jock1952 from Mount Gambier, stole our 1906 Half 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
I have for sale a 1906 half sovereign coin in very good condition, King Edward head on front. I recently had it assessed and valued (about 5 to 6 years ago), it is apparently quite a rare coin, -graded in MS66, the highest grade on the PCGS Chart, I do not have a PCGS number and can’t verify that they have assessed it, it was minted in Melbourne mint and was it valued in a high price range if I was prepared to wait for a top price. It came across from Britain with my parents and I had it in my coin collection. I don’t want to wait around, I am discontinuing my coin collection and have sold a lot already, this had some family value but no-one in the family is interested so I want it all gone asap so my price is much lower than the assessed price. Photos are the best I can do, coins are awkward things to photograph.
- Seller ID:
- jock1952
- Item Number:
- 271688694941
- Date:
- 4th December 2014
- Description:
- 1906 Half Sovereign (rare)
- Price:
- AUS$1,295 – Approximately £705.78 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.
The seller is using one of our photgraphs but yet cheekily states, ” Photos are the best I can do, coins are awkward things to photograph.” Much to our photographers dismay.
Username:
joack1952Place:
Mount Gambier, South Australia
