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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves

avena123 in eBay Copyright Theft
avena123 of Becherbach, Germany, stole our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Obverse & Reverse 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 the coin 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 205 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

Südafrika Krugerrand 1974 1 Unze oz Gold Krügerrand
Sie bieten auf eine 100% echte 1 Unze Goldmünze
Krügerrand 1974
Fyngold 1 Oz Fine Gold
1 Unze Feingold
Hier die Daten:
Selbstverständlich übernehme ich die Garantie für die Echtheit der Goldmünze zu 100 %.
Es handelt sich definitiv um eine echte Krügerrand 1 Unze Feingoldmünze wie sie auch heute noch bei der Bank erworben werden kann.
Die Münze kann jederzeit besichtigt werden.
Selbstabholung mit Barzahlung ist selbstverständlich auch möglich.
Versand erfolgt mit DHL bis zu 2500 Euro versichert für 12 Euro.
Ich versende sofort nach Zahlungseingang.
Viel Erfolg bei der Auktion.

Google Translation

They offer a 100% genuine 1 ounce gold coin
Krugerrand 1974
Fyngold 1 Oz Fine Gold
1 ounces of fine gold
Here are the details:
Of course, I guarantee the authenticity the gold coin to 100%.
It is definitely a genuine Krugerrand 1 oz Gold coin as it is still purchased from the bank can be.
The coin can be visited at any time.
Pickup with cash is of course also possible.
Shipping with DHL insured up to 2500 € for 12 €.
I ship immediately after payment.
Good luck with the auction.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
avena1232706165599592nd Aug 2010Südafrika Krugerrand 1974 1 Unze oz Gold Krügerrand€1001

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 1001 for his coin.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
Also, we sell them for less than his asking price, but then we would, as we make our living as dealers by being competitive, as well as reliable.

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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Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

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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:-

avena123 eBay Listing Using Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Obverse Photograph
avena123 eBay Listing Using Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Obverse Photograph

Our Images

Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Reverse Photograph
Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Reverse Photograph

Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Obverse Photograph
Our 1974 One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Obverse Photograph eBay Index

 


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