V.I.P. Trades & Copyright Theft
V.I.P. Trades (viptrades.com) of Miramar, Florida is yet another dishonest website owner / dealer who has used our copyright images without permission.
Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This Dealer?
Using other people's copyright images is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer to sell the same goods in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics. We would not recommend anybody to transact business with this person or company.
Who would have thought such an honest (although they do not claim this) reputable
company would resort to stealing images from their competitors?
Surprisingly, their website does not appear to have an "About Us" page, although it does have their name and address on their "Contact Us" page.
Their website uses a banner on almost (if not) every page advertising using our 2008 Canadian One Ounce Gold Maple Leaf Coin, which we reproduce along with our own photograph.
What's Wrong?
It is dishonest and unethical to pirate and steal other people's work by using high quality copyright photographs without the owner's consent. To do so in competition with them is doubly devious. We can partially understand why they do it; it is quick and easy (but then so is robbing people).
In this case V.I.P. Trades and its owners could not be bothered to take the time and trouble of photographing a Canadian One Ounce Gold Maple Leaf themselves, or paying a professional photographer to do it for them, so they decided it was quicker and easier to steal ours instead. If you compare our (small) photograph with others on their website, you can easily see why they used ours! They probably also thought we would not notice.
For these reasons, we conclude the V.I.P. Trades are dishonest and unethical, and we recommend anybody to avoid doing business with them. If they will cheat us by stealing our photographs, what would they do to you for your gold coins or your money?
Their Gold Bars & Rounds page, together with numerous links to it, all use our PAMP Suisse Fortuna Gold Bar photograph.
Registrant:
Viptrades.com
Po Box 826832
Miramar, Florida 33082
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: VIPTRADES.COM
Created on: 01-Jun-99
Expires on: 01-Jun-11
Last Updated on: 30-Dec-09
Administrative Contact:
Trades, VIP sales@viptrades.com
Viptrades.com
Po Box 826832
Miramar, Florida 33082
United States
+1.9542821269
Technical Contact:
Trades, VIP sales@viptrades.com
Viptrades.com
Po Box 826832
Miramar, Florida 33082
United States
+1.9542821269
Domain servers in listed order:
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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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Copyright Infringements Remedies
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Other Copyright Abuse
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