eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
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.
Whatever the item "sold" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
We do not see it as our job to warn eBay specifically about this, as they tend to either ignore our reports, or do nothing.
While we sympathise anybody who sends money to such crooks and gets ripped of, it is partially their own fault for being stupid enough and greedy enough to get caught, and partially eBay's fault for having such sloppy anti-fraud measures.
This particular eBay seller and all his listings reek strongly of fraud.
aggtech2 in eBay Copyright Theft Rothschilds Gold Bar
aggtech2 of College Station, TX, United States, stole our Rothschilds 100 Gram Gold Bar Photograph to use on eBay, without permission to try sell his own bars. Totally dishonest.He failed to state or warn potential buyers that the superb condition gold proof coin in our high quality photograph was not the coin you would receive. This is deception.Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 0, 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
Boat Shaped Gold Tael Bar
Item specifics
Geography: United States Type: 999.9 Gold Bar
Year: 2010 Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
Weight: 100 Grams
* * * ROTHSCHILD'S 50 GRAM BAR HAS BEEN SOLD * * *
I hope that I can clear this up so that you can make an Informed decision regarding your Investment. The most Important fact you need to know is 24 carat gold does not exist except in theory or possibly in infinitesimally small amounts in scientific laboratories. This should be followed by a statement of its purity indicating or specifying the degree of precision. Other solutions to the dilemma would be to ask the questioner what he means by 24 carat, or perhaps a quicker solution would be to ask whether he meant to ask for four-nines.
Summary
Carats Percentage Per Thousand Decimal Pronounce
24 100 1000 1.000 Pure or Fine
23.9976 99.99 999.9 .9999 Four Nines
23.988 99.95 999.5 .9995 Three Nines Five
23.88 99.5 995 .995 Nine Nine Five
Wrong Question
If you are looking for or asking for 24 carat gold bars, you are asking the wrong question, in which case you are likely to get a wrong answer. To understand the answer to this question, you need to understand something about truth, accuracy, and honesty. If you ask the question in imprecise terms, you should not be surprised if the answer you receive is at a similar level of imprecision or approximation. Perhaps we are being slightly pedantic, but I prefer to give accurate information, and the shortest answer is not often the most precise.Rothschild's 999.9 fine gold bar Dimensions
The approximate dimensions of Rothschild bars in millimetres and inches respectively, are:-
Weight Length Width Depth
1 Kilogram 116 mms 4.1" 51 mms 2.0" 8 mms . 33"
100 Gram 33 mms 1.7" 22 mms .9" 6 mms .25"
10 Tola 24 mms 1" 24 mms 1" 6 mms 0.25"
5 Tola 24 mms 1" 24 mms 1" 5.3 mms 0.22"
50 Gram 24 mms 1" 24 mms 1" 5 mms 0.2"
1 Ounce 25.5 mms 1.05" 25.5 mms 1.05" 4.2 mms 0.175"
Changes
Revision summary for item #320601338224
The seller has revised the following item information:
Date Time Revised Information
Oct-09-10 12:19:29 PDT Title
Oct-10-10 07:48:38 PDT Details Changed Circulated/Uncirculated from -- to Uncirculated
Oct-11-10 06:43:44 PDT Description
Oct-11-10 06:47:22 PDT Description
Oct-12-10 08:45:32 PDT Minimum Bid Price Gallery Title PictureURL: Pictures Added/Deleted
Description
Oct-12-10 09:18:45 PDT PictureURL: Pictures Added/Deleted Description
Oct-12-10 20:54:05 PDT Minimum Bid Price Gallery PictureURL: Pictures Added/Deleted Description
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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 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.Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers.
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 $2,955 for his item. His description did not specify what size or weight it was, although the "Item Specifics" did state 58.32 grams.Whatever the item "sold" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
Quick Starter
Considering this guy has a feedback of zero, and only joined eBay in October 2010 (this month), has alleges to have already sold a Rothschild 50 gram bar, and has a Boat Shaped Gold Tael Bar listing which ended on 13th October. This listing used our photograph of a 100 gram Rothschild bar !Crook, Fraudster, Conman, Idiot?
We don't know for sure whether aggtech2 is a fraudster, an idiot, or both, but we have extremely strong suspicions that he does not own any of the gold items he is purporting to offer for sale, and is therefore a would be fraudster.We do not see it as our job to warn eBay specifically about this, as they tend to either ignore our reports, or do nothing.
While we sympathise anybody who sends money to such crooks and gets ripped of, it is partially their own fault for being stupid enough and greedy enough to get caught, and partially eBay's fault for having such sloppy anti-fraud measures.
This particular eBay seller and all his listings reek strongly of fraud.
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.Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
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aggtech2 eBay Listing Using our PAMP Suisse Fortuna Five Tolas Gold Bar in Combined Display Card & Certificate Photograph
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