dufus109 of Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom, stole our 2013 London Underground Uncirculated Two Pound Coin photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. Totally dishonest. 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 478 with 99.6% 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.
eBay Endemic
The London Underground coin was only released this year and we haven’t seen it being used on eBay or any other sites until now. Funnily enough within a few days it has shown up again – in a different listing by a different seller. It looks like a lot of eBay sellers just look through existing listings and steal their images to use.
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
London Underground £2 2 Pound coin train circulated
- Seller ID:
- dufus109
- Item Number:
- 141009693142
- Date:
- 13th July, 2013
- Description:
- London Underground £2 2 Pound coin train
- Price:
- £1.99
The seller was asking for a starting price of £1.99.
The seller is using a photograph of a high quality proof coin in order to sell his own circulated version, this is dishonest and we imagine there will be a disappointed buyer, if this coin sells.
Username:
dufus109Place:
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
