eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
dvrd51in eBay Copyright Theft
dvrd51of Washington, United Kingdom stole our 1980 Four Coin Sovereign Set Photograph 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 1583, 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
1980 BRITISH 4 COIN GOLD PROOF SET
1980 BRITISH 4 COIN GOLD PROOF SET.
FANTASTIC INVESTMENT WITH THE PRICE OF GOLD INCREASING ALL THE TIME.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE ASK BEFORE BIDDING.
WE HAVE OTHER GOLD COIN SETS IN STOCK SO IF YOU REQUIRE A DIFFERENT SET PLEASE ASK.
ITEM WILL BE SENT BY SPECIAL DELIVERY.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK.
THANKS AND GOOD LUCK!
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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dvrd51 | 320662608906 | 25th Feb 2011 | 1980 BRITISH 4 COIN GOLD PROOF SET | £0.99
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dvrd51 | 320662595876 | 25th Feb 2011 | 1988 BRITISH 3 COIN GOLD PROOF SET | £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 for a starting price of £0.99.
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.
Auctiva, eBay & Copyright Theft
This guy uses Auctiva. We know from experience, that when eBay removes the directly infringing item, the Auctiva Gallery thumbnail persists, and is repeated and included in many, sometimes all, of the sellers eBay listings. eBay either do not know or do not care about this, although we have told them, so eBay never advise their member about this (poor customer service, we think). Auctiva also don't appear to know, although we have told them as well.
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