daveboulton007 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller daveboulton007 of Bristol, United Kingdom, not only stole our 1894 & 1898 Victoria Old Head Uncirculated Sovereign Obverse & Reverse images without permission, but failed to tell buyers his coin was not the same coin. He even told one possible buyer his coins were in even better condition than ours. Cheeky t**t!

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Sample Listing

Full Sovereign Coin 22ct Gold
1898 queen victoria
22ct full sovereign coin
in excellent condition especially as this coin is 112 years old
the coins weight is 7.98 grams
this item will be dispatched on payment clearing
this item will be dispatched to you via royal mail special delivery
i will only post to the uk
many thanks for looking

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 our high quality images of mint condition Victoria Old Head Sovereigns, he or she failed to state that the coin shown in the photographs was not the same coin he was selling, until challenged, then he said his coins were even better.
Are these people delusion, stupid, or both?

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
daveboulton007	330451938082	15th Jul 2010	Full Sovereign Coin 22ct Gold	�0.99
daveboulton007	330451939620	15th Jul 2010	Full Sovereign Coin 22ct Gold	�0.99

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �0.99 for these listings.
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.

Questions & Answers

Dear daveboulton007,
Any reason that you can't use a genuine picture of your coin?

hi, sorry about the picture, i did not have much luck taking the photos. perhaps my camera is not up to the job. i can try to take some more photos. the coin is as good if not better condition than the one in the pictures.
many thanks dave
- daveboulton007

Luck?
We have a lot of luck taking our coin photographs.
The funny thing is that the more we practice the luckier we seem to get.
(Like Gary Player's bunker play).
Also our first camera was not up to the job, that's why we spent over �10,000 on cameras, lenses, lighting, accessories, Adobe Photoshop software, and over 13 years studying photography at University, and getting 4 degrees (between 3 people).
When cheeky p******s like daveboulton007 then tell buyers that his coins are in better condition than the near perfect ones in our photographs, we can find ourselves wanting to stick his camera somewhere dark (and we don't mean a photographic darkroom).
In fact, Dave...
Luck Off!

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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