eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
worth-of-money in eBay Copyright Theft
worth-of-money of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, stole our Valcambi & Umicore One Gram Gold Bars Photographs to sell his own bars on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the bars in the photographs were not the ones he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
It looks like he also copied the descriptive text from our page.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 572, 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
1 GRAM VALCAMBI SA 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED*
1 GRAM VALCAMBI SA
24 K GOLD BAR
999.9 % PURE CERTIFIED 24K GOLD
** BRAND NEW & CERTIFIED SEALED PACK **
UK SELLER
WORLD WIDE SECURED AND TRACK
ABLE (sic) DELIVERY
Disguised?
This particular eBay thief not only stole our high quality images, but also modified one of them to look like his own work, This is not permissible because to alter it, it is first necessary to copy it which breaches copyright.
Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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worth-of-money | 170531274184 | 23rd Aug 2010 | 1 GRAM VALCAMBI SA 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £39.99
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worth-of-money | 170531275359 | 23rd Aug 2010 | 1 GRAM UMICORE 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £39.99
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worth-of-money | 170543787230 | 22nd Sep 2010 | 1 GRAM UMICORE 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £44.99
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worth-of-money | 170543787241 | 22nd Sep 2010 | 1 GRAM VALCAMBI SA 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £44.99
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worth-of-money | 170555952895 | 22nd Oct 2010 | 1 GRAM UMICORE 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £44.99
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worth-of-money | 170555952878 | 22nd Oct 2010 | 1 GRAM VALCAMBI SA 24K PURE GOLD BAR *BRAND NEW/SEALED* | £44.99
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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 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.
Quick Cancellation
For some reason worth-of-money listed 3 gold coin items on eBay on 16th September 2010 between 1.17 and 2.07, and then ended all three listings the same day between 2.02 and 2.05 a.m. We do realise these times are slightly inconsistent, but that's eBay for you!
Price
The seller was asking a Buy It Now price of £39.99 each for his bars.
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.
Relisted Items Three Times - Triple Cheat
We reported the first two item listings to eBay, and the listings were removed.
This did not seem to stop or deter worth-of-money from relisting them a second time. Even if he had already relisted them, he could and should have removed our images from his relistings, but for some reason, possibly poor or weak communication from eBay, he failed to do so.
A month later, he again relisted the same pair of item listings, again using our photographs.
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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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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