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therealdaywalker in eBay Copyright Theft
therealdaywalker, of "Saulheim, Germany", stole our 2005 Proof Half Sovereign Photographs to use on eBay, and used it to try sell a his own coin. Totally dishonest.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 875; with 100% positive according to eBay.

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
therealdaywalker26047662813813th Sep 2009Australien Gold Nugget 2007 1/10 Unze St €1

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Australien Gold Nugget 2007 1/10 Unze St
Ich löse meine Goldmünzen Sammlung auf, zum Verkauf kommt hier:
- Australien Nugget, Gold (99,99%) 1/10 oz (3,11g), Durchmesser 16,1mm, Stempelglanz in ungeöffneter Münzkapsel, Jahrgang 2007
mit Originalrechnung über 129€
Beachtet auch meine anderen Auktionen um Porto zu sparen.
Ebay zahle ich, Porto Käufer


English (Google) Translation
I cancel my gold coins collection is for sale
Here:
- Australia Nugget Gold (99.99%) 1 / 10 oz (3.11 g),
Diameter of 16.1 mm, Stempelglanz in unopened
Münzkapsel, Vintage 2007
with the original invoice for 129 €
Respected my other auctions to save postage.
Ebay, I'll pay postage buyer

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 obverse and reverse of a 2005 Proof Half Sovereign, he used them to sell his own coins, three of them on eBay.
He did not tell buyers it was not the same coin as he was hawking, but what if he doesn't even own any gold coins?
He also did not point out that our photograph was of a proof coin, while his was only a non-proof (bullion) version.
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 €1 for his coin.
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, 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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