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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
baldy810 in eBay Copyright Theft
baldy810, of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Cleveland, United Kingdom,stole our 1996 Gold Proof Queen's Birthday Five Pound Crown photograph to use on eBay, and told buyers the image was a "library photograph". Totally dishonest!

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 247; with 100% positive according to eBay.

Sample Listing

QUEEN ELIZABETH 70TH BIRTHDAY £5 COIN
QUEEN ELIZABETH II 70TH BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATIVE £5 COIN
QUITE A RARE COIN
USED BUT IN GOOD CONDITION
REVERSE (sic) HAS QUEENS (sic) PORTRAIT
ROYAL MINTED (sic)
BARGAIN

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 image of the reverse of a 1996 Gold Proof Queen's Birthday Five Pound Crown, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a near mint condition coin was not his own photograph, wrongly stating it to be a "library photograph". We wonder which library he is a member of, or whether he pays any fees or subscripions for his membership.
Most buyers will see the photo of a mint condition coin, and assume that this is the coin on offer, and not read all the description.
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 £9;99 for his coin
This is overpriced for a "tatty" base metal one, which is what we presume he owns, but ridiculously cheap for a perfect gold proof version as shown in our photograph

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.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 232; with 99.1% positive according to eBay, which all goes to show that you cannot rely on the eBay feedback system as any indication of the honesty or integrity of the member.

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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.

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baldy810 eBay Listing Using our 1996 Gold Proof Queen's Birthday Five Pound Crown Photograph
baldy810 eBay Listing Using our 1996 Gold Proof Queen's Birthday Five Pound Crown Photograph

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