piatto321 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller piatto321 of East Kilbride, Glasgow (City of), United Kingdom, not only stole our 1968 Uncirculated Sovereign Reverse Photographs without permission to sell his sovereigns, but stated that the photos were of his actual coins, thereby deceiving all potential buyers.

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Sample Listing

1968 Queen Elizabeth 22ct Gold Sovereign
22ct Gold Sovereign Coin, In Great Condition.
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 high quality images of both sides of a 1968 Uncirculated Sovereign Reverse, he used them in his eBay auctions to try to sell his own sovereign without saying it was not the same coin. Anyone viewing the photographs would expect them to be the same, near perfect condition coin, "airbrushed" to make them look like supermodels.
In addition, this stupid ignorant crook stated "this item is in great condition".

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
piatto321	280471087346	26th Feb 2010	1962 Full Sovereign 22 ct Gold coin Queen Elizabeth	£150
piatto321	280477223252	3rd Mar 2010	1968 Queen Elizabeth 22ct Gold Sovereign	£250
piatto321	280473118563	16th Mar 2010	1968 Queen Elizabeth 22ct Gold Sovereign	£190 / £250
piatto321	280480001085	17th Mar 2010	1968 Queen Elizabeth 22ct Gold Sovereign	£190 / £250

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �190, with a BIN (Buy It Now) price of �250..

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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