A South Wales couple have been ordered to pay back £25,000 made selling pirate Disney films on eBay.

David and Maria Hancock have put their £275,000 house in Newport up for sale after admitting selling more than 1,000 DVDs on the internet auction site.

A judge described the pair as “decent people” who became hooked on internet trading.

Trading standards officers posed as buyers to trace them and found DVDs like Beauty and the Beast and Snow White in a raid.

Their computer revealed that 1,394 DVDs had been sold on eBay and Amazon.
Newport Crown Court heard the pair bought films from Thailand for £7 and sold them on for £12.

Mrs Hancock, 36, made £24,015 and her husband, 32, made £1,134 from selling films.

Posted: 12|20|06 at 10:10 am. Filed under: Auction News.