Here here. Treacherous waters indeed. As you say, though, because it
is as you say, Rich, there are very good buys to be had for the
authentic goods that are listed. I do fear for the uninitiated, though.
Holiday
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From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
Date: December 26, 2009 2:18:51 PM EST
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] QUESTION: IS THIS AN ORIGINAL DR. NO US 1-SHEET?
Reply-To: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
fleaBay is toast
do you folks realize what a shadow of it's former self that site is
today??
in posters>original>us: fleaBay has about 5000 posters listed daily.
if you remove the posters that are not true auctions because they
are priced at retail or higher (making them set sale items) you may
have 1000 auctions. Bruce sells more vintage posters each week than
fleaBay has listed as real auctions and surely, only a portion of
the fleaBay listings sell.
I sell about 300 posters a week through my true auctions and
Heritage sells about 400. Those 700 posters (combined) may be more
posters than are sold via fleaBay auctions each week..
fleaBay has Universal horror forgeries and Pulp Fiction bootlegs.
Star Wars bootlegs, minty whites, hairy belts and hairy backs. There
are Portal reprints being sold as originals by people who know
better which begs the question: why hasn't anyone listed some of the
repros from MovieGoods and others as real posters yet?
You have fake props, fake art prints, fake Gucci bags, fake perfumes
and colognes, fake designer clothing.
Bruce got $580 for a Pulp Fiction regular a few weeks back.. How
much would all PF posters be worth if not for the bootlegs??
our own Alan Adler has a CFTBL one sheet listed (on linen) for $8500
and there are no takers!!
These issues are in every category. S2 Art was complaining they
constantly contact fleaBay about their art print reproductionss
being sold as original prints (it's a real surprise we took so long
to figure that out) and in comic art there is constantly some fake
being offered or something being sold as original when it is not. A
phony Frazetta sketch was being sold that we believe is traced back
to Frazetta Jr (who is now being charged with b&e into the family
museum & attempting to steal 90 paintings)
they have fake props (items bought at used stores, and marked as
Western Clothing etc)
fake antique furniture (commercial reproductions sold as originals)
fake dvd's from China
fleaBay has known it is a clearing house for thieves for a very long
time and without the lawsuits that have been filed by France,
Sweden, Italy and other countries (yes, countries and not people)
can you imagine how many phony Gucci bags would be for sale??
The buyers have been leaving fleaBay for years and will continue to
do so until even sellers like Sean, Dave and Marty who run real
auctions, eventually leave as well due to falling sales figures and
eventually the site will be sold to Google or Microshaft to
integrate with their own systems. But each day it becomes more
useless in general.
recently I bought many unsold window cards that were listed on
fleaBay to flesh out my great wc auction of 2 weeks back.. I sold
every one and made money on every one. But the other dealers
couldn't sell them at lower prices than I got on fleaBay, which is
proof all by itself how useless the site has become.
of course.... I am definitely not complaining
: - )
ps.. I said fleaBay 11 times in this post
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
At 07:04 AM 12/26/2009, Claude Litton wrote:
This is one of the two major problems with ebay and ebay is too
stupid to recognize what this has done to the collectibles market.
By making it virtually impossible to contact other people, they
prevent righteous persons from warning others of fraud or
mistakes. It also does not allow us to uncover shill bidding by
sellers. These have definitely put a serious dent into the poster
market and no doubt, into other antique items. Ebay is too
preoccupied with making money and "protecting" itself against off-
ebay transactions. I believe it has cut down on transactions and
the profit margin as well, but they can't measure this and
therefore they wont remedy it.
CJL
In a message dated 12/26/2009 8:52:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rixpost...@aol.com
writes:
Thanks, Lumi,
I guess that supports the old adage that if something appears too
good to be true, it is indeed.. too good to be true. Let's just
hope that some newby collector doesn't get suckered in by this guy...
Rick
http://cgi.ebay.com/DR-NO-Original-Movie-Poster-JAMES-BOND-007_W0QQitemZ150393635820QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item230428c3ec
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