nigelday1965 Using Copied Sovereign Images on eBay
nigelday1965 of LIPHOOK, Hampshire, United Kingdom, stole 1980 Gold Proof Sovereign photographs to use on eBay, and omitted to tell buyers that the images were not of the coins he was selling. Totally dishonest

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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 590; with 100% positive according to eBay.

Sample Listing

2000 Full Gold Sovereign
Gold Sovereign
Year 2000
As new, has been a protective pounch (sic) until last week when a guy weighed the coin to value it.
Free postage and packing by Royal Mail Special Delivery

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 ten of images of various gold sovereigns, he used them in five different listings for five individual sovereigns. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of near mint condition coins were not his own photographs, and not the same coins as he was offering for sale. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.

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.

Price
The seller is asking a starting price of �140 for his coin.
Whatever it sold for, after eBay selling fees of 10%, he may have got more by selling it direct to us.

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.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
nigelday1965	150372414567	12th Sep 2009	2000 Full Gold Sovereign	�140

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