Smitho40 in eBay Copyright Theft
Smitho40 stole our gold sovereign photographs, then claimed. on eBay, his coin was in better condition, the cheeky ******* ****.
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PowerSellers
According to eBay, PowerSellers are the pillars of the eBay community, but time and time again, we find PowerSellers stealing our images. It is so common, and eBay clearly know about it, that we believe eBay act unethically in permitting its members to steal images so easily, without sufficient checks, warnings, or education. This is as dishonest of eBay as it it of their members to steal copyright images in the first place.
Sample Listing
1897 QUEEN VICTORIA OLD FULL 22 CARAT GOLD SOVEREIGN 8g
SPECIAL COIN FROM LIMITED MINTING YEAR 1893 - 1901
THIS QUEEN VICTORIA OLD HEAD SOVEREIGN COIN IS IN ABSOLUTE MINT CONDITION, IT WAS A GIFT TO MY SON FROM HIS GRANDAD AND NOW HE WANTS TO SELL IT TO BUY GAMES FOR HIS XBOX, FULL DESCRIPTION BELOW COIN WILL BE IN A BLUE BOX NOT SHOWN ON PHOTO.
THE PICTURE IS NOT OF THE COIN I AM SELLING, MY COIN LOOKS MUCH BETTER BUT MY CAMERA IS NOT WORKING AT THE MOMENT SO I HAVE JUST COPIED 1 THAT IS IDENTICAL TO IT, I WILL REIMBERSE (sic) IF NOT TOTALLY SATISFIED BUT I CAN ASSURE U IT IS IN ABSOLUTE PERFECT CONIDITION (sic) AS MY EX FATHER IN LAW LOOKED AFTER ALL OF HIS COINS VERY CAREFULLY
METAL : 22 CARAT GOLD
WEIGHT : 8g
DIAMETER : 22.5 cm
MINTING YEAR : 1893 - 1901
OBVERSE : QUEEN VICTORIA OLD HEAD
REVERSE : GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
I WILL BE POSTING BY ROYAL MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY ONLY,
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, he has almost certainly deluded himself that his coin is in better condition than the one in our photograph. It's as likely that his wife looks better than Laetitia Casta, Elle MacPherson, or Heidi Klum. She's probably a total dog!
Having convinced himself, he then goes on to try to convince possible buyers (after all, there is one mug born every minute)
We can tell you that the sovereign we photographed was the best out of tens of thousands of sovereigns. We use skills, experience and techniques which have taken us many years to acquire and hone, to take some of the best coin photographs anywhere, and then some eBay prat tells us that not only is his coin better than ours, but that the air-brushing job we did on our images has failed to make our coin look better than the real thing. It's insulting, and we feel offended.
He does at least admit that his camera "is not working at the moment", although in reality, he is probably so stupid that he does not realise why it will not focus closely enough.
We get this about once each week.
Price
If the coin was as good as he believes, we would have happily paid him more than he got for it, as old sovereigns in Uncirculated grade without bag-marks, are much rarer than most people realise.
Even it it had been a dog, we would have paid him about £130 for it, and he could have saved the effort, and the eBay fees.
A better use for the money would have been to buy a dictionary, or a new computer keyboard, as his seems to have got the shift-lock jammed on, like Archy the cockroach (now there's a good analogy!).
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