I bought from Anthony before too. He's prices on his site are expensive, but he also sells on E-bay. Some of the coins he put for actions, that's when I bid and win some coins for a cheaper price. He also send you a note with your coin, saying to leave him a 5 stars rating on a E-bay. Here is one of his action on E-bay for a new Tuvalu Chinese Dragon. http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHINESE-DRA...779?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item519f1c1163
I bought for him two times. And all very good comunication and cheap shipping. But i win the auctions. The buy now price is more expensive but depend of shipping. If i not remember bad. They ship from hungarian. Not italy.
I bought from him once and their service was fantastic. I used google translater to talk to him and it worked fine. I would type my message, have it translated to Italian and then email it to him. He would respond in Italian and I would translate it with the google translator. This is how my family speaks to our extended family in Italy.
The image is exactly the same as the PerthMint image. Look at the angle of the coin and the shadows around the edging. Identical! Unless he had express permission to use those images they have every right to demand he not use their image or face breaches of Copyright Law. The reason I know of this, I ran a website where we uploaded thousands of images in a different industry. Some we were given permission. whilst others we decided to use them anyway. When your business depends on those images to help boost your sales over your competitors, it can can come back and bite you as we found out. A few competitors contacted the companies concerned and we were forced to remove all the images from our website, otherwise face a lawsuit combined with being blacklisted. Was not such a good idea. Food for thought! Cheers markcoinoz
Powercoin is an authorised distributer for Perth Mint. I dont think they will have a problem with him using their images as he is helping them sell their products. http://www.perthmint.com.au/perth-mint-coin-distributors-italy.aspx
Hi pushington, Since they are authorised as you have pointed out, it is really a non-issue. Cheers markcoinoz
Yes but not just using, the watermarking so that they come up as a powercoin image when searching google images is what i was refferal to, a normal person would assume they images were taken by powercoin (as it has their watermark). 1for1
You probably right, his is a gentleman but not because he answers your question quickly. He does it because he is a BUSINESSMAN. I assume your questions were related to owl-wolverine-hedgehog coins? Yes, you right. He is very expensive. Especially if you consider how many coins they are buying from Mints. You can easily find small dealers/shops having 5 same coins in stock offering better price than him having 50 coins in stock. IMHO they should not be doing this - watermark, as they use images provided by others like Perth or CIT. I ma quite surprise I can't find any post from Alex - power coin "ambassador" on this forum Is this man "one man army"? Did anyone gets any replay from other people or from him only
Very strange, this is your business so in your own interest is to answer all questions. If you do not answer my question, I am simply not buying anything from you. Maybe the culture is different here in Europe...
Acme, The world has changed.... You do have some fine business people though. Just got to hit the right ones...
IMO Talisman World Coin would be smart to spend more time working on their shady business practices than chasing down image infringement.
