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barry-100 in eBay Copyright Theft
barry-100 of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, stole our Mint Condition 1982 Sovereign Obverse & Reverse Photographs to sell his own 1982 half sovereigns on eBay, without our permission, 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.
It looks like he also copied the descriptive text from our page.
High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty
When we wrote this page, this eBay member's feedback was 287, 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
FIVE REALLY BEAUTIFUL 1982 QE2 HALF SOVEREIGNS BUNC (sic) CON (sic)
Five Really (sic) lovely Queen Elizabeth 11 Half Sovereigns in Bunc | Condition
I have been asked to sell these Half Sovereigns by my Grandmother, they belonged to a small collection belonging to my Grandfather
My Grandfather passed away recently, he bought these new in 1982, he always collected coins and other really old memorabilia
They are in fabulous mint condition and retain their original lustre
They are very clearly defined
They come from a smoke and pet free environment
Post and packaging £6.50 Next Day Special Delivery
signed for and insured for safety
Despatched immediately upon cleared funds
Thanks for looking
Good luck and happy bidding
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Seller ID | Item Number | Date | Description | Price
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barry-100 | 200513975012 | 31st Aug 2010 | FIVE REALLY BEAUTIFUL 1982 QE2 HALF SOVEREIGNS BUNC CON | £0.99
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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.
We do agree that he is talking bunk, and it may be a con!
Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £0.99 for his five coins.
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.
In fact, we noticed his half sovereigns sold for £485, so after eBay sellng fees, he would receive less than £445, even without thinking about PayPal charges, possibly over £20, he would have got less than £90 each for his coins. We would have paid more without any effort or dishonesty on his part.
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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