Many eBay sellers, including dealers steal our copyright images, we suspect some of them may also be fraudsters. Does eBay care?
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 3,763; with 99.5% positive according to eBay.
PowerSellers According to eBay, PowerSellers are the pillars of the eBay community, but time and time again, we find PowerSellers stealing our images. It is so common, and eBay clearly know about it, that we believe eBay act unethically in permitting its members to steal images so easily, without sufficient checks, warnings, or education. This is as dishonest of eBay as it it of their members to steal copyright images in the first place.
Sample Listing:
1 Gram Pamp Suisse Gold bar Fresh pure gold 999.9%
DESCRIPTION
This auction is for brand new sealed 1 oz .9999 fine CREDIT SUISSE gold bullion bars.
1 oz. CREDIT SUISSE!!! IN ASSAY CARD!!!! FRESHGOLD BULLION
100% GUARANTEED
Uncirculated
AND
ORIGINAL FACTORY PACKING SEALED
100% feedBack. Bid with confidence.
THANKS FOR LOOKING
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
WE ACCEPT PAYPAL.
WE PREFER MONEY ORDER OR CASHIER'S CHECK. (PLEASE EMAIL FOR DISCOUNT IF YOU ARE USING THIS METHOD.)
We usally (sic) ship within 2 to 3 business days of cleared Payment.
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 other lazy and dishonest dealers decide to use them without a by your leave or thanks, and pass them off as their own work, doing so in competition with us.
The chances are that we could and would have supplied the listed coin at a lower price than this eBay vendor.
It is quite likely that the pictured coin, a 1780 Austrian silver Maria Theresa thaler, is not included in the lots, although, apart from our photograph, there is nothing to indicate whether or not one may be included.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
This particular dealer states:
"No tricks here. No fake, plated, colored or other small print rip-offs.We would say that stealing another dealer's images amounts to dishonest tricks, and it's a pity eBay feedback doesn't give any indication of honesty. It would be an improvement eBay published statistics on how many copyright infringement reports a member had attracted, or allowed IP rights owners the right to allocate a negative for copyright theft.
Ebay is all about feedback and I plan on keeping mine very high.
Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
Copyright Infringements Remedies Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.
Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay
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Copyright Thieves on eBay We already have a page naming and shaming dealers using our images without permission. It's time we did the same for eBay, although if we include them all, this could be a very long page.
Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites
Other Web Sites All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-
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www.24carat.co.uk - Gold Sovereigns:
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www.18carat.co.uk - 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
www.9carat.co.uk
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