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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves

ghostdog07in eBay Copyright Theft
ghostdog07of München, Germany (obviously a Minger!) stole our 1975 Krugerrand Reverse Photographs to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own coin, 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 36, with only 96.2% 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

** Krügerrand / Krugerrand Goldmünze 1 OZ/Unze 1 Tag **
Versteigert wird
1 Unze Gold Jahrgang 1975
Selbstverständlich handelt es sich um einen originalen Krügerrand. Keine Nachprägung oder Goldauflage.
Material: Gold 916,6/1000
Gesamtgewicht : 33,93 g
Goldanteil 31,10 g
Sie bieten auf die oben abgebildete Münze (Bild 2). Die Münze wird ausschließlich versichert versendet. Bitte bieten Sie nur auf dieses schöne Stück wenn Sie auch wirklich kaufen möchten.
Ich kann keine Garantie oder Gewährleistung geben, versichere jedoch das es sich um eine 100% echte Krügerrand Anlagemünze handelt.
Nun bleibt nur noch ... "Happy bidding" zu wünschen ;) 3...2...1...Deins?

Google Translation

Auctioned
1 ounce of gold born in 1975
Of course, it is an original Krugerrand. No restrike or gold.
Material: Gold 916.6 / 1000
Total weight: 33,93 g
Gold content 31.10 g
You are bidding on the coin shown above (Figure 2). The coin will ship only with insurance. Please offer you only on this beautiful piece if you also want to actually buy.
I can not guarantee or warranty, however, assure that there is a 100% genuine Krugerrand
Bullion coin is.
All that remains is ... Happy bidding "to do;) 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. yours?

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
ghostdog0732067639847126th March 2011** Krügerrand / Krugerrand Goldmünze 1 OZ/Unze 1 Tag **€955.55

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.

One Day Sale
eBay have some amusing advice on their stie about when to use a 1-day sale. They omit to say it's when the item for sale is stolen, or a copyright image has been illegally used. Our advice is always beware one day sales.

Price
The seller was asking for a starting price of €1.00.
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.

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.

Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites

Other Scams

Other Web Sites
All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

ghostdog07's eBay Listing Using our 1975 Krugerrand Photographs
ghostdog07's eBay Listing Using our 1975 Krugerrand Photographs

Our Images
Our 1975 Krugerrand Reverse Photograph
Our 1975 Krugerrand Reverse Photograph

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