mb*1986 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
mb*1986, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, stole our 1905 Gold Sovereign photograph to use on eBay, in competition with us. Copyright theft is dishonest, and contravenes eBay rules.

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Sample Listing

1905 Full Gold Sovereign coin
You are bidding on a 1905 Full gold Sovereign coin
Edward VII
Excellent condition
No overseas buyers, all buyers must have at least 10 positive feedbacks.
Payment must be made within 2 days of close of sale.
Image is not actual coin
Happy Bidding!!

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 image of the obverse of a 1905 Gold Sovereign, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that his coin might not be in the same near mint condition as in our photographs. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.

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.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £120 for his coin,

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.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
mb*1986	260455204000	29th Jul 2009	1905 Full Gold Sovereign coin	£120

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