sega_salesman Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller sega_salesman of Hexham, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, not only stole our Uncirculated 1979 Sovereign Obverse & Reverse images without permission, but failed to tell buyers his coin was not the same coin.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 1949; with 100% positive according to eBay.
It also demonstrates that high eBay feedback is no indicator of honesty.

Sample Listing

1979 GOLD Full Sovereign 22ct Uncirculated and Cased
1979 GOLD Full Sovereign 22ct Uncirculated and Cased
Royal Mint Bullion Coin
Welcome to my auction for this fantastic 1979 Full Gold Sovereign. It is in immaculate considion (sic) and weighs 7.98 grams (correct weight). It is capsuled for protection. Item will be sent first class and fully insured.
Weight: 7.9881 grams
Thickness: 1.52 mm
Diameter: 22.05 mm
Fineness: 22 carat = 91.67%
Actual Gold Content: 7.3224 grams = 0.2354
I am a seller with over 1900 sales and a 100% positive feedback. Bid with confidence, You may wish to check for other coins I am selling.
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.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
sega_salesman	330471930789	12th Sep 2010	1979 GOLD Full Sovereign 22ct Uncirculated and Cased	�0.99
sega_salesman	330471878309	12th Sep 2010	1991 Deluxe Royal Mail Proof Set - Perfect Condition	�0.99
sega_salesman	330471882333	12th Sep 2010	1974 Royal Mail Proof Set - Superb Example !	�0.99
sega_salesman	330471872817	12th Sep 2010	1995 Royal Mail Proof Set including �5 Coin	�0.99
sega_salesman	330471895570	12th Sep 2010	1970e Royal Mail PROOF Shilling - Superb Example !	�0.99

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �0.99 for this listing.
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.

Reminders
We sent eBay a NOCI on 14th September 2010 at 13.23 UK time.
As at 19.45 on 15th September 2010, the listing had still not been removed, and we sent our first reminder to eBay.

Auctiva & Copyright Abuse
When eBay sellers use Auctiva.com to host their eBay photographs and steal them from us, the pirated images often appear on all or many of their other eBay listings.
Often, these Auctiva Gallery Images persist even after the actual directly infringing item is removed by eBay, thus compounding the problem. We have told Auctiva, who do not appear to care.
When we looked all, all 12 of sega_salesman's eBay listings featured our high quality 1979 sovereign reverse photograph in their Auctiva Gallery section.

1991 Deluxe Royal 'Mail' Proof Set
We noticed the idiot appears to think that the Royal Mail make and issue British proof coin sets, rather than the Royal Mint.
In the screenshot of sega_salesman's "1991 Deluxe Royal Mail Proof Set - Perfect Condition" auction listing, our 1979 sovereign image can be seen clearly in the Auctiva Gallery section.

Selling Gold Sovereigns & Other Coins on eBay
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Copyright Notice
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