High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 1; with 100% positive according to eBay, although we suspect his friend, neighbour, dog, or self awarded it to him.

brody1944 eBay Copyright Thief - Stupid or Crook?
brody1944, of Levittown, PA, United States, stole our photograph of 3 x One Kilo Gold Bars to use on eBay, omitted to tell buyers that the image was not of the coin he was selling. Either stupid or a crook.
Nobody sells $92,000 worth of gold for $72,000 unless they are stupid or dishonest.
Nobody pays $72,000 for $92,000 worth of gold unless they are stupid, greedy. or very, very lucky.
If it's too good to be true, it won't be!

Sample Listing

1000 GRAM GOLD BARS
Up for auction are three 1000 gram gold bars from three different manufacturers. Condition is very good. Flexible payment arrangment available. 25% deposit required. Balance of payment due 15 work days after receipt of item. We will personally deliver anywhere in the world except war zones within ten working days of receipt of deposit. Items are completely guaranteed. Immediate full refund if you do not like the item. No local pick-ups. No escrow arrangements. We show one positive feedback but we were with Ebay from the late 90's until 2004. Then we had accumulated 1385 positive feedbacks with only a handful of neutrals and negatives. We will consider a bid for only one of the three.

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and 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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole our image of three kilo gld bars, he used it to sell his own bars on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that his bars were not be in the same bars as in our photographs. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
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 item, 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 £75,000 or $72,000 US for his bar listings, one purportedly "sold" for £75,000, and the buyer mide1-2009 (feedback 10) left feedback saying "nice product",

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.

More eBay Fraudsters! A partial index of some fraudulent or misleading eBay listings we happen to have noticed. A complete list would need an entire website of its own, and probably a large dedicated editorial staff.

Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

Selling Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

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 Scams

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
• 2007 Gold Sovereigns:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk