eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
blazingmonkey in eBay Copyright Theft
blazingmonkey of Rice Lake, WI, United States stole our 2003 Fiji Gold Proof 10 Dollars Lost Treasure of King Richard II - The World's Finest Gold Miniatures Collection of Coins 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 one of the coins 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 350, with 100% positive, according to eBay.
This eBay copyright thief also has an eBay shop with the name "The Wise Squirrel"
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
1 gram + 1.21 Gold Bullion Coin 2003 Elizabeth II .9999
Queen Elizabeth II FIJI 2003
Lost Treasure of King Richard II
$10.00 Face Value
.9999 Pure
(SIZE DETAIL: .0404 actual fine gold weight in troy ounces)
(SIZE DETAIL: 1.2100 coin weight in grams)
This coin is small but has outstanding detail and quality!! It comes in it's (sic) original protective case. Check out my other bullion auctions. Thanks for looking.
Attention Please:
This item(s) will ship quick (sic) and safe (sic) via U.S.P.S Priority Mail with delivery and signature confirmation. Combined shipping is not being offered at this time. If buyer is not satisfied with purchase a refund will be issued with the following conditions: Buyer must ship item(s) in the original condition within 3 days of receiving item(s). Buyer will pay for return shipping costs to seller. Shipping back to seller must also include delivery confirmation. A refund will be issued upon the seller receiving item(s) within 3 business days. The refund amount will be the original purchase price of item(s) and also the original shipping costs. Please stay in contact if you have any concerns or questions and allow adequate time for a response. Thank you.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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blazingmonkey | 110615517482 | 23rd Nov 2010 | 1 gram + 1.21 Gold Bullion Coin 2003 Elizabeth II .9999 | $95
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blazingmonkey | 110627865640 | 23rd Dec 2010 | 1 gram + 1.21 Gold Bullion Coin 2003 Elizabeth II .9999 | $95
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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 for a Buy It Now price of £95.
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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