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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves

anng in eBay Copyright Theft
anng of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, stole our 1987 Gold Proof Britannia One Ounce Reverse Photograph without permission, in direct competition with us, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same coin set he was selling.
From his or her item description, we can deduce, from our experience, that the coins on offer are "bullion" (non-proof) versions, yet the photograph used is of a proof coin.
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 10 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

1987 Britannia £100 1oz Solid Gold Coin
A lovely example of the 1987 Britannia £100 22k Gold 1oz Coin. This particular coin was purchased in 1987, the first year of issue, and has been sitting in a security box since then.
The Coin comes in the original capsule with 'Britannia Building Society' inscription on one side, and 'Struck by The Royal Mint' on the other side.
The coin has no blemishes or scratches and is an excellent example of this rare and collectable coin.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
anng1705093781567th Jul 20101987 Britannia £100 1oz Solid Gold Coin£950
anng17051025009810th Jul 20101987 Britannia £100 1oz Solid Gold Coin£950
anng17051203631411th Jul 20101987 Britannia £100 1oz Solid Gold Coin£950

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.

Price
The seller was asking a Buy It Now price of £950 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.

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

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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.

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anng eBay Listing Using our 1977 South Africa Krügerrand: 1 oz unze Feingold 31,1 g Photograph Photograph
anng eBay Listing Using our 1977 South Africa Krügerrand: 1 oz unze Feingold 31,1 g Photograph Photograph

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