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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves

austenantiques in eBay Copyright Theft
austenantiques of Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom, stole our 1912 George V Sovereign Obverse Photograph on their website & ran eBay dodgy auctions linking to it. Totally dishonest.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 27 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

Gold Sovereigns WOW
The 'GOLD SOVEREIGNS' booklet
'How to sell YOUR Sovereigns & get SO MUCH MORE CASH!!'
Author :sovereignexchange.co.uk
The information NORMAL Gold Dealers dont want you to have !!
Did you know there are Sovereign Exchange companies that will offer upto (sic) 40% more for coins
Many Gold dealers buy at rock bottom prices, Beware!! Get the best price for your coins with the information contained in this booklet, why sell at rock bottom prices when you can get much much more !
How to get SO MUCH MORE CASH for your GOLD SOVEREIGNS !!!
Get what they are really worth NOT what some
Gold Dealers want to pay you.
You can also email us for a quicker response or message us - exchange@sovereignexchange.co.uk
This is NOT an electronic booklet

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
austenantiques1205795428866th Jun 2010Gold Sovereigns WOW£0.01

Sovereign Exchange Replica Docs (sovereignexchange.co.uk)
There are numerous things wrong with the "Sovereign Exchange" website, which we have detailed on a separate page.

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin and gold bar 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.
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.
Anybody buying this coin would to entitled to believe that the rare proof coin shown in the photographs was the actual coin being offered for sale.
Although "austenantiques" has not (yet) used our photographs on eBay, it has used them on its rather nasty looking website, and has used eBay as a cheap advertising medium to direct eBay members to the "Sovereign Exchange" website. For this reason, we have included them in our eBay copyright thieves section.
The title of their listings clearly states "Gold Sovereigns WOW", indicating that the item for sale is a quantity of gold sovereigns, at a starting price of one penny. This is deceptive, and any intelligent eBayer (is this an oxymoron?), would be right to feel annoyed at having their time wasted by a deliberately misleading title. The listing itself does state that the auction is only for a booklet, but by the time any potential buyer sees the listing they have already been fooled once. Their are, believe it or not, some eBay buyers who are so stupid that they will expect to "Win" a gold coin, because they were too lazy or stupid to read the description.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.01 for this listing.
This is clearly simply a way to advertise cheaply on eBay. whether the booklet actually exists, or is worth the paper it is printed on, we do not know.

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.
We should probably delay reporting this item until a buyer has sent some money. This may sound cynical of us, but if enough greedy buyers got conned, they might kick up enough fuss, go to the media, and get eBay the publicity it deserves. It is not our job to act as unpaid policemen for eBay.

Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.

Copyright Infringements Remedies
Our suggested draft remedies for copyright abusers dependent on category - competitors, bloggers, pseudo-expert & advice sites acting as eBay & Google portals, eBay & other auction site sellers.

Other Copyright Abuse

Other Copyright Abuse

Buying Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

Selling Gold Coins & Bars on eBay

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.

Alphabetical Listing of Other Copyright Theft Sites

Other Scams

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

austenantiques eBay Listing Using our 1902 Edward VII Matt Proof Sovereign Obverse & Reverse Photographs Photograph
austenantiques eBay Listing Using our 1902 Edward VII Matt Proof Sovereign Obverse & Reverse Photographs Photograph

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