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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

1975 1oz PURE GOLD KRUGERRAND UNCIRCULATED
You are bidding on one 1975 1oz. fine gold Krugerrand from South Africa. This coin has been with my family since it was purchased new in 1975.
Good Luck Bidding and if you have any questions please contact me. Thanks, Cindy
Total for shipping PRIORITY mail and INSURANCE $20.00
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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 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 1975 Mint Condition One Ounce Gold Krugerrand Reverse Photograph, she used it to sell her own coins on eBay. She did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was not her own photograph.
It's possible she 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, she 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 $0.99 each, and $9.95 each, for 5 different auctions.

Stupid or Crooked?
If e4elliott had posted her five coins to us, we would have been happy to buy them.Selling them through eBay, she will have had to pay eBay a selling fee which is a commission of 10%. If the buyer paid him through PayPal, she will also have had PayPal commission to pay (between 2.9% and 4.9%), so she would receive less than selling direct to us, or any comparable US dealer.
eBay is full of sellers stupid enough to think that they will get the best price selling by auction on eBay, often they are wrong because they have not checked market prices (perhaps e4elliott tried to sell them to a local gold buyer and was only offered £1,000 or so). If she managed to find the photos on our websites, it would have been simple for him to pick up the telephone and ask what we were paying. The only downside for her is that we would expect her to pay the postage to us. The advantage to her would be getting more than using eBay, not having to create the listing, and getting paid more quickly.,

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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