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eBay Cheats & Copyright Thieves
sawat587 in eBay Copyright Theft
sawat587, of middlesbrough, Cleveland, United Kingdom,stole our 1895 Victoria Old Head Half Sovereign Obverse 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

HALF SOVEREIGN VICTORIA 1895
hi for sale victoria 1/2 sovereign coin 22ct gold please note this is a library photo but cheak (sic) my feedback as ive (sic) sold quite a few of these
thanks for looking

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 1895 Victoria Old Head Half Sovereign Obverse, 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 £99 for his coin
For at least two of his "feedback" items, he would have got more by selling to us when eBay's new 10% selling fees are taken into account, even ignoring PayPal 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.

Double Stupid or Double Stubborn?
We did report the above listing, which eBay removed. The stupid idiot decided to repeat his listing, still using one of our photographs. It happens more frequently than one would expect, leading us to believe that eBay are negligent in explaining copyright abuse to their members, and to believe that eBay are implicit co-conspirators in this abuse.

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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

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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

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sawat587 eBay Listing Using our 1895 Victoria Old Head Half Sovereign Obverse Photograph
sawat587 eBay Listing Using our 1895 Victoria Old Head Half Sovereign Obverse Photograph

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