eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
wwiitrader in eBay Copyright Theft
wwiitrader, of Evansville, IN, United States,stole our 2004 Proof Krugerrand photographs to use on eBay, and used it to try sell a her own base metal version, without telling buyers it was not the same coin. Totally dishonest.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 465; with 86.4% positive according to eBay.
This is the lowest feedback percentage we can ever remember seeing on eBay. Such a low percentage is almost certainly a guarantee of dishonesty!
Sample Listing
2004 One Ounce South African Krugerrands - 5 total
Closing an Estate! This is your chance to pick up that Kruggerand (sic) that you've always wanted. One Ounce 2004 mint. Uncirculated condition. Bid with Confidence. Buy one or all 5 - your choice. Thanks for looking
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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wwiitrader | 290345925676 | 2nd Sep 2009 | 2004 One Ounce South African Krugerrands - 5 total | $995
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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 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 image of the reverse of a 2004 Proof Krugerrand , he used it to sell his own coin on eBay.
He did not bother to tell buyers it was not the same coin as he was hawking, although he states it to be a year 2000 proof version. It strikes us a rather stupid to illustrate an auction for a proof coin with a picture of a non-proof coin.
It's possible she 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 BIN (Buy It Now) price of $995 each for his coins.
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.
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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