eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
volksman00 in eBay Copyright Theft
volksman00 of doncaster, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, stole & disguised our 1910 & 1912 Gold Sovereign Reverse Photographs to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his own 1910 Edward VII & 1912 George V half sovereigns. Totally dishonest.
He failed to state or warn potential buyers that the superb condition coins in our high quality photographs were not the coins you would receive, or that the photographs were full sovereigns not half sovereigns. This is deception.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 75, with 100% positive, according to eBay.
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 half sovereign coin 1910 MINT CONDITION
here is a 22ct gold half sovergein (sic) coin dated 1910.
it is excellent mint condition as it has been inside an old wallet for the last 50 years or so with another one from 1912 - also listed in my other items.
the detailling (sic) is superb with no visable (sic) marks or scratches on them anywhere.
any questions please ask and i will get back to you asap.
thanks for looking.
listing could be removed early as a local collector has viewed them and may wish to purchase, and advertised in magazine
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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volksman00 | 260672483810 | 3rd Oct 2010 | gold half sovereign coin 1910 MINT CONDITION | £0.99
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volksman00 | 260672484536 | 3rd Oct 2010 | gold half sovereign coin 1912 MINT CONDITION | £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 bar, 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 items.
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.
Innovative Spelling!
We must congratulate this particular eBay seller for his inventive mis-spelling of the word sovereign as "sovergein", it's one spelling we never thought of!
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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