ahorizons123 of Crewe stole our 1888 Sovereign text to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. It is totally dishonest. Text and Image theft is endemic on eBay, and most sellers appear not to care whether their buyers are deceived.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member’s feedback was 232 with 100% Positive Feedback 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.
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. It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar item, and have the intention to totally defraud potential buyers.
Copyright theft is dishonest. We recommend you avoid doing business with dishonest dealers. 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.
Sample Listing
Victoria Jubilee Head
Sovereigns were issued for Queen Victoria in almost every year from 1838 to 1901. There were three main obverse (head) designs, and two reverse designs. The jubilee head was produced from 1887 to 1893 inclusive.
- Seller ID:
- ahorizons123
- Item Number:
- 161299404506
- Description:
- Rare QUEEN VICTORIA 22ct 1888 Gold Full Sovereign
- Price:
- £299.99
This is the seller’s buy it now price.
Although this is a report of the text that this seller has stolen, he also used our image for a time until we reported him on a different image and he removed it. The screen shots of the image used are attached below.
