Nicosp1 Using Copied Images on eBay

nicosp1 of Limassol, Cyprus stole our Republic of Cyprus £50 Gold Coin photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. 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 12 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.

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.

Sample Listing

* WELCOME TO MY AUCTION ** Absolutely beautiful ** CYPRUS 50 POUNDS 1977 MAKARIOS GOLD *

* UNCIRCULATED *

* HOUSED IN ROYAL MINT RED ORIGINAL BOX *

* AUTHENTIC *

* RARE *

* REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS ** Weight: 16.00 gms of 22k*

* Composition .917 Fine 22k Gold. *

* This coin is for 34 years in my private collection *

 

* ONLY SAFE DATA POST SHIPPING COSTING $ 50 WORLDWIDE – WILL SHIP NEXT SATURDAY ON THE 8TH OF OCTOBER *

 

* NO RESERVE PRICE *

 

* THIS COIN IS MORE RARE THAN THE ONE IN BLUE BOX AS IT WAS MADE IN LESS MINTAGE AND ALSO A LOT OF THEN HAVE BEEN MELTED RECENTLY WITH THE GOLD RUSH *

 

* PLEASE HAVE A LOOK HOW WELL THE COIN AND BOX HAVE BEEN KEPT *

 

* BID WITH CONFITENCE *

 

* THANKS FOR LOOKING *

 

* PAYPAL ACCEPTED *

Seller ID:  nicosp1
Item Number: 320768355447
Date: 7th October 2011
Description:

CYPRUS 50 POUNDS 1977 MAKARIOS GOLD *UNC* MINT COIN IN RED ORIG BOX * AUTHENTIC

Price: $610.00 (approx £395.92)

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.

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