a1-collectors from Newton Aycliffe stole our 2002 Scotland Commonwealth Games Two Pound Coin Reverse photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. It is totally dishonest. Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member’s feedback was 190 with 100% Positive Feedback 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.
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. It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar item, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers. 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.
Sample Listing
www.A1-Coins.co.uk brings you
£2 COIN 2002
COMMONWEALTH GAMES – SCOTLAND – SCOTTISH
COIN HUNT
This coin number 04 of the 32 issued.
[RARE COIN]THIS IS A TWO POUND COIN, THAT HAS BEEN CIRCULATED
IT HAS A LEGAL TENDER VALUE OF £2
The coin will be supplied in USED condition
We have a number of these coins, so we have used a stock photo.
Your coin will be drawn at random from our collection.VERY COLLECTABLE
POSTAGE CAN BE COMBINED ON MY ITEMS, CONTACT ME TO SORT OUT THE CORRECT PRICE FOR YOU.
- Seller ID:
- a1-collectors
- Item Number:
- 281760364683
- Date:
- 27th August 2015
- Description:
- 2002 £2 COMMONWEALTH GAMES SCOTLAND TWO POUND COIN HUNT 04/32 RARE BI-METAL 2
- Price:
- £15
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of £15.00. There is also an option to make an offer.
Even before 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.
It states in the description text “We have a number of these coins, so we have used a stock photo.” No mention of the photo being credited to Chard (1964) Ltd.
Username:
a1-collectorsPlace:
Newton Aycliffe, United Kingdom
