jock1952 from Mount Gambier, stole our 1912 Gold Sovereign 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 186 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
You are bidding on a 1912 Gold Sovereign with .2353 troy ounces of gold, in very good condition, King George large head on front. Sydney mint, according to the assessor who looked at it recently and valued it higher than my reserve price. It came from Great Britain with my parents but I have no further need for it as I am discontinuing my coin collection. Pictures are as good as I can do. Prefer payment by money order
- Seller ID:
- jock1952
- Item Number:
- 271688688164
- Date:
- 4th December 2014
- Description:
- 1912 Gold Sovereign
- Price:
- AUS$495- Approximately £269.78 At the time of writing, no bids had been placed.
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.
Username:
joack1952Place:
Mount Gambier, South Australia
