silviok8949 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller silviok8949 of Zerbst, Germany, not only stole our 1968 Sovereign Reverse image without permission, but failed to tell buyers they were not photos of his actual coin. This is dishonest and deceptive

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Sample Listing

1 Sovereign Elizabeth II Gold 1968
Hall�chen Ihr bietet hier auf eine Sovereignpr�gung aus England. Abgebildet ist die K�nigin Elizabeth II und auf der R�ckseite ist der Heilige St. Georg auf dem Pferd zu sehen. die M�nze ist echt 0,917 Gold und in einem super Zustand, solltet ihr dennoch Fragen haben dann schickt mir bitte eine mail. " Ansonsten w�nsche ich euch noch viel Spa� beim bieten " ab einem Ersteigerungswrt von 200 � ist der Versand kostenlos

Google Translation

Hi
You are bidding on a Sovereign striking from England.
Shown is the Queen Elizabeth II and is on the back of Holy St. George to see on the horse.
The coin is genuine gold and 0.917 in a super state, you should still have questions please send me a mail.
"Otherwise, I hope you have a lot of fun

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.

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
silviok8949	270593892711	11th Jun 2010	1 Sovereign Elizabeth II Gold 1968	�1

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �1 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.

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