specialthingsoftn25te of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom, stole our 1887 Victoria Jubilee Head Shield half 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.
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When we wrote this page, this eBay member’s feedback was 972 with 99.1% 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. In this instance the seller has used many images. 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:
THIS LISTING IS FOR A1887 Victoria Jubilee Head Shield Gold Half Sovereign
THE COIN WEIGHS 4G
THIS ITEM WILL BE POSTED WITH FREE POSTAGE (NEXT DAY DELIVERY)
THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE FROM MY SHOP AND THIS LISTING COULD BE ENDED AT ANYTIME
please not these photo’s are not of the actual coin as my camera is not working at the moment but the coin is in a very good condition the coin has a small scratch on the front but is very clean
Seller ID: specialthingsoftn25te
Item Number: 271108214833
Date: 21st November, 2012
Description: 1887 Victoria Jubilee Head Shield Gold Half Sovereign
Price: £160.00.
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of £160.00.
Even before 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.
