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finddee1 in eBay Copyright Theft
finddee1 of London, United Kingdom, stole & disguised our 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Britannia Reverse Photograph to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his own bullion Britannias. Totally dishonest.
He failed to state or warn potential buyers that the superb condition proof coin in our high quality photograph was not the coin or coins you would receive, or that the photograph was a 2004 proof coin when he was offering a 2009 non-proof coin. This is deception.
Does he not know the difference between proof and uncirculated (or "bullion")?
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 6, 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

Gold Britannia 1 ounce bullion coins
Gold coins are one of the few investments which are free of capital gains tax. Reluctant sale of very recently purchased new 2009 coins. Will sell for 4.5% above spot gold price which is an absolute bargain! Note £900 is a guide price only. Please call Dee on 07733 788 195 to find out more.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
finddee11705498376587th Oct 2010Gold Britannia 1 ounce bullion coins£900
finddee11705502367848th Oct 2010Gold Britannia 1 ounce bullion coins£885

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 £900 each for his items (apparently he has more than one of them, and it sounds like he is trying understandably to avoid eBay's exorbitant selling fees.
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.

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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

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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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finddee1 eBay Listing Using our 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Britannia Reverse Photograph
finddee1 eBay Listing Using our 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Britannia Reverse Photograph

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Our 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Britannia Reverse Photograph
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