Many eBay sellers, including those with a Top-rated seller rosette infringe our IP (Intellectual Property) rights by using our copyright images.
We invest considerable time and money in our photographs, and do not appreciate their misappropriation by eBay members or others, especially when they are using our effort to compete with us.
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.
Top Rated Seller 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.
| Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price |
| * | ||||
| pokojec69 | 120555746983 | 11th Apr 2010 | GOLD HALF SOVEREIGN QUEEN ELIZABETH 1983 | £99.99 |
Dishonest eBay PowerSellers
Is this tautological?You might be surprised at the number of eBay so-called PowerSellers who are dishonest and lazy enough to steal our images instead of taking their own photographs. According to eBay, their PowerSellers are "the pillars of our community". Pillocks more like!
But then, the more we see of eBay, the more we think of a den of thieves.
Notes
Seller ID. There is nothing to stop eBay members changing their "Seller ID", or opening a new account.
Item Number. We may have shown only one out of many similar items.
Date = End date or date added to this page if item still current.
Description = Description as used by the seller as his item title.
Price = Final selling price if known, otherwise "Current Price", or "Starting bid".
Highest eBay Feedback Member & PowerSeller in Copyright Abuse Over 16,000 and still stealing images!
eBay Fail to Remove Reported Infringements
We look forward to suing the pants off the greedy and negligent b**stards.
Here is one example 2003 Proof Krugerrand
Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites
Auctiva, eBay, & Copyright Be careful about using Auctiva if you do not respect IP rights.
View More Items From This Seller Similarly, be more careful if you use this eBay marketing feature.
Copyright Abuser Categories With more than 500 examples of copyright fheft, we are having to split the types and categories of copyright thieves.
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