cyqb.geo Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller cyqb.geo of St-Hippolyte, QC, Canada, not only stole our Uncirculated 1918 Sovereign Bombay India Mint Reverse image without permission, but failed to tell buyers his coin was not the same coin.
He also used our text without permission.

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 41; with 100% positive according to eBay.
It also demonstrates that high eBay feedback is no indicator of honesty.

Sample Listing

1918 Gold Sovereign (India)
The Bombay mint in India struck sovereigns in just one year, 1918
Rarity
The rarity of a date is not quite in proportion to the mintage figures. Many are thought to have been melted down, some dates being affected more than others.
With any single-date issue such as the 1918-I sovereign, there is demand as a type coin in addition to demand for it as a date. This applies to mintmarks as well as design types, so there is for example more demand for the Bombay India mint sovereigns of 1918 than for any of the other mintmarks of that year.

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.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
cyqb.geo	120610359901	12th Aug 2010	1918 Gold Sovereign (India)	US $400

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of US $400 for this listing.
Whatever the items "sell" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.

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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