e-bay-g from Leicester stole our 2001 Victorian Centenary – Milestones of the Millennium Silver Medallion 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 511 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
2001 Victorian Centenary Silver MedallionDescription
Obverse
A portrait of a Victoria Jubilee Head facing right, with the inscription:
VICTORIA D: G :BRITT: REG: G :F 😀Reverse
Inscription:
IN MEMORIAM
VICTORIAN CENTENARY
1901 – 2001
NUMISMATIC & PHILATELIC
MILESTONES OF THE MILLENNIUM
ONE TROY POUND
.999 PURE FINE SILVER
Price on Chard’s website is currently £405 http://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=2001victoriancentenarysilvermedallions.html
Please also see our other items!Specifications
Description
Diameter
Weight
Alloy
ASW
2001 Victorian Centenary Silver Medallion
88mm
373.24 grams
0.999
12 troy ounces
- Seller ID:
- e-bay-g
- Item Number:
- 261758507489
- Date:
- 10th February 2015
- Description:
- 2001 Victorian Centenary – MILESTONES OF MILLENNIUM – ONE TROY POUND .999 silver
- Price:
- £67.55
At the time of writing, the seller had four bids on the item.
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.
The seller has also used our text, however they did reference our webiste. We still did not give permision to use our images!
Username:
e-bay-gPlace:
Leicester, United Kingdom
