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bitsandbobs2369 5 eBay Listings Using 10 of our Images in 5 eBay Auctions
bitsandbobs2369 5 eBay Listings Using 10 of our Images in 5 eBay Auctions
You Can Tell Which 3 Are Not Ours!
bitsandbobs2369 in eBay Copyright Theft
bitsandbobs2369 of "dalton in furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom", stole our 2006 silver proof fifty pence photograph to use on eBay, and omitted to tell buyers that the image was not of the coin he was selling. Totally dishonest!

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Sample Listing

50p Victoria Cross.
for sale is a 50p
150th anniversary of
the Victoria Cross.
dated 2006 in great condition
thank you for looking
and happy bidding

What's Wrong?
We invest a great deal of time, effort, and cost into creating some of the best photographic coin 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.
This particular eBay seller not only stole one of images of a 2006 silver proof fifty pence, he used it to sell his coin on eBay. He did not seem to think it was worth mentioning to potential buyers that the high quality photograph of a mint condition coin was not his own photograph, and not the same coin as he was offering for sale. This is almost certainly illegal in the UK under the Trade Description Act, although it appears to happen on a daily basis on eBay.
It's possible he is ignorant of such fine points, or just plain ignorant.

It is always possible, even likely, that sellers who steal photographs do not own a similar coin, 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.

Price
The seller is asking a starting price of £0.90 for the coin. This would be very cheap for the silver proof version, but an ordinary worn circulated version is really only worth 50p. This is pretty stupid of him, eBay will charge listing fees, selling fees, possibly plus PayPal fees. He is likely to get complaints, and the coin returned, if eBay buyers have any brains, so will have wasted time money and postage both ways, for himself an others.

eBay Guilty of Negligence or Complicity
We will be reporting this example of copyright abuse using our standard Statutory Declaration via the eBay VeRO programme, and wait to see if they chose to action or ignore our report. We look forward to taking legal action against eBay for their negligence and / or complicity if they fail to take down the offending material promptly.

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