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mos619 in eBay Copyright Theft
mos619 of boisbriand, QC, United States, Canada stole our 1967 $20 Canadian Gold Proof coin 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 the coin 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 607, 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

CANADA 1967 Proof Set $20 Gold Coin in Set
CANADA 1967 Proof Set $20 Gold Coin Set
Composition: .900 Gold .100 Copper Pure Gold Content over 1/2 ounce (.528 ounce)
Weight 18.27 Grams
Diameter: 27.05 mm
This gold coin commemorates the centennary of Canadaian Confederation and was only originally issued as part of a specimen set in a leather case.
The total mintage of these sets was 334,288.
The reverse shows a model of the Canadian Coat of Arm.
The Silver $, 50c, 25c, and 10c are all 80% silver content. The 1c and 5c are copper and nickel respectively.
The seven coin set commemorates the centennary of Canadaian Confederation and was only originally issued as a specimen set in a leather case.
The total mintage of these sets was 334,288.
The reverse of the $20 Gold coin shows a model of the Canadian Coat of Arm.
The 1ct-$, depict the Canadian wildlife themes - dove, rabbit, mackerel, cougar, wolf and Canada goose.
Shipping handling Canada usa $25.00

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
mos61922071366338327th Dec 2010CANADA 1967 Proof Set $20 Gold Coin in Set$829.00
mos6192207159514523rd Jan 2011CANADA 1967 Proof Set $20 Gold Coin in Set$800.00
mos61922071980450211th Jan 2011CANADA 1967 Proof Set $20 Gold Coin in Set$800.00

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold coin 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 coin, 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 $829.00.
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

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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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mos619 eBay Listing Using our 1967 $20 Canadian Gold Proof Coin Photographs
mos619 eBay Listing Using our 1967 $20 Canadian Gold Proof Coin Photographs

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