eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
goldfinger79 in eBay Copyright Theft
goldfinger79, of "macclesfield, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom", stole our 5 Gram Degussa Gold Bar photograph to use on eBay, and omitted to tell buyers that the image was not of the bar he was selling. Totally dishonest!
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 12; with 100% positive according to eBay.
Sample Listing
5 Gram Pure 24k Degussa 9.999 Pure Gold Bar
DEGUSSA 5 GRAMME FINE GOLD 999.99 Pure, SEALED WITHIN A CLEAR PLASTIC JACKET
ITEM WILL BE SENT VIA RECORDED DELIVERY ONCE THE PAYMENT HAS CLEARED
WHY BUY GOLD
Gold is the world's oldest currency, thoughout history institutions and governments have relied on gold to protect them from inflation or falling currency values.
In times of war or financial instability, gold has acted as a safe haven to protect an individuals wealth.
Financial advisers will recommend having a percentage of assets invested in gold products.
Gold is easily transportable to any country in the world where its value will remain the same.
Baird & Co. manufacture in the company of minting division, a comprehensive range of gold bars with purity of .9999 including 100g, 50g, 20g, 10g, 5g suitable for private investors, trade buyers and retailers. These high quality coined bars compete directly in the investment market with national mints producing bullion coins of the same weight.
Our bullion products are from the most reputable essayers and manufacturers - such as Baird & Co, Degussa, Johnson Matthey, Credit Suisse, ARY, etc.
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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our image of the reverse of a 5 Gram Degussa Gold Bar, he used it to sell his own bar on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that the high quality photograph of a mint condition bar was not his own photograph, and not the same bar as he was offering for sale. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
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 £0.99 for his bar, but obviously decided to cancel his first auction, and then relisted at a "BIN" price of £139
If he manages to sell his barat that price, he could not only afford the £14 eBay selling fees, but could afford to pay us a 10% commission for the use of our photograph.
If anybody pays his price, they must be even more stupid than he is greedy and dishonest.
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.
Double Stupid or Double Stubborn?
We did report the above listing, which eBay removed. The stupid idiot decided to repeat his listing, still using one of our photographs. It happens more frequently than one would expect, leading us to believe that eBay are negligent in explaining copyright abuse to their members, and to believe that eBay are implicit co-conspirators in this abuse.
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