eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
sheilasstuff2010 in eBay Copyright Theft
sheilasstuff2010 of Dorset, United Kingdom, stole our 1975 One Ounce Krugerrand Reverse Photograph to sell his own coin on eBay, without our permission, 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.
It looks like he also copied the descriptive text from our page.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 26, with 96.4% positive according to eBay.
His feedback history did contain an interesting negative:
- Blemished & scratched item. Photos sent. Unable to resolve to my satisfaction. 13-Aug-10 17:09
Reply by sheilasstuff2010 (14-Aug-10 16:06):This comment has been removed by eBay.
Sounds as though it was defamatory, abusive, obscene, or otherwise offensive!
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
Gold Krugerand (sic)
1975 Krugerand (sic) br>
Advertised elsewhere.
Can get £818 from London dealer who will then sell it on at around £850
Cash sale only. No cheques, plastic, luncheon vouchers or 20 camels.
Prefer collect and pay cash.
Related?
The wording of this listing was very similar to williamh4209, also of Wimborne Dorset, eBay Listing Using our 1975 One Ounce Krugerrand Reverse Photograph
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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sheilasstuff2010 | 200520189897 | 16th Sep 2010 | Gold Krugerand | £0.99
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sheilasstuff2010 | 200520206320 | 16th Sep 2010 | Gold Krugerand | £0.99
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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 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.
"Cash sale only... No pay pal, plastic.." is in breach of eBay listing policies. Combined with "local pickup only", make it sound to us as if the coins are stolen, which would help to explain why he has not sold them to a dealer like us.
Quick Cancellation
For some reason sheilasstuff2010 listed 3 gold coin items on eBay on 16th September 2010 between 1.17 and 2.07, and then ended all three listings the same day between 2.02 and 2.05 a.m. We do realise these times are slighly inconsistent, but that's eBay for you!
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.99 each for his or her coins.
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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