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When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 167; with 99.2% 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

Rare Tercentenary of the Bank of England £2 Coin 1994
VERY RARE
TERCENTENARY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
TWO POUND COIN
YEAR OF ISSUE 1994
THIS IS A THICK SINGLE METAL TYPE COIN
EDGING SAYS: SIC VOS NON VOBIS (thus you labour but not for yourself)
COIN DESIGN SHOWS THE BANKS CORPORATE SEAL INCLUDING THE CROWN AND CYPHER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY AND DATES 1694- 1994
DESIGNED BY LESLIE DURBIN
WILL POST TO THE UK ONLY
THE COIN IS IN USED CONDITION AND IT HAS SOME LIGHT SCRATCHES AND A SMALL RUST MARK THE PHOTO IS A REPRESENTATION ONLY
THANKS FOR LOOKING
HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS

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 1994 Gold Proof Two Pounds, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a near mint condition coin 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.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £2.He would probably get more by spendng it 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
• 1994 Gold Proof Two Pounds Obverse:
  goldsovereigns.co.uk
• 18 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.18carat.co.uk
• 9 Carat Gold Jewellery:
  www.9carat.co.uk