eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
williamh4209 in eBay Copyright Theft
williamh4209 of Wimborne, United Kingdom, stole our 1975 One Ounce Krugerrand Reverse Photograph to sell his own coin on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not one of the coins he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
He also stole our
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
It looks like he also copied the descriptive text from our page.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 17, with 100% positive according to eBay.
His feedback history did contain a negative and neutrals though, such as:
- Said winning bid too low & after auction claimed item stolen - a coincidence?
25-Mar-08 14:01 Wedgwood Cup & Saucer set "Cavendish" (#120231138571)
- Wrong item sent in the post refund given communication could have been better
- sorry about your burglary was the lighter I won for 99p taken in the Burglary?
Wedgewood Ronson lighter (#120231671546)
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
1975 Krugerrand
1975 Krugerrand
Advertised elsewhere for £825.
Cash sale only.
No pay pal, plastic, luncheon vouchers or 20 camels.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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williamh4209 | 120622296888 | 16th Sep 2010 | 1975 Krugerrand | £0.99
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williamh4209 | 120622298535 | 16th Sep 2010 | 1910 Sovereign | £0.99
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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 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.
"Cash sale only... No pay pal, plastic.." is in breach of eBay listing policies. Combined with "local pickup only", make it sound to us as if the coins are stolen, which would help to explain why he has not sold them to a dealer like us.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.99 for his coin.
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.
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