eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
mrslegohead in eBay Copyright Theft
mrslegohead of Paignton, United Kingdom, stole our Baird & Co One Ounce Gold Bullion Bar Reverse Photograph to sell her own bar on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the bar in the photograph was not the one she 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 284, 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
BAIRD AND CO ONE OUNCE GOLD BULLION BAR
****BE QUICK, PRICE @ BAIRD TODAY £925 AND RISING, PLUS FEE'S, I AM THE CHEAPEST IN THE COUNTRY AT THE MOMENT AND YOU KNOW IT******
NO MORE SILLY OFFERS!
ONE OUNCE GOLD BULLION BAR BOUGHT FROM BAIRD AND CO LONDON
IF YOU LOOK IN MY FEEDBACK I HAVE SOLD QUITE A LOT OF THESE
100% GENUINE
BUYER WELCOME TO COLLECT.
SEALED AND I CAN PROVIDE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL RECEIPT IF NEEDS (YOU CANNOT HAVE THE ORIGINAL BECAUSE I BOUGHT IN BULK MANY YEARS AGO)
WILL ONLY SEND TO REGISTERED PAYPAL ADDRESS
WILL ONLY SEND TRACKED AND INSURED VIA SPECIAL DELIVER
PRICED TO SELL, MUCH CHEAPER THAN BAIRD AFTER THE FEE'S (sic)
THANKS FOR LOOKING.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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mrslegohead | 270726719616 | 28th March 2011 | BAIRD AND CO ONE OUNCE GOLD BULLION BAR | £900.00
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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.
The payment terms mrslegohead states in the item listing contravene eBay's listing policies, so she is trying to cheat eBay also.
Will she cheat buyers, too?
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £850. for this item.
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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