popaj72 Using Stolen Images on eBay

popaj72 of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom stole our 1915 Austrian Four Ducat Gold 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 124 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

Austria-Hungarian Empire 1915 Gold Four Ducat – Emperor Franz Joseph

Obverse
The laureate head, facing right, of Emperor Franz Joseph I

Reverse
The arms of Austria superimposed upon a crowned double-headed Imperial eagle.

High Carat Gold
Ducats were produced in high purity gold, 23³/₄ carats, making them among the highest purity gold coins ever issued for circulation.

Thickness
Because they have inherited their design and appearance from medieval gold coins, they are very thin compared with modern coins, at just 0.7 mms. thick.

Technical Specifications

Diameter	Weight	Fineness	Gold Content
40.0	13.9636	.986	.4430

UK- Royal Mail 1st Class Recorded Delivery

Rest of the World – Royal Mail International Signed-for Delivery

Seller ID: popaj72
Item Number: 200696845894

Date: 17th January, 2012
Description: 1915 Austrian Four Gold Ducat

Price: £600.00.

Price
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of £600.00.

Even after 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.