Au_Coins Gold Coin Investments in eBay Copyright Theft
Many eBay sellers, including dealers steal our copyright images, we suspect some of them may also be fraudsters. Does eBay care?
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 3,763; with 99.5% positive according to eBay.
PowerSellers
According to eBay, PowerSellers are the pillars of the eBay community, but time and time again, we find PowerSellers stealing our images. It is so common, and eBay clearly know about it, that we believe eBay act unethically in permitting its members to steal images so easily, without sufficient checks, warnings, or education. This is as dishonest of eBay as it it of their members to steal copyright images in the first place.
Sample Listing:
THE 2007 GOLD PROOF BRITANNIA FOUR COIN SET(cased+cert)
DESCRIPTION
The gold Britannia coin was first introduced in 1987 and has been issued every year since, sometimes with a different reverse design.
In 2007 the Royal Mint used a one off design by Christopher Le Brun showing the seated figure of Britannia holding a trident with a lion at her feet.
In my view the best Britannia design since the 1997 Horse and Chariot version.
The set contains four coins all struck in 22 carat gold to proof standard by the Royal Mint and is housed in the original case with certificate of authenticity.
The coins have never been removed from their protective capsules and are in mint condition as is the case and certificate.
Coin Specifications:
Face Value Diameter(mm) Weight(g) Gold content
£100 32.69 34.05 1 oz
£50 27.00 17.025 1/2 oz
£25 22.00 8.513 1/4 oz
£10 16.50 3.412 1/10 oz
Please visit my shop for a wide selection of quality gold coins.
What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin images on the internet. We strongly object when other lazy and dishonest dealers decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, and pass them off as their own work, doing so in competition with us.
The chances are that we could and would have supplied the listed coin at a lower price than this eBay vendor.
It is quite likely that the pictured coin, a 1780 Austrian silver Maria Theresa thaler, is not included in the lots, although, apart from our photograph, there is nothing to indicate whether or not one may be included.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular dealer states:
"No tricks here. No fake, plated, colored or other small print rip-offs.
Ebay is all about feedback and I plan on keeping mine very high.
We would say that stealing another dealer's images amounts to dishonest tricks, and it's a pity eBay feedback doesn't give any indication of honesty. It would be an improvement eBay published statistics on how many copyright infringement reports a member had attracted, or allowed IP rights owners the right to allocate a negative for copyright theft.
Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
Copyright Infringements Remedies
Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.
Other Copyright Abuse
Other Copyright Abuse
Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay
Selling Gold Coins & Bars on eBay
Copyright Thieves on eBay
We already have a page naming and shaming dealers using our images without permission. It's time we did the same for eBay, although if we include them all, this could be a very long page.
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