martin9543 in eBay Copyright Theft
martin9543 of ammanford, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom stole our Chinese 10 Yuan - Marco Polo Reverse & Obverse Photographs to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own coins, and failed to mention the coin in the photograph was not one of the coins he 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 10, 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

RARE1983 MARCO POLO SOLID GOLD COIN 10 YUAN UNC
HERE I HAVE A RARE AND VERY COLLECTABLE SOLID GOLD COIN WHICH IS IN PROOF UNCIRCULATED CONDITION HAVING BEING LEFT IN IT`S ORIGINAL AIRTIGHT CAPSULE
THE COIN UP FOR AUCTION IS A VERY DESIRABLE MARCO POLO PROOF COIN
OBVERSE OF THE COIN FEATURES MARCO POLO HIMSELF,1254-1324 AND THE REVERSE FEATURES A CHINESE PAGODA,THIS BEING A CHINESE ISSUED COIN
PURITY:GOLD 900/1000
ISSUED:1983
ISSUING NATION :CHINA
VALUE:10 YUAN
DIAMETER:10 MM
WEIGHT:1 GRAM
QUALITY:PROOF
COMPLETE WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
A FANTASTIC GOLD BULLION INVESTMENT AND A GREAT COLLECTORS SOLID GOLD COIN,GRAB A BARGAIN,1 PENNY START..!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 bar, 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 for a starting price of £0.01.
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.

Repeat Offender
Some people never learn! Only a month after we reported the listing shown, this dishonest eBay member used our 1993 Gibraltar Coronation 40th Anniversary One Gram Gold Proof Coin reverse photograph.
Examples like this reinforce our opinion that either eBay do not take copyright theft seriously, and fail to warn their members about their dishonest behaviour, or that most eBay members are dishonest prats, possibly both.

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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