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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
niiiick2 in eBay Copyright Theft
niiiick2, of "Cowbridge, The Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom", stole our 1974 Krugerrand Photographs to use on eBay, and used it to try sell a his own coin. Totally dishonest.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 46; with 100% positive according to eBay.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
niiiick232042566745818th Sep 20091Oz Krugerrand Gold Coin 1974£600
niiiick232042686549521st Sep 20091Oz Krugerrand Gold Coin 1974£600

Sample Listing

1Oz Krugerrand Gold Coin 1974
Stunning 1 Oz Gold Krugerrand coin 22karot (sic) 1974. paypal only

Re-Listing

1Oz Krugerrand Gold Coin 1974
Stunning 1 Oz Gold Krugerrand coin 22karot (sic) 1974. paypal only. feedback 10+ please. relisted for 1 day due to time waster

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best Photographic 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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our images of the obverse and reverse of a 1974 Krugerrand, he used them to try sell his own coin on eBay.
He did not tell buyers it was not the same coin as he was hawking, but what if he doesn't even own any gold coins?

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 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 a starting price of £600 for his coin, which "sold" for £660.
He would probably have got more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal fees, or spending it, although many eBay buyers do overpay for gold bullion, compared with our own prices for similar or better gold bullion bars.
Similarly, buyers may be better off dealing direct with a proper, well-established, dealer, such as us, and we could offer a better selection!

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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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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niiiick2 eBay Listing Using our 1974 Krugerrand Photographs
niiiick2 eBay Listing Using our 1974 Krugerrand Photographs

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