eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
andy_l71 in eBay Copyright Theft
andy_l71 of Smethwick, West Midlands, United Kingdom, stole our 2008 Gold Proof Five Pence Coin Reverse Photograph from our 2008 British Gold 'Emblems of Britain' Proof Coin Sets page, to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his piece of gold plated crap. Totally dishonest.
He failed to state or warn potential buyers that the superb condition proof coin in our high quality photograph was not the coin you would recveive. This is deception.
He also later stole our 2000 Gold Proof Millenium Crown reverse photo, to try and sell a gold-plated ordinary non-proof crown.
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 35, 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
24K Gold Plated 5 pence. Great Ball Marker
24K Gold Plated 5 Pence Piece
Great Ball Marker For all Golfers
The Coins are Polished First so the Shine is Perfect
I Only Use Good Quality Coins
Great idea for Gifts
Display Piece or Addition to Coin Collection
Please ask if you Require a Specific Dated Coin
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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andy_l71 | 180567880897 | 28th Sep 2010 | 24K Gold Plated 5 pence. Great Ball Marker | £1.25
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andy_l71 | 180571124333 | 6th Oct 2010 | 4ct Gold Plated £5 Pound Coin Millenniun Anno Domini | £35
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andy_l71 | 180580348919 | 28th Oct 2010 | 24K Gold Plated 5 pence. Great Ball Marker | £1.25
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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 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 a starting price of £1.25. for this item.
Even though this is, or sounds, cheap, it it far more the the coin is actually worth.
Golf Ball Marker?
We don't know about that, but owning a gold plated five pence would probably mark you out as a complete pillock, like
andy_l71.
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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