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eBay Copyright Thieves
Many eBay vendors use our coin photographs to sell inferior quality coins on eBay. These eBay members are dishonest and should be avoided.
We believe eBay profits from IP rights infringements (copyright theft), and does so knowingly, only removing infringing items reluctantly, if at all.

Sample Listing

2010 Kangaroo @ Sunset $25 Gold Proof Coin, Rare.
2010 $25 Gold proof coin "Kangaroo at sunset" Up for auction is the latest Gold proof $25 coin "Kangaroo at sunset" arguably the most collectable coin series in the world.
This coin "# 625/1000 "could only be obtained through a mail ballot system, drawn on the 16-11-09. And with such a small mintage and this series becoming even more popular overseas, i wouldn't be suprised to see this coin reach $3000 + within a few weeks.
Extract from RAM webpage. (A record number of ballots were received at the Royal Australian Mint for the 2010 $25 Gold Proof Kangaroo at Sunset Coin.)
MINTAGE 1000
DENOMINATION $25
Metal Gold Proof 99.99%
Diameter 21.69mm
Any payment made by direct deposit will recieve a $15 discount. Postage includes insurance
Thankyou few viewing and good luck bidding.

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 images of a 2010 Australian Gold Fifth Ounce Kangaroo at Sunset Photograph, he used it to sell his own card on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin card was not his own photograph, or that his card may not have been in mint condition.
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.
He has got the technical ability to use a photo editing software package to remove the coin form our own images, but seems incapable or reluctant to create his own original scan or photograph.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £10.

How Much - What a Rip Off! We offer new and as new Mint display cards for sovereigns, half sovereigns, and other coins. Our asking price is only £1 each. It seems that not only are eBay sellers, including goatherder16, lazy and dishonest, they are also greedy.

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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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
• 2010 Australian Gold Fifth Ounce Kangaroo at Sunset Photograph Obverse:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk