warie23 Using Copied George V on Obverse of Sovereign and Reverse of 1912 Sydney Mint Sovereign Image on eBay

warie23 from Dublin, Ireland stole our 1912 Gold Sovereigns photograph to use on eBay, without our permission, to try to sell his 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.

This coin actually sold for Euro 160.00, approx £126.35 (2 bids). It appears that not a lot of buyers believed it was genuine. The seller would almost certainly have been much better off selling the coin to us, instead of stealing our photograph.

Sample Listing

8.5 grams 22 carat

Seller ID:
warie23
Item Number:
271628289869
Date:
Due to end 13 October 2014
Description:
Gold sovereign
Price:
The seller was asking for a starting price of EUR 160.00, Approx £125.63

 

The seller is using a photograph of a high quality proof coin in order to sell his own circulated version, this is dishonest and we imagine there will be a disappointed buyer, if this coin sells.

Username:

warie23
 

Place:

Dublin, Ireland

 

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