deekerbo1, of "blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom", stole our 2007 Gold Sovereign photograph to use on eBay, in competition with us. Copyright theft is dishonest, and contravenes eBay rules.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 117; with 100% positive according to eBay.
Sample Listing
2007 Full Gold Sovereign BUNC
Full Gold Sovereign in immaculate uncirculated condition.
2007 brilliant finish with Queen Elizabeth II latest portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley
22 Carat gold coin of 8 grammes gold weight and diameter 22.05 mm
Excellent investor coin - or simply worth it's weight in gold.
Thank you for looking. Happy Bidding & good luck.
Paypal preferred. Despatch first business day following payment.
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 image of the obverse of a 2007 Gold Sovereign, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that his coin might not be in the same near mint condition as in our photographs. 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 was asking a starting price of £0.99 for his coin, and it "sold" for £67,
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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deekerbo1 Using Our Mint Condition 2007 Gold Sovereign Image in eBay Auctions
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