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

Who would have thought such an honest (although they do not claim this) reputable company would resort to stealing images from their competitors?
The "Contact Us" page of their / his website, is a typically unhelpful one-way communication page, and we could find no "About Us" page.
We advise surfers treat sites using pirated images with extreme suspicion, and the same for website which fail to disclose the owner's or operator's names and addresses.
The "Swiss Franc" page of their website features a consisting of a photo of a pile of Swiss gold 20 franc coins, sourced from our website, which we reproduce along with our own photograph.
The "What is the British Pound Sterling? What influences the British Pound?" page of his / their website also uses a photograph of a silver proof pound coin pirated from one of our websites.

Domain Name Record
According to Whois Search:

Registrant:
Marco Palmer
PO Box 530
Bonnyrigg, New South Wales 2177
Australia
Domain Name: FOREXTRADINGHQ.COM
Created on: 09-Feb-06
Expires on: 09-Feb-17
Last Updated on: 05-Dec-07
Administrative Contact:
Palmero, Marco
e-mail: pettycashbox@gmail.com
PO Box 530
Bonnyrigg, New South Wales 2177
Australia
+61.420302810 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Palmero, Marco
PO Box 530
Bonnyrigg, New South Wales 2177
Australia
+61.420302810 Fax --
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET

"Marco Palmero" owns about 28 other domains

What's Wrong?
It is dishonest and unethical to pirate and steal other people's work by using high quality copyright photographs without the owner's consent. To do so in competition with them is doubly devious. We can partially understand why they do it; it is quick and easy (but then so is robbing people).
In this case Marco Palmero, owner of "Forex Trading HQ" could not be bothered to take the time and trouble of photographing a gold coins, himself, or paying a professional photographer to do it for him, so decided it was quicker and easier to steal ours instead. They probably also thought we would not notice.
For these reasons, we conclude that Marco Palmero, and Forex Trading HQ are dishonest and unethical, and we recommend anybody to avoid doing business with them. If they will cheat us by stealing our photographs, what would they do to you for your gold coins or stamps, or your money?

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

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