janine5352 in eBay Copyright Theft
janine5352 of Lübeck, Germany, stole our 1971 South African One Ounce Krugerrand Reverse photograph without permission, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same coin he was selling.
He probably took it from the 1971 Sovereigns page.

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eBay Copyright Thieves
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We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.

Sample Listing

Krügerrand, 1oz fine gold, 1971,Goldmünze
Ich hab damals zur Komfirmation diese Münze geschenkt bekommen, da die Goldpreise momentan ganz gut sind, dachte ich, ich biete sie hier mal zum Verkauf an :-) Meine Küchenwaage zeigt mir ein gewicht von ca. 34 gramm an. auf der Münze steht: Krugerrand 1971, Fyngoud 1oz fine gold auf der anderen seite: suid-afrika, south afrika... ihr merkt, ich bin eine Privatperson und hab auch nicht so die große Ahnung, deshalb wird mir die Münze auch kaum fehlen :-) Nun viel Spaß beim bieten ! ich weise noch mal darauf hin, dass ich die münze als privatperson verkaufe, ich übernehme keinerlei garantie, ein umtausch ist ausgeschlossen.

Google Translation

Krugerrand, 1 oz fine gold, 1971 gold coin
I then get paid for Komfirmation this coin,
since the gold prices are currently quite well, I thought, I offer it for sale here at times :-)
My kitchen scale shows me a weight program to approximately 34th
is on the coin:
Krugerrand 1971 1oz fine gold Fyngoud
on the other side:
suid-afrika, south africa ...
you see, I am a private person and did not as the great idea to me why the coin is also barely missing :-)
Well have fun bidding!

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold bar 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 €1 for this listing.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may 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.
We should probably delay reporting this item until a buyer has sent some money. This may sound cynical of us, but if enough greedy buyers got conned, they might kick up enough fuss, go to the media, and get eBay the publicity it deserves. It is not our job to act as unpaid policemen for eBay.

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