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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 295 with 100% positive according to eBay.

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

1986/1988/1991/2000 SOVEREIGN PROOF SETS
PLEASE NOTE THE BUY IT NOW PRICE IS FOR 4 SETS OF 3 COIN SOVEREIGN PROOF SETS
3 COIN SET YEAR 1986
3 COIN SET YEAR 1988
3 COIN SET YEAR 1991
3 COIN SET YEAR 2000
ALL PAYMENT METHODS ACCEPTED INC UK CHEQUE OR BANK TRANSFER OR PAYPAL ECHEQUE
100% FEEDBACK EBAYER
BID WITH CONFIDENCE
I havent (sic) loaded all the pics of all the sets but all items are in prisitine (sic) condition

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 2000 Gold Three Coin Sovereign Collection Photograph, he used it to sell his own 4 sets on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the photograph was not his own photograph.
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 £2,999.99.

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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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
• 2000 Gold Three Coin Sovereign Collection Photograph Obverse:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk