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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

1979 SOLID 22 KARAT GOLD PROOF HALF SOVEREIGN MINT COIN
This is a 1979 solid gold proof or uncirculated sovereign - not sure which. (I have 4 available) Excellent condition!!
It has a special finish and is ideal for the collector or person who would keep it as a memento or family heirloom.
FREE SHIPPING LIKE ALL MY ITEMS.

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 1979 Mint Condition Gold Sovereign, she used it to sell her own coin on eBay. She did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was not her own photograph.
It's possible she is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
He or she titled it as a proof coin, used our photo of an uncirculated (non-proof) coin, but stated in the description they were not sure which is was, also adding that it had a special finish.
Does this person know or not know? In any case, our website, from where they stole our photos has a idiot-proof guide to telling the difference!

Imaginary Coins?
If this particularly stupid eBay member had bothered to read the 1979 Half Sovereigns Don't Exist page of our TaxFreeGold website, they could have discovered that what they did own (if in fact they do own any coins) were sovereigns not half sovereigns. Perhaps emkathens is simply too lazy too read the page, rather than stupid.
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, she 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 $330If it had sold for a sensible price, she would probably get more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal fees.

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
• 1979 Mint Condition Gold Sovereign Obverse:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk