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