austenantiques Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller austenantiques of Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom, not only stole our 1912 sovereign reverse image without permission, but tried to tell buyers his coin was in top condition.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 27; with 100% positive according to eBay.
It also demonstrates that high eBay feedback is no indicator of honesty.

Sample Listing

Gold Sovereigns WOW
The 'GOLD SOVEREIGNS Information'
booklet For sale!!
How to sell YOUR Sovereigns and get top Dollar !!
The information NORMAL Gold Dealers dont (sic) want you to have !!
1. Some dealers will offer you scrap value for your coins!
2. There are Sovereign Exchange companies that will offer you up to 40% more for your coins if you know where to go
3. Many Gold dealers buy at rock bottom prices on auction sites etc, Beware!! get the best price for your coins, why sell at rock bottom prices when you can get much much more !
How to get MORE CASH for your GOLD SOVEREIGNS !!!
Get what they are really worth NOT what Gold Dealers want to pay you.
GET UP TO 40% More for your COINS !!!!!
You can also email us - [email protected]
This is NOT an electronic booklet

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 (old) high quality images of a 1912 sovereign, on his linked website Sovereign Exchange Replica Docs (sovereignexchange.co.uk), of which we also show a screenshot.
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
austenantiques	120579669118	6th Jun 2010	Gold Sovereigns WOW	�0.01

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �0.01 for this listing.
This is probably more than it is worth.

Austen Antiques alias Sovereign Exchange
We noted a similar, if not identical listing in the eBay ID name of sovereignexchange, for some reason, possibly suspected fraud, this listing appears to have been removed. Sovereignexchange's feedback was 1.

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.

Selling Gold Sovereigns & Other Coins on eBay
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