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barryetchells in eBay Copyright Theft
barryetchells, of Darwen, United Kingdom, stole our 1973 Manx Gold Five Pounds photograph to use on eBay, in competition with us. Copyright theft is dishonest, and contravenes eBay rules.

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Sample Listing

1973 Isle of Man Five Pounds Gold Coin
1973 Isle Of Man Manx Five Pound Gold Coin
39.9500 grams=1.409 oz
36 millimetres
This is a very nice coin with some serious weight!

Not Only...But Also...
Not content with stealing our pictures, this particular eBay cheat also stole other images from us for another 3 auctions, up to now, and we noticed he also stole another picture from one of our competitors. who we have notified.

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 obverse of a 1973 Manx Gold Five Pounds, he used it to sell his own coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that his coin might not be in the same near mint condition as in our photographs. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
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 £800 for his coin,

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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