eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
ollsonroshan1872010 in eBay Copyright Theft
ollsonroshan1872010 of London, United Kingdom stole our 1974 Krugerrand Obverse & Reverse 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 21, with 92% 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
KRUGERRAND 1974 MINT 1OZ SOLID 24CT GOLD
WELCOME TO MY AUCTION FOR A MINT CONDITION 1974 KRUGERRAND. 1OZ OF SOLID 24CT GOLD, GREAT INVESTMENT. PLEASE ONLY BID IF YOU ARE ABLE TO PAY USING CHEQUE,POSTAL ORDER,BANK DRAFT OR BANK TRANSFER.I EXPECT TO RECIEVE (sic) PAYMENT WITHIN 48 HOURS OF AUCTION END, IF THIS IS A PROBLEM THEN PLEASE DONT (sic) BID.
I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING PAYPAL FOR THIS ITEM DUE TO THE HIGH FEES.
THE COIN WILL BE POSTED USING INSURED RECORDED DELIVERY ONCE PAYMENT HAS CLEARED. I WILL ONLY POST TO UK ADDRESSES.
HAPPY BIDDING
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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ollsonroshan1872010 | 160508701415 | 19th Nov 2010 | KRUGERRAND 1974 MINT 1OZ SOLID 24CT GOLD | £499.99
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ollsonroshan1872010 | 160509804152 | 22nd Nov 2010 | 1974 Krugerrand 1 oz Fine Gold Coin | £500.00/£800.00
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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.
Price
The seller was asking for a starting price of £500.
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.
In fact, after 8 bids, it "sold" for £710!
This is a ridiculously low price. We would have snatched his arm off at £100 more, subject to proper ID and possible proof of ownership. Either the seller is stupid, or the coin was stolen. By the sound of it, the bidders also thought the same, or possibly that it may be a non-existent coin rip-off, and very risky.
Second Try
We originally notice item 16050870141 from this seller, but a few days later, could not find in on the eBay system, and we had not yet reported it. Normally when an eBay listing is removed, eBay provides a page stating so, but on this occasion their system refused to recognise any such item number. Strange!
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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