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Allgold of Sevenoaks (Clive King) & Copyright Theft
Allgold of Sevenoaks (allgoldcoins.co.uk) of Sevenoaks, Kent is yet another dealer who has used our copyright images without permission.

Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This Dealer?
Using other people's copyright images is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer to sell the same goods in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics.

Allgold of Sevenoaks Website
We have noticed Allgold Coins using our photographs to use on eBay at least twice in the past.
In October 2009, we also noticed another of our images being used on Allgold's website. It's actually one of our older, and less good, images, which dates back to November 2004. since then, we have re-photographed most of the coins on our websites and replaced them with bigger, better images.
We see from Nominet that the domain name allgoldcoins.co.uk was first registered on 8th September 2003, apparently to a UK individual called "ALLGOLD OF SEVENOAKS", which strikes us as a very unusual name for a person.
In fact according to the nominet lookup page:-

Domain name: allgoldcoins.co.uk
Registrant: ALLGOLD OF SEVENOAKS
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Relevant dates: Registered on: 08-Sep-2003 Renewal date: 08-Sep-2011 Last updated: 03-Oct-2009
Registration status: Registered until renewal date.

Gold Coin Bullion Dealers Jewellers & Misleading Domain Registration
We usually notice inaccurate wrong information in domain name registrant details when checking people for copyright IP (Intellectual Property) rights abuses.

Unusual?
We looked at Allgold's website to see what they would reveal about themselves:

According to Allgold's "About Us" Page:-

Allgold, PO BOX 260, Wallington, Surrey, SM5 4AH
Tel: 0844 544 7952

Quality Coins
Based in Wallington, Surrey, we supply the very highest quality coins available. We are market leaders in the supply of Rare and Scarce sovereigns from 1817 - 2004, including all modern proof sets along with two and five pound coins.
Service of Excellence
Our aim is not only to supply coins but the very highest standards in customer service available. We will do all we can to make sure that all customers are totally satisfied with there (sic) purchase. Unlike some other dealers we will always answer your Emails within hours as every customer and every question to us is very important to us. We do not collect negative feedback as an occupational hazard we aim for 100% satisfaction all the time not just some of the time. Please read our eBay feedback for our customer’s (sic) .
Free Services
We give free advice on any coin related question, so if you want to know about anything from Mintmarks to Overstrikes drop us an Email we will be only to happy to help.
Free Valuation Service
If you want a valuation then just send us a good quality scan, and we will give you an honest appraisal.
We Buy Gold Coins! Any quality and any quantity anytime at the best prices available.
Contact Allgold by email or check out our Sell Your Coins Page
Site design by Cyber Visions
Site content © Allgold Of Sevenoaks 2005

Who would have thought such an honest (although they do not claim this) reputable company would resort to using images from their competitors?
Surprisingly, their website does not appear to have an "About Us" page, although it does have their name and address on their "Contact Us" page.
We quote below a few extracts from the so - called Modern English Gold Coins page of their website:

Sevenoaks or Wallington? Kent or Surrey?
The more we look, the curiouser it gets. Why does this individual or company call itself Allgold of Sevenoaks (which is in Kent), when it is based in Wallington, Surrey, 24 miles and almost an hour away by road?
Perhaps because it sounds better? We must admit we don't know, and your guess is likely to be just as good as ours.

What's Wrong?
It is dishonest and unethical to pirate and steal other people's work by using high quality copyright photographs without the owner's consent. To do so in competition with them is doubly devious. We can partially understand why they do it; it is quick and easy (but then so is robbing people).
In this case Allgold of Sevenoaks and its owners could not be bothered to take the time and trouble of photographing a number of different coins themselves, or paying a professional photographer to do it for them, so they decided it was quicker and easier to use ours instead. If you compare our (small) photograph with others on their website, you can easily see why they used ours! They probably also thought we would not notice.
If they will cheat us by using our photographs, what would they do to you for your gold coins or your money?
We also note that Allgold of Sevenoaks include a copyright notice on the pages of their website, thus laying claim to ownership of our photograph they have used.

Yell
Another strange anomaly; when we tried to find a bricks and mortar address for Allgold, we came across their entry on Yell.com

Allgold of Sevenoaks Coin & Medal Dealers
Tel: 0844 5447952| P.O Box 50, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6WE
Streetmap.co.uk- search results for TN146WE
This is a post code for a Post Office Box"

Service of Documents
One particular reason we had for seeking a real address for "Allgold of Sevenoaks" was to serve legal documents on them. We have already served them with a formal notice on 12th November 2009, addressed to their P.O. Box, and received an acknowledgement dated 15th November, but as they have failed to comply with our requests within 7 days, we have now passed the file to our solicitors with instructions to sue them for copyright infringement.

Checksure
A Checksure search for Clive King returned:

CLIVE ANTHONY KING
Address: TN14 6HB
D.O.B.: 1964
General Details
Number 17298760
Title
First Name(s) CLIVE ANTHONY
Last Name KING
Year Of Birth 1964
Address KENT

No of current directorships & company secretarials held: 0
As this postcode is close to one of those listed for Allgold, we guess this might be the same person.
A search for "TN14 6HB" returns addresses in Sundridge Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, including Morants Court, Morants Court Farm, a boarding kennels, and a skip hire company. Some of these operate from Morants Court Farm by F. Tipple & Sons Ltd.
It also shows one boarding kennel as being at "Sundridge Road, Chevening, SEVENOAKS, Kent, TN14 6HB

Postcode Lookup SM5 4AH
This is shown as being Carshalton, Surrey.
Carshalton Aerials are shown at 40 High St, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4AH

Allgold Coins eBay Copyright Abuse
Allgold Coins in eBay copyright theft.

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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.

Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites

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Other Web Sites
All comments about copyright also cover content of all our other websites including, but not limited to:-

Allgold of Sevenoaks's 'Modern English Gold Coins' Page
Allgold of Sevenoaks' "Modern English Gold Coins" Page

Other Copyright Abuse

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