frogstriper1 of Boston, United Kingdom stole our 2007 Fifty Pence – 100th Anniversary of the Scouting Movement 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 2035 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.
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
2007 50p Coin
Excellent circulated condition
All very clean minimal scratches all sent out in plastic coin cases.
100 TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOYSCOUTING
All my listings are sent within 2 working days for fast delivery, proof of posting always collected.
Items sent out in jiffy bags for safe postage, even individual coins.
FIRST TWO COINS AT STANDARD POSTAGE TOO COVER RECORDED DELIVERY DUE TO RECENT LOSSES ANY ADDITIONAL COINS AFTER THIS 35p ONLY PER COIN
Please view my other listings and thanks for looking.
- Seller ID:
- frogstriper1
- Item Number:
- 201138513773
- Date:
- 28th August 2014
- Description:
- 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SCOUTING – 50P COIN – CIRCULATED BUT NICE CONDITION – CASED
- Price:
The seller was asking for a buy it now£1.99.
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 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:
frogstriper1Place:
Boston, United Kingdom
