jmarie-uk of London, United Kingdom is a repeat offender who has stolen our 1887 Victoria Golden Jubilee Gold Two Pounds photograph and text to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell her own. The seller has stated that her coin is a gold proof coin but has used our photographic images of almost uncirculated coins. It is 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 59 with 96.8% 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
Low reserve price as I am selling my collection ;-(
Send me your best offers as a buy now option!!!
1887 Victoria Golden Jubilee Gold Two Pounds
For Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, a gold two pound coin was issued in sufficient quantities for circulation, as well as proofs included with 11 coin sets.
Two Pounds History.
Only in 1823, 1887, 1893, and 1902 were ordinary circulation types issued in addition to proof versions.
Specifications
Diameter, Millimetres 28.40
Weight, Grams 15.98
Alloy (Carats) 22
Fineness (Millesimal) 916.6
Actual Gold Content (Grams) 14.63
Actual Gold Content (Troy Ounces) 0.4707
On 13-Jul-14 at 21:45:21 BST, seller added the following information:
2 more photo’s added as the 2 I took before we’re not very good, as you can see the coin is in a capsule. The 2 new photo’s were taken using a professional camera!!! As you can see the details on the coin much better. Happy Bidding 🙂
- Seller ID:
- jmarie-uk
- Item Number:
- 121384449589
- Date:
- This item is due to end today, 15 Jul, 2014
- Description:
- 1887 Victoria Golden Jubilee Proof Gold Two Pounds Coin
- Price:
The seller was asking for a starting price of £120.00
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.
