jmarie-uk of London, United Kingdom is a repeat offender who has stolen our 2009 British Gold 3 Coin Proof Sets photograph and text to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell her own. 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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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
2009 British Gold 3 Coin Proof SetsGold Sovereign SeriesEach year since 1980, the Royal Mint have produced sets of 3 and 4 coins in the gold sovereign series. The 3 coin sets consist of a sovereign, half sovereign and double sovereign or two pound piece.St. George and Dragon – Recut Reverse DiesThe traditional St George & Dragon design has been used on sovereigns, with a few breaks, since 1817. During this long period, there have been a considerable number of minor changes to the dies used for the reverse (tail side). This year, the reverse design appears to have been completely re-engraved, although there was no advance announcement of this from the Royal Mint. Please see our Gold Sovereigns website for a full explanation.Design NewsIn previous years the 3 coin and 4 coin sovereign collections have usually contained all coins of the same design, however in a number of years, the two pound coin included with the sets has been the commemorative version instead. For 2009, there is a change. The three coin sets contain the definitive St. George and dragon design. SpecificationsDenominationDiameterWeightDescriptionTwo Pounds28.4015.98St. George & DragonSovereign (Pound)22.057.98St. George & DragonHalf Sovereign (Fifty Pence)19.303.99St. George & Dragon.
- Seller ID:
- jmarie-uk
- Item Number:
- 121345243858
- Date:
- Date item ended 24 May, 2014
- Description:
- 2009 GOLD PROOF SOVEREIGN THREE-COIN SET
- Price:
The seller was asking for a buy it now price of £699.00 but had changed this to best offer accepted.
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.