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2010mighty1234 in eBay Copyright Theft
2010mighty1234 of edinburgh, Edinburgh (City of), United Kingdom stole our 2003 Half Sovereign Gold Proof Coin Photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try sell his own Coins, and failed to mention the Coin in the photograph was not one of the Coins he owned, if any. Totally dishonest.
Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 6, 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

2003 half gold sovereign 50th anniversary coin
this is a2003 half gold sovereign,minted for the anniversay of the coronation year made of 22ct gold
the coin is certified and is protected by a clear plastic capsule which fits into a special 50th anniversary coronation year 1953 to 2003 presentation case
22ct gold
weight 3.99grms

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
2010mighty123412065831091510th Dec 20102003 half gold sovereign 50th anniversary coin£0.99

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic Coin and gold 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.
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. This seller has stolen our 2003 Proof Half Sovereign Photograph yet the photograph that shows the actual coin he has is in fact a Uncirculated Half Sovereign not a Proof Half Sovereign. He may be trying to decieve the bidders on purpose and some bidders may presume that he is selling the Proof version.

Price
The seller was asking for a Buy It Now price of £0.99.
Even without after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the seller would almost certainly 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.

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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.

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2010mighty1234's eBay Listing Using our 2003 Half Sovereign  Gold Proof Coin Photograph
2010mighty1234's eBay Listing Using our 2003 Half Sovereign Gold Proof Coin Photograph

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Our 2003 Half Sovereign  Gold Proof Coin Photograph
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