eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
jgeorgegrant in eBay Copyright Theft
jgeorgegrant of Grange Park, London, United Kingdom, stole our our 1966 Ethiopian Gold $10 Dollar Coin Obverse and Reverse Photograph to use on eBay, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same coin he was selling. Totally dishonest.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 1309 with 100% positive 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.
Sample Listing
1966 Ethiopian Gold $10 Dollar Coin - Haile Selassie
Proof Condition Gold Coin,
Size: - 19.88mm diameter,
Gold Content: - 0.1158 grams
Purity: - of 0.900 gold
Weight: - 4 grams
Features the Emperor Haile Selassie I.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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jgeorgegrant | 260576884737 | 3rd Apr 2010 | 1966 Ethiopian Gold $10 Dollar Coin - Haile Selassie | £0.99
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What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin 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.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our high quality images of our Our 1966 Ethiopian Gold $10 Dollar Coin Obverse and Reverse Photograph, he used it to sell his own coins on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was not his own photograph.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
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.
Although he was offering a $10 coin, he had actually used our $200 obverse and $100 reverse photos, even though we have a $10 reverse on our Ethiopia page.
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.99.
Stupid or Crooked?
If jgeorgegrant had posted his coin to us, we would have been happy to buy it.
Selling it through eBay, he will have had to pay eBay a selling fee which is a commission of 10%. If the buyer paid him through PayPal, he will also have had PayPal commission to pay (between 2.9% and 4.9%), so he would receive less than selling direct to us.
eBay is full of sellers stupid enough to think that they will get the best price selling by auction on eBay, often they are wrong because they have not checked market prices (perhaps jgeorgegrant tried to sell them to a local gold buyer and was only offered £1,000 or so). If he managed to find the photos on our websites, it would have been simple for him to pick up the telephone and ask what we were paying. The only downside for his is that we would expect his to pay the postage to us. The advantage to his would be getting more than using eBay, not having to create the listing, and getting paid more quickly.,
eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.
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