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getitfastasp in eBay Copyright Theft
getitfastasp of weston super mare, Somerset, United Kingdom, stole our 1999 Gold Proof Millennium Five Pounds Proof Crown reverse images without permission, but tried to tell buyers his coin was a "silver" version.

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

silver five pound coin 1999 millenium (sic)
five pound coin 1999 millenium

Seller IDItem NumberDateDescriptionPrice
getitfastasp1504522969016th Jun 2010silver five pound coin 1999 millenium£10
getitfastasp1504534745189th Jun 2010silver five pound coin 1999 millenium£10

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 know from experience that many pricate individuals, including most eBay sellers describe anything as silver that is a similar colour without bothering to check their facts. As this vendor fails to mention any box or certificate, we guess that he has a cupro-nickel version, and has alchemised it into silver.

Price
The seller was asking a starting price of £10 for this listing.
Whatever the items "sell" for, after eBay's greedy 10% selling fees, and possible PayPal charges, the crook may have been much better off selling the coins to us, instead of stealing our photographs.
We note his coin failed to sell the first time (not all eBayers are stupid)), and he has relisted it. He may end up paying more in eBay listing fees than the coin is worth.

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.
We should probably delay reporting this item until a buyer has sent some money. This may sound cynical of us, but if enough greedy buyers got conned, they might kick up enough fuss, go to the media, and get eBay the publicity it deserves. It is not our job to act as unpaid policemen for eBay.

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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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getitfastasp eBay Listing Using our 1999 Gold Proof Millennium Five Pounds Proof Crown Reverse Photograph
getitfastasp eBay Listing Using our 1999 Gold Proof Millennium Five Pounds Proof Crown Reverse Photograph

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Reverse of 1999 Gold Proof Millennium Five Pounds Proof Crown Reverse
Reverse of 1999 Gold Proof Millennium Five Pounds Proof Crown Reverse

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