simon83362013 from Watford stole our 2012 Two Pounds Coin – Handover to Rio and 2008 Two Pounds Coin – Olympic Games Handover Ceremony photographs 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.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member’s feedback was 257 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
Both circulated but in lovely condition.
Makes a great addition to any Olympic 50p collection you may have. They also form part of the Great British £2 coin hunt.
Great addition to any collection.
Uk and PayPal buyers only please
- Seller ID:
- simon83362013
- Item Number:
- 141599999268
- Date:
- 24th March 2015
- Description:
- RARE OLYMPIC HANDOVER £2 COIN OLYMPIC BEIJING LONDON RIO – 2008 2012 2016
- Price:
- £ 11.99
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of £11.99.
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 photographs of high quality proof coins in order to sell his own circulated version, this is dishonest and we imagine there will be a disappointed buyer, if these coins sell.
