eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
wheezydog in eBay Copyright Theft
wheezydog of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States stole our 1997 Golden Wedding Anniversary Gold Proof Crown Photographs to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own coins, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not one of the coins 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 1134, with 100% Positive Feedback 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
1997 5 Pound Golden Wedding Anniversary Gold Proof coin
My packet has never been opened since I bought it over 13 years ago. It is still sealed in the heavy plastic.
Inside there is a quality hinged box with a velvet tray and encapsulated coin with the COA.
The specifications are
Golden Wedding £5 Five Pound - Weight: 39.94 Grams / Diameter: 38.61mm
Metal: Solid 22 Carat Gold
Quality: Gold Proof
Issue Limits 2,574 Worldwide - Number 0593 on COA
Presentation Box & Certificate of Authenticity
Minted by Royal Mint
Condition New
This is still in the sealed heavy plastic. It has not been opened.
Is there a Proof 70 coin inside? I do knot know, but UK Royal Mint coins are of the highest quality.
SHIPPING TO USA at fixed price stated. I will also ship to CANADA UK and AUSTRALIA but shipping terms will differ.
Shipping for 1 item you buy or win at auction from me or all you win or purchase is a flat total of $15.00 via Priority mail which includes insurance. If you buy other sets from me as well, I combine the shipping and insurance to equal actual costs and ship together.
I also accept Cashier checks.
Payment is due within 2 days after sale ends using Paypal. Within 5 working days if mailing payment.
Communication is imperative within 24 hours.
SHIPPING TO USA at fixed price stated. I will also ship to CANADA UK and AUSTRALIA but shipping terms will differ.
Write to me before bidding if you are interested in bidding from outside the US.
I want to be sure you are informed of the cost of shipping and insurance that you will be required to pay.
I have Gold Proof coins up for sale and other Silver coins from the UK Royal Mint.
Opening bid is a very competitive $1685.00
Look around, if you can find another, it is selling for hundreds more.
This hard to find coin is underpriced at this opening bid since bullion has risen in the past year.
When this coin was issued in 1997 you can see I paid $995.00 while the price of the gold was a small fraction of what it is today.
The numismatic value on this coin s probably $600.00 above the gold content value which this week is probably close to $1400.00
Specks and white spots are dust and glare exaggerated by the camera flash and not on coins.
Box plastic wrapper has stickers on it. Stickers have information on the set for my own inventory purposes such as price I paid at time of purchase ( issue price ) mintage etc.
I have a lot of watchers, so I have decreased all 5 auctions I have up this week by 10% open bid.
I do expect some sniping and last minute bidding at these prices, some listings are well below NY daily spot prices.
Good luck!
|
Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
| |
wheezydog | 300509935247 | 9th Jan 2011 | 1997 5 Pound Golden Wedding Anniversary Gold Proof coin | $1,525.50
| |
wheezydog | 300509938953 | 9th Jan 2011 | United Kingdom 1997 First Bimetallic Gold Proof Coin | $666.00
|
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.
Price
The seller was asking for a Starting Price of $1,525.50.
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.
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.
Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
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
Other Web Sites
All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-
|
|
wheezydog's eBay Listing Using our 1997 Golden Wedding Anniversary Gold Proof Crown Photographs
Our Images
Our 1997 Golden Wedding Anniversary Gold Proof Crown Photograph
eBay Index
|
