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skptraders in eBay Copyright Theft
skptraders, of Ilford, United Kingdom, stole our Baird Gold Bar photographs to use on eBay, and used it to try sell a his own bar. Totally dishonest.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 1,438; with 99.3% positive according to eBay.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
skptraders30035752305615th Oct 20091 ounce NEW BRITISH MINT 24ct PURE GOLD 31.1 GRAMS 24k£797
skptraders30035799761521st Oct 20091 ounce NEW BRITISH MINT 24ct PURE GOLD 31.1 GRAMS 24k£797

Sample Listing

1 ounce NEW BRITISH MINT 24ct PURE GOLD 31.1 GRAMS 24k
1oz (31.1)Grams of pure Gold BARS. 999.9% Pure. By Baird Bullion Merchant London
Delivery: After cleared funds. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE UK PLEASE CONTACT BEFORE BUYING
Postage through royal mail and will include insurance.
Payment through PayPal OR
PERSONAL CHEQUE / BANK TRANSFER(PREFERRED)
Please contact me for further details.
THANK YOU FOR VIEWING

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 image of the reverse of a Baird Gold Bar, he used it to sell his own bars on eBay.
He did tell buyers it was not the same bar as he was hawking, but what if he doesn't even own a gold bar?
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 £0.99 each for his bars.
The first of his 5 gram auctions to close brought a high bid of £116, which means that after eBay fees, he probably got less than its intrinsic value.
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, or perhaps even Baird. although we usually have a better choice!

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.

Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

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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skptraders eBay Listing Using our Baird Gold Bar photograph
skptraders eBay Listing Using our Baird Gold Bar Photograph

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