eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
nikometternichin eBay Copyright Theft
nikometternichof Bonn, Germany stole our 2008 Australian 100 Dollar Gold Proof Nugget Coin Photographs to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own coins, 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 102, 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
20 x 1/10 OZ 9999 GOLD AUSTRALIAN NUGGET KANGAROO 15.$
Dieses Angebot enthält 20 mal 1/10 Unze .9999 Gold aus Australien/Känguru.
Darunter befinden sich folgende Jahrgänge Känguru:
This package contains 20 times 1 / 10 Oz .9999 Gold from Australia/Kangaroo.
Among them are the following vintages kangaroo:
20 x 2008
Ausgabeland Australien
Nennwert: 15 Dollars Gold 9999/1000
Gewicht 3,1 g
Durchmesser 16,1 mm
Lieferung in der Originalmünzdose
Issue Country Australia
Face Value: 15 dollars Gold 9999/1000
Weight 3.1 g
Diameter 16.1 mm
Delivery in the original coin capsules
15 $ Känguruh-Goldnugget 2005 1/10 oz Gold 999/1000
Ich garantiere die Echtheit dieser Bullion-Münzen.
I guarantee the authenticity of these bullion coins.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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nikometternich | 220747278517 | 2nd March 2011 | 20 x 1/10 OZ 9999 GOLD AUSTRALIAN NUGGET KANGAROO 15.$
| €2,499.00
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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 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.
This particular eBay seller has stolen our 1oz photograph but claims to be selling 1/10oz coins.
Price
The seller was asking for a Buy-It Now price of €2,499.00 or a bidder could make a Best Offer.
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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