eBay Copyright Thieves & Crooks Named and Shamed
It's dishonest to copy photographs, and misleading to buyers.
dominika2581 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller dominika2581 of Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom, not only stole 3 of our high quality gold sovereign photographic images, but failed to tell buyers her coins were not the same ones.
She stole our photographs or these coins:
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 32; with 100% positive according to eBay.
It also demonstrates that high eBay feedback is no indicator of honesty.
Sample Listing
1852 Gold Sovereign Victoria Young Head Shield
1852 Gold Sovereign Victoria Young Head Shield
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.
When eBay vendors use photographs of near mint condition coins, this may mislead potential buyers into believing that the coins shown are the vendors own photographs of the actual coins for sale. This may be deliberate in which case it is fraudulent, or it may be though ignorance and stupidity. It may be all these factors, and laziness also.
eBay knows it happens, but take very little action about it.
For some reason, dominika2581 used a very old version of our 1912 George V sovereign. Although the old version is still extant on our websites, we have upgraded this particular photograph, and updated our 1912 sovereigns page with bigger better newer photographs.
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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dominika2581 | 150493568820 | 14th Sep 2010 | 1852 Gold Sovereign Victoria Young Head Shield | �0.99
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dominika2581 | 150493567323 | 14th Sep 2010 | VICTORIA Old Head Gold Sovereign 1893 | �0.99
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dominika2581 | 150493563621 | 14th Sep 2010 | Gold Sovereign - George V 1912 | �0.99
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Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �0.99 for each of 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.
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.
Selling Gold Sovereigns & Other Coins on eBay
We point out that sellers may often get more money, for less effort, by selling to a specialised dealer, such as us, rather than via eBay.
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