ecoo3108 in eBay Copyright Theft
ecoo3108 of HUNDON, Suffolk, United Kingdom, stole our 2006 Gold Proof Queen's 80th Birthday Five Pound Crown Obverse & Reverse Photographs without permission, and failed to tell buyers it was not the same coin he was selling.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 76 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

Queens 80th Birthday Collectors £5 Coin (5 pound) 2006
A great collectors coin in fantastic condition:-
Elizabeth II
VIVAT REGINA
80th Birthday
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 80th Birthday in 2006 and to honour her remarkable life, the Royal Mint issued a special commemorative £5 crown which features ceremonial Trumpets with Banners as a salute to Her Majesty The Queen.
Specifications
Denomination: Five Pounds
Diameter: 38.61mm
Weight: 28.28gms
A great one to add to your collection or a stand alone piece.
I accept paypal and shipping is within 24 hours.
Thank you.

Seller ID	Item Number	Date	Description	Price
ecoo3108	170500699884	14th Jun 2010	Queens 80th Birthday Collectors £5 Coin (5 pound) 2006	£34.99

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.
Whether ecoo3108 is misleading them deliberately or in ignorance, we cannot tell, perhaps it is a mixture of both, in which case he is not only lazy, but stupid and dishonest. He has used our photographs of a gold proof version of this coin, perhaps he is colour blind, but failed to mention whether his is gold, silver proof, or just plain old cupro-nickel. It is unlikely that even an eBay buyer will be stupid enough to pay over £35 for what may turn to to be a grotty ordinary circulation version.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £34.99 for this listing.
Whatever the item "sells" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.

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.

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