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stanley19621962 5 eBay Listings Using 10 of our Images in 5 eBay Auctions
stanley19621962 5 eBay Listings Using 10 of our Images in 5 eBay Auctions
You Can Tell Which 3 Are Not Ours!
stanley19621962 in eBay Copyright Theft
stanley19621962 of Helens Bay, Down, United Kingdom, stole our 2008 Beijing 2012 London Olympic handover £2 Coin 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

2008 Beijing 2012 London - Olympic handover £2 coin
Launched on 26th August 2008, this £2 coin celebrates the handover of the Olympic Games from Beijing 2008 to London 2012.
The design on the reverse is of the Olympic Flag, with a hand handing it over to another hand, and the London 2012 logo. The words "BEIJING 2008" and "LONDON 2012" surround the design along the outer ring.
The design on the obverse is the fourth portrait of Queen Elizabeth 2nd, and is undated completley (sic).
Around the edge of the coin reads: "I CALL UPON THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD."
This really is an amazing collectors coin, worth £60.00 at http://www.royalmint.com
*ONLY 3,000 IN CIRCULATION!*
Please ask me any questions :)
Thanks for looking.
* I do not do refunds so please message me with any questions.
*Please pay within three days of auction ending.

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 2008 Beijing 2012 London Olympic handover £2 Coin, 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 £20 for the coin. This would be very cheap for the silver proof version, but an ordinary worn circulated version is really only worth £2. 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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