eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
clobberiser2 in eBay Copyright Theft
clobberiser2 of manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, stole & disguised our 10 Gram Heraeus Gold Bullion Bar Photograph to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his own bar, if any. Totally dishonest.
He failed to state or warn potential buyers that the superb looking bar in our high quality photograph was not the same bar you would receive. This is deception.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 632, with 99.5% 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
10 g Gold bar. 999.9
10 g Heraeus (germany) (sic) gold bar.
Bought by myself a couple of years ago for the going rate at the time,i now need to sell and expect it to sell for the current going rate.
I am selling other gold and silver bars and coins - please take a look at my other items if interested.
Postage £6 special delivery to a UK address,or if paying with cash you are welcome to collect in person(manchester) (sic)
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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clobberiser2 | 260674604673 | 7th Oct 2010 | 10 g Gold bar. 999.9 | £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 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 £0.99 each for his item.
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.
Interesting Negative Feedback
this item is fake!!!!!!!!!! Member ID ( Feedback score of 45 ) 26-Feb-10 17:23
Reply by clobberiser2 (10-Mar-10 18:57):just because trousers were cheap does not mke (sic) them fake, return for refund pleas (sic)
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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