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Sample Listing

AUSTRALIAN LUNAR GOLD COINS SERIES 12 COINS 1/20 oz
12 - YEAR COLLECTION - WOW - *****VERY RARE****

AWESOME Coins shown are 1 oz, they are shown only for your viewing images.

"THE AUSTRALIAN LUNAR GOLD COIN SERIES"

12 - YEAR COLLECTION Displayed in a beautiful wood box with slide top to view the coins.

1966 YEAR OF THE RAT

1997 - OX

1998 - TIGER

2000 - DRAGON

2001 - SNAKE

2002 - HORSE

2003 - GOAT

2005 - ROOSTER

2006 - DOG

2007 - PIG

For questions or picture of display box please e-mail shar_max@gmail.com 928.587.2120 will answer in 14 hrs or less.

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 12 of our Australian gold lunar coins photographs, then omitted, on eBay, to alert buyers that the coins shown were not the same coins as being auctioned.
It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own similar items, and have the intention to defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, but 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 BIN (Buy It Now) price of $1,199 US (equivalent to about £730) for this collection, in the July 2009 when gold was about $930 per ounce, eBay would make about $30 in fees, possibly plus PayPal fees.The intrinsic gold content would have been about $560, so his asking price represented about 115% premium. Although twentieth ounce coins tend to be quite expensive when new, we as dealers would only have asked about 67% premium for them.
Typically, this eBay vendor was being greedy, and the collecttion was not a bargain on eBay, as an itelligent buyer could have got one from a reputable dealer like us for about 22% less than on eBay.

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity We reported this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and eBay have, not for the first time, chosen to ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity.

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