eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
cyberwurl in eBay Copyright Theft
cyberwurl of United Kingdom stole our 1980 Turks and Caicos Lord Mountbatten 100 Crowns 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 85 with 100% positive feedback 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
TURKS AND CAICOS 1980 LORD MOUNTBATTEN GOLD AND SILVER PROOF 4 COIN SET/
INCLUDES :
100 CROWNS GOLD PROOF ( .500 GOLD ) WEIGHT 12.9 GRAMS
20 CROWNS SILVER PROOF WEIGHT 29.81 GRAMS
10 CROWNS SILVER PROOF WEIGHT 23.33 GRAMS
5 CROWNS SILVER PROOF WEIGHT 14.58 GRAMS
TOTAL GOLD CONTENT 0.2083 TROY OUNCE
TOTAL SILVER CONTENT 1.088TROY OUNCE
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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cyberwurl | 250786370785 | 14th March |
1980 TURKS & CAICOS MOUNTBATTEN GOLD & SILVER PROOF SET | $399.00 |
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 $500.
Even 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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