Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This Site? Using other people's copyright images is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer or website owner to sell the same goods or advice in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics. We would not recommend anybody to transact business with this person or company.

What's Wrong?
Buying Gold and Silver are using a number of our high quality copyright coin photographs on many of their web pages, including their "Home or Index" page, "Gold Dealers" page, Gold Sovereigns" page, "Knowledge Base" page, "Books" page, "Online Videos" page, "Prices" page, shown here, together with a significant number of other pages.These images are our copyright property, and are being used without our permission.
Who would have thought such honest (although they do not claim this) respectable people would resort to stealing images from their competitors?

Buying Gold and Silver's "About Us" Page
As with most of these useless, time-wasting, pseudo-expert, advertising portal webshites websites, there is no "About Us" page.

Borkers?
The entire site appears to have been created with such care and attention that we wondered what "Gold Dealers Borkers" were. We thought it might be some American distortion of the English language, but it eventually dawned on us that it was a typo for "Gold Dealers Brokers". Of course Mr Ke Yuan might well be a borker, whatever one of those is.
From the online Urban Dictionary we found:

From the realrates consultant website. Originally a typo for "broker". It describes a less than ethical technical recruiter. There are variations like borkette (female) and borkery (place of business). The verb 'borked' can mean "cheated by a borker".
The only jobs that I could find were sponsored by borkers that were paying far below market rates.
The bork insisted that I come to the office to fill out 20 pages of useless paperwork.
As soon as I mentioned to the borkette that I wanted a full disclosure clause in the contract agreement she stopped calling me.

Domain Lookup

Registrant: Ke Yuan
Domain Name: BUYINGGOLDANDSILVER.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SI-SV2426.COM
NS2.SI-SV2426.COM
For complete domain details go to:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=BUYINGGOLDANDSILVER.COM:

Registrant:
Ke Yuan
10600 Eastborne Ave. #7
Los Angeles, California 90024
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BUYINGGOLDANDSILVER.COM
Created on: 12-Oct-08
Expires on: 12-Oct-10
Last Updated on: 02-Sep-09
Administrative Contact:
Yuan, Ke yuanke@hotmail.com
10600 Eastborne Ave. #7
Los Angeles, California 90024
United States
(310) 210-3154
Technical Contact:
Yuan, Ke yuanke@hotmail.com
10600 Eastborne Ave. #7
Los Angeles, California 90024
United States
(310) 210-3154
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SI-SV2426.COM
NS2.SI-SV2426.COM
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

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.

Other Copyright Abuse

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

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