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leefrere1970 in eBay Copyright Theft
leefrere1970 , of sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom, stole our Mint Condition 1915 Half Sovereign photographs to use on eBay, and failed to tell buyers the image was not of the same coin or coins he was selling, that the coin was a restrike. Totally dishonest!
In fact, he was offering a 1915 half sovereign.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 142 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 Half Sovereign 1915 Excellent Condition
This coin is a gold half sovereign in excellent condition. It belonged to my grandmother and has been kept in a small coin purse for well over 40 years - hence the good condition! I am also selling a gold sovereign 1891

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
leefrere197020040716882517th Nov 2009Gold Half Sovereign 1915 Excellent Condition£50
leefrere197020040716618417th Nov 20091891 Gold Soveriegn Excellent Condition£125

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 Mint Condition 1915 Half Sovereign, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not mention to potential buyers that the high quality photographs of a mint condition coin was not his own photograph, or that his coin may not have been in mint condition.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.
He stole the obverse images from a different website.
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 £50
He would probably get more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal fees.
It "sold" for £83.23 which was only about intrinsic gold value, he will receive less than £75 after eBay selling 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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leefrere1970  eBay Listing Using our Mint Condition 1915 Half Sovereign Photographs
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