gerhardk1923 in eBay Copyright Theft
gerhardk1923 of Pfaffroda-Dörnthal, Germany, United Kingdom, stole our South African 2 Rand Coin Photograph to sell her own coin on eBay, without our permission, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not the one she owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 60, with 100% positive, according to eBay.

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

Goldmünze Kruegerrand Sout Afrika 1R
Hallo ebayer
verkaufe hier diese Muenze wie auf dem Foto jedoch 1R. Bitte unbedingt beachten und das Praegejahr ist 1972. Meiner Meinung nach hat sie sehr aehnlichkeit wie die 2R Goldmuenze die ich auch verkaufe und dazu auch eine
ausfuehrliche Artikelbeschreibung habe bitte ansehen. Wie genau das auf die 1R Muenze zutriffrt weis ich nicht bitte ergooglen. Bei Fragen 015202638878. Die Muenze ist in einer Kapsel und im guten Zustand keine Kratzer..usw.
Da Privat keine Garantie oder ruecknahmme
Viel Spass-

English Translation
Goldmünze Kruegerrand Sout Afrika 1R
Hello ebayer
For sale is this coin in the photograph, however, 1R. Please take care and Praegejahr is 1972nd In my opinion it has very similar to the 2R gold coin that I sell and also to a
Detailed product description did watch please. How exactly is the coin 1R zutriffrt looking ergooglen I do not know. For questions 015,202,638,878th The coin is .. in a capsule and in good condition no scratches, etc. Because private no guarantee or ruecknahmme
Fun-

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold 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.
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, 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 €150.00 for this item.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.

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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