eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
caio95039 in eBay Copyright Theft
caio95039 of Prunedale, California, United States, stole our 1976 Canadian Half Ounce Gold Proof $100 Montreal Olympics Obverse & 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 415 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
Canada $100 1976 1/2 oz 22k Gold PROOF Olympic Coin
ISSUED IN 1976 BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT TO COMMEMORATE AND HELP FINANCE THE XXI OLYMPIAD, THIS BEAUTIFUL $100 PROOF COIN IS ENCLOSED IN THE ORIGINAL PRESENTATION BOX WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY #C53179.
Obverse...Queen Elizabeth II
Reverse...Grecian athlete being crowned with laurel by the goddess Pallas Athena
The coin measures 25mm in diameter and contain 91.70% pure gold and 8.30% pure silver.
It weighs 16.966 gr and contains .50025 troy oz of pure gold.
Total mintage 350,000
This is a no reserve auction
Payment will be accepted through PayPal
Shipping through USPS with Signature Confirmation
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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ciao95039 | 320545077768 | 7th Jun 2010 | Canada $100 1988 1/4 oz Gold PROOF Coin - Bowhead Whale | US $0.99
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caio95039 | 320549699838 | 17th Jun 2010 | Canada $100 1976 1/2 oz 22k Gold PROOF Olympic Coin | US $0.99
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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.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of $1 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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