eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
pete198080 in eBay Copyright Theft
pete198080 of Bangor, Down, United Kingdom, stole our Obverse of 1997 Golden Wedding Gold Proof £5 Crown Photographs to use on eBay, and used it to try sell his own base metal coin as silver. Totally dishonest.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 41; with 100% positive according to eBay.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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pete198080 | 320429842580 | 30th Sep 2009 | 1997 £5 COIN SILVER | £5
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pete198080 | 320429837803 | 30th Sep 2009 | 1965 CHURCHILL COIN
| £1
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Sample Listing
1997 £5 COIN SILVER
YEAR 1997 £5 COIN ACTUAL COIN SILVER NOT GOLD AS IN PICTURE
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 reverse of a Obverse of 1997 Golden Wedding Gold Proof £5 Crown, he used them to try sell his own coin on eBay, and described his own base metal coin as silver.
Most eBay sellers try to deceive, cheat and bamboozle their customers, and it seems to work.
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.
Sadly, many eBay buyers are greedy or stupid, and allow themselves to be conned by sellers like this.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £5 for of his coin.
If that's all they sell for, he will be losing money, as we could have spent it for more. There would be much more sensible starting prices.
He would have got more by selling to us or spending it, 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 some coins.
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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