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9bazza in eBay Copyright Theft
9bazza of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, stole our 2001 Australian Half Ounce Gold Kangaroo Nugget Reverse photographs without permission, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same coin he was selling.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 330 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
AUSTRALIA 2001 $5 KANGAROO 1/20 OZ GOLD COIN
.9999 pure gold
200 1/20 Ounce 24K
Australian nugget Kangaroo Coin
Presented in original Mint Capusle (sic) then in cased in Perth Mints (sic) Box
.9999 Pure GOLD coin :
Coin is in Mint Condition, Weight 1/20 Troy Ounce (14mm diameter)
Made from .9999 pure GOLD and distibuted (sic) by the Australia Perth Mint
This is truely (sic) a wonderfull (sic) coin presentation of Australian coin and the native Kangaroo.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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9bazza | 170498272566 | 11th Jun 2010 | AUSTRALIA 2001 $5 KANGAROO 1/20 OZ GOLD COIN | AU $10
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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.
Anybody buying this coin would to entitled to believe that the mint condition half ounce gold coin shown in the photograph was the actual coin being offered for sale.
Half ounce or twentieth ounce? 9bazza says his coin is a 1/20th ounce nugget, but has used our photo of a half ounce coin. This is probably because for some reason we did not have a twentieth size coin illustrated on our 2001 nuggets page, or possibly because he needs an eye (or brain) test.
Whether 9bazza is misleading them deliberately or in ignorance, we cannot tell, perhaps it is a mixture of both, in which case he is not only lazy, but stupid and dishonest.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of AUD10 for this listing.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may 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.
We should probably delay reporting this item until a buyer has sent some money. This may sound cynical of us, but if enough greedy buyers got conned, they might kick up enough fuss, go to the media, and get eBay the publicity it deserves. It is not our job to act as unpaid policemen for eBay.
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