eBay User “belladog0_4” Using Stolen Images

belladog0_4 of Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom stole our 2000 Millennium Gold Proof Full Sovereign photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his own. 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 293 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.

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 bar, 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.

Sample Listing

“2000 Gold Proof Sovereign – Millennium Year

This is your chance to acquire the Millennium year 2000 Gold Proof Sovereign.

weight7.98 gms

diameter 22.05

Encapsulated to keep it’s proof lustre, and housed in a luxury black velvet finish case which in turn is boxed in the original outer box with a black lining, with the description stamped in gold on the front .

The Millennium Gold Proof Sovereign also comes with a full colour booklet that is also the Certificate of Authenticity.

Grab yourself a bargain This is a good investment for the future

or you can give it someone for a present

Happy Bidding”

Seller ID:  belladog0_4
Item Number: 160666346400
Date: 26th October, 2011
Description: A 2000 MILLENNIUM GOLD PROOF FULL SOVEREGN

Price: £230.00.

Price
The seller was asking for a starting price of £230.00.

Even 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.

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