epagliuca Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller epagliuca of Braccagni (GR), Italy, not only stole our 1915 Sovereign 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

sterlina d'oro Giorgio V 1915- gold sovereign
STERLINA ORO
GIORGIO 1915
ZECCA DI LONDRA
GOLD FULL SOVEREIGN
GEORGE 1915
Condizione perfette. Per qualsiasi informazione non esitate a contattarmi.

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 1915 gold sovereign, 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 "The photographs provided are of the coin(s) for sale and are the best means of judging 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
epagliuca	270529882368	11th Feb 2010	sterlina d'oro Giorgio V 1915- gold sovereign	€150

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of �95; which is basically pointless.

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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