harpersbzaar15 Using Copied 2004 Proof Krugerrand Image for Multiple Listings on eBay

harpersbzaar15 from the United kingdom stole our 2004 Proof Krugerrand photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. It is 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 Feedback 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.

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. It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar item, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.

Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers. 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.

Listing Description

harpersbzaar15 listed 5 of them on 1 day sales, and in our experience, this is often a good indicator that something is wrong, perhaps the coins are stolen, perhaps just the images.

He or she also claimed that there was a problem with their old mobile phone, and gave a new number. Any mobile in an ebay listing should be treated with suspicion in my view. Dodgy sellers may be hoping to do a cash deal in a pub car park. This would make them harder for police to trace, and they may also be trying to avoid ebay selling fees by claiming the buyer failed to complete.

Seller ID:
harpersbzaar15
Item Number:
151581486602
Date:
15th February 2015
Description:
Krugerrand
Price:
£ 820.00

The seller had 23 bids on this item and a highest bid of £820.00.

This particular ebay seller claimed to have 10 or so Krugerrands, all dated 1981. He used our obverse photo of a proof Krugerrand, and our photo of the reverse of a 1981 coin.

He listed 5 of them on 1 day sales, and in our experience, this is often a good indicator that something is wrong, perhaps the coins are stolen, perhaps just the images. Sometimes the coins are non-existent.

He had joined ebay less than a month previously, and his history comprised about 10 transactions, all as a buyer. It is quite easy to buy ten cheap items, possibly from your mates, get 10 positive feedbacks, and hope this will fool potential buyers.

Before we could get around to taking a screenshot of the individual listings, they had been removed, and sometime later we noticed that harpersbazaar15 was “No longer a registered user.”

It sounds as though someone else was on to him also.

To us, it was just another copyright thief.

 

Username:

harpersbzaar15
 

Place:

United Kingdom

 

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