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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 79 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

Krugerrand 1/4 oz of pure gold 2009
2009 1/4 0z Krugerrand.Minted in 2009
Mass : 8.482 gram
Diameter : 22.00mm
Metal Content : Au 916.67
Cu 83.33
Limited Edition : 3,000

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 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Krugerrand Obverse Photograph, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of mint condition coin set were not his own photographs.
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.
Why does he not conjure up his own photograph?

Repeat Offender Only two days ago, we reported alarmco2008 to eBay for using our silver proof crown photos in a listing. Some eBayers must be very stubborn, thick-skinned, or just plain stupid, to think that they can continue stealing images from the same company, and expecting to get away with it, although he did presumably take the two lots of images from different websites, so perhaps he did not realise we were the same company.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £210.

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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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.

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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
• Our 2004 One Ounce Gold Proof Krugerrand Obverse Photograph Obverse:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk