fred_rabbit Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
eBay seller fred_rabbit of COVENTRY, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, not only stole several of our Sovereign Photographs without permission to sell 6 sovereigns, but failed to state that the photos were not of his actual coins, thereby deceiving all potential buyers.

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Sample Listing

1893 GOLD SOVERIEGN
Hello I have a very old and Nice Soverign (sic) for sale, One of my favourites

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 numerous gold sovereigns, he used them in 6 eBay auctions to try to sell his own sovereigns without saying they were not the same coins. 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 used two different spellings of the word "sovereign" in his listing, and got it wrong both times, doh!
He also used an 1891 obverse photograph, although there is little difference, and in some of his other listings showed a our photograph of a proof sovereign when offering an ordinary non-proof bullion version.
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
fred_rabbit	140370090818	26th Dec 2009	1893 GOLD SOVERIEGN	�147.89
fred_rabbit	140370091624	26th Dec 2009	1902 GOLD SOVERIEGN	�153.89
fred_rabbit	140370092282	26th Dec 2009	1907 GOLD SOVERIEGN	�145.56
fred_rabbit	140370092871	26th Dec 2009	1910 GOLD SOVERIEGN	�160.90
fred_rabbit	140370096077	26th Dec 2009	2007 GOLD BULLION SOVERIEGN	�163
fred_rabbit	140370096463	26th Dec 2009	2007 GOLD BULLION HALF SOVERIEGN	�58

Price
The seller was asking a buy it now price of €239.
10 available.

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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