Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This Dealer? Using other people's copyright images is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer to sell the same goods in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics. We would not recommend anybody to transact business with this person or company.

Domain Lookup

Domain name:
anniversarycoins.co.uk
Registrant:
Gareth Finney
Registrant type:
Unknown
Registrant's address:
43 Brook Street
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 7AD
United Kingdom
Registrar:
Namesco Limited t/a Namesco Ltd [Tag = NAMESCO]
URL: http://www.names.co.uk
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 21-Jun-2009
Renewal date: 21-Jun-2011
Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.
Name servers:
ns0.phase8.net
ns1.phase8.net
ns2.phase8.net

What's Wrong?
It is dishonest and unethical to pirate and steal other people's work by using high quality copyright photographs without the owner's consent. To do so in competition with them is doubly devious. We can partially understand why they do it; it is quick and easy (but then so is robbing people).
Gareth Finney's Anniversary Coins logo has been created from a copy of our 1933 penny photograph.
He has also used our 1958 sovereign reverse photograph.
In this case Gareth Finney could not be bothered to take the time and trouble of photographing a coin for himself, or paying a professional photographer to do it for him, so decided it was quicker and easier to steal ours instead. He probably also thought we would not notice.
For these reasons, we conclude that Gareth Finney is dishonest and unethical, and we recommend anybody to avoid doing business with them. If they will cheat us by stealing our photographs, what would they do to you for your coins, your precious metal or your money?
Our sovereign image was used on the home page of his website, while our 1933 penny image was used as his logo on numerous pages of his site including the home or index page, coin sets page, contact us page, and customer comments page.

eBay Member ID brianfinney001
Although we have no evidence of Gareth / Brian Finney using our photographs in his individual eBay listings, he has used his log, based on our 1933 penny reverse photograph, on his Anniversary Coins Shop page, and his "About Me / About the Seller" page.

Two Addresses? - Two Names The address given for Anniversary Coins Maintained by: brianfinney001, on his About the Seller page is different from that given in the domain registration:

Contact us by Post -
Mow View, 3 Hillfields Close,
Congleton, Cheshire. CW12 1NW
or direct by Phone -
0770 993 9533

Copyright Notice Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

Copyright Infringements Remedies Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.

Other Copyright Abuse

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Copyright Thieves on eBay We already have a page naming and shaming dealers using our images without permission. It's time we did the same for eBay, although if we include them all, this could be a very long page.

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Other Web Sites All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

• Chards
  www.chards.co.uk
• Investment Gold Bars & Coins (This Site)
  taxfreegold.co.uk
• General Coins & Jewellery:
  www.24carat.co.uk
• Gold Sovereigns:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk