marcomaria3610 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller marcomaria3610 of Lucca, LU, Italy, not only stole our 1968 Sovereign Photographs without permission, .

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Sample Listing

Sterlina oro, gold Pound Elizabeth II SOVEREIGN 22ct!
BELLISSIMA moneta del 1968 in finissimo oro 917/1000 mai circolata!! (praticamente perfetta, la foto non rende)
Zecca di LONDRA
Gross Weight: 0.2568 Troy oz. 7.9881gr
Gold Content: 0.2354 Troy oz. 7.3224 gr
Composition: 22-Karat (91.67% Gold)
Diameter: 22.12mm
Per domande o altre foto contattatemi!!
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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 only our high quality images of a 1968 Sovereign, he or she used them to try to sell his own sovereign without saying it was not the same coin. Anyone viewing the photographs would expect it to be the same, near perfect condition coin, "airbrushed" it to make it look like a supermodel.


It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
The vendor is not only cheating us by stealing our copyright images, he is fraudulently or ignorantly misleading and deceiving all potential buyers. Gaining pecuniary advantage by deception is the definition of fraud.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
marcomaria3610	250546297692	20th Dec 2009	Sterlina oro, gold Pound Elizabeth II SOVEREIGN 22ct!	€166

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of €150, which is neither here nor there.
The item "sold" for €166, so even before eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook would have been much better off selling the coin to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
The buyers would be entitled to complain when they discovered the coin they received was not the same as shown in 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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