stoner1892 Using Copied 1884 Young Head Sovereign Image on eBay

stoner1892 from Southampton stole our 1884 Young Head Sovereign 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.

High eBay Feedback is No Guarantee of Integrity or Honesty

When we wrote this page, this eBay member’s feedback was 374 with 100% 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.

This seller advertised the item as a half soveriegn using a photograph of our full sovereign. He also answered ebay questions stating that the “pictures have been taken from the internet as I do not have a camera which takes a decent photo…” It would have been nice to receive some credit for this as he used our high quality photograph.

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

 

THIS IS A GENUINE SALE.

I inherited this half sovereign from my late father who was in his 90’s he in turn was given it by his father. I am also selling a William IV whole sovereign

MORE INFORMATION AS ASKED FOR: THIS COIN HAS BEEN AUTHENTICATED BY A COIN COLLECTOR. IT IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
IT IS NOW ADVERTISED ELSEWHERE SO AUCTION COULD END EARLY.

Seller ID:
stoner1892
Item Number:
141433779617
Date:
16 Oct, 2014
Description:
1884 young head victoria sovereign
Price:
£155.00

At the time of publishing the item was at £155.00 and twelve bids had been placed.

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. In the title he has stated it is a sovereign yet in the description he details it as a half sovereign. This can be misleading to customers.

Username:

stoner1892
 

Place:

Southampton
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