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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

1986 Australian 1 Ounce Proof Gold Coin - RARE
1986 Australian Gold Poof Coin - Nugget Series - Perth Mint
1 ounce 9999 pure gold
Mint condition
Great bullion and collectors investment
No reserve auction
International buyers welcome
Save on combined item postage just ask
All types of payment acceptable
Payment terms 3 days

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 image of a 1986 proof one ounce gold Australian nugget coin, he used it to try to sell his own coin set on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition proof coin was of the same coin he was selling.
Most buyers will see the photo of a mint condition coin, and assume that this is the coin on offer, and not read all the description.
Quite often we are offered proof coin sets where the owners have taken the coins out of their capsules and fingerprinted them, or worse.
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.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of AU $0.99 for his coin, but if eBay charge 10% selling commission in Australia as they do in the UK, then he may have been better off selling the coin direct to us or an Australian dealer.

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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Other Web Sites All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

• Chards
  www.chards.co.uk
• Investment Gold Bars & Coins (This Site)
  taxfreegold.co.uk
• General Coins & Jewellery:
  www.24carat.co.uk
• 1986 Australian One Ounce Proof Gold Nugget:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk