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coinstar109 in eBay Copyright Theft
coinstar109 of Knutsford, United Kingdom, used about 20 of our Proof Crown & other coin images without permission, failed to tell buyers that the coins pictured were not the ones they would receive.
He also copied and pasted all the content of many of our web pages either in addition or in place of our photographs.
What was particularly sneaky and devious of coinstar109 was that he used his own photos in his gallery listings, making it more difficult and less likely for us to find them, and used our pictures in his item descriptions.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 231; with 99.4% 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
| Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price |
| coinstar109 | 150418870660 | 7th Mar 2010 | 1977 SILVER JUBILEE CROWN COIN SILVER PROOF + COA | £11 |
| coinstar109 | 150421817741 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass | £2 |
| coinstar109 | 150421817741 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass | £2 |
| coinstar109 | 150421817741 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass | £2 |
| coinstar109 | 150421825049 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1993 £5 Coin Coronation 40th Anniversary Crown | £3.50 |
| coinstar109 | 150422204151 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1993 £5 Coin Coronation 40th Anniversary Crown | £4 |
| coinstar109 | 150421817899 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass | £2 |
| coinstar109 | 150421820343 | 20th Mar 2010 | £2 Coin Tercentenary 1989 Two Pounds Coin | £3.21 |
| coinstar109 | 150421546661 | 20th Mar 2010 | 1998 £5 Coin Prince Charles's 50th Birthday +Case +COA | £19.50 |
| coinstar109 | 150421543833 | 20th Mar 2010 | 2004 Entente Cordiale Five Pound Crown Silver Proof | £36.05 |
| coinstar109 | 150423792094 | 21th Mar 2010 | 1981 Charles & Diana Commemorative | £1 |
| coinstar109 | 150421816343 | 27th Mar 2010 | 1990 £5 Coin Queen Mother's 90th Birthday Crown | £4 |
| coinstar109 | 150421549812 | 27th Mar 2010 | 2002 Golden Jubilee Crown £5 Silver Proof Case + COA | £18 |
| coinstar109 | 150426500672 | 28th Mar 2010 | 1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass | £2 |
| coinstar109 | 150426500550 | 28th Mar 2010 | 1981 Charles & Diana Commemorative | £1 |
| coinstar109 | 150425762620 | 28th Mar 2010 | 1998 £5 Coin Prince Charles's 50th Birthday Crown | £5 |
| coinstar109 | 150428087054 | 30th Mar 2010 | 1990 £5 Coin Queen Mother's 90th Birthday Crown | £4 |
Sample Listing
1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass
1986 Two Pounds Coin in Nickel Brass
1986 Two Pounds Coin
Nickel Brass Issues 1986 to 1996
above pics for illustration only
Please note: Unless otherwise stated, it is the responsibility of the buyer to request insured delivery, otherwise items will be posted first class at the buyers risk.
TERMS:-
Goods will be despatched upon clearance of funds.
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
This is a private listing and your identity will not be disclosed to anyone except the seller.
What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic 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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole about 20 our high quality copyright photographs of 10 different coins, but failed to inform potential buyers that the coins in the photographs were not the ones he owns, or that they will be bidding on. This is deception.
Sadly, it is also typical of eBay!
On the listing we show, he did not use our text, on some listings, he stole our text, but not our photos. Weird!
Bandwidth Bandit!
Most image thieves avoid calling our images from our server, but it happens occasionally. This steals our bandwidth as well as our images. It probably also saves the crook from paying extra to eBay in image hosting costs, despite there being many third party free image hosting websites.
On the positive side, it gives us a rare opportunity for a little fun at the expense of the image bandit. It does involve us in a little extra work, but the fun we get from it outweighs the effort, and we also get the opportunity to share it with others:-
Coinstar109 - After
After we changed our images.
Price
He used a starting price of £2.
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