oldalangordon Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller oldalangordon of Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom, not only stole our 1958 Gold Sovereign images without permission, but failed to tell buyers his coin was not the one shown in our excellent photograph.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 429; with 100% positive according to eBay.
It also demonstrates that high eBay feedback is no indicator of intelligence or reading ability.

Sample Listing

1958 Gold sovereign
1958 GOLD SOVEREIGN IN EXELLENT (sic) CONDITION

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 very high quality images of a 1958 Gold Sovereign, he used them to try to sell his own sovereign as being in "EXELLENT CONDITION". Anyone viewing the photographs would expect this, as the coin we chose was probably the best coin from hundreds, even before we "airbrushed" it to make it look like a supermodel.
They would probably realise he could not spell, and that his keyboard was stuck in Caps Lock, unless he just likes to shout all the time.

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
oldalangordon	190340173204	8th Oct 2009	1958 Gold sovereign	�0.99

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �0.99 for his coin.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coin 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.

Repeat Offender
oldalangordon really ought to know better by now. We have reported him to eBay at least once previously.
Shortly after we posted this page, the stupid thieving bastard (OK, we don't have proof of this last adjective) has very clumsily altered our white background into a black one, presumably thinking that this will disguise the picture, or perhaps even more stupidly thinking that makes it his own!
eBay really should kick dishonest idiots like this off their site for good. (The most likely reason they don't is because they would lose about half of their sellers.
You may wish to see his relisting:

1958 Gold sovereign
oldalangordon's relisted eBay copyright theft example.

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.

Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.