Re: [MOPO] Fake "King Kong" on eBay

2023-09-08 Thread Greg Douglass
 

Hi Alan,

Yeah, those crooks are belligerent, aren't they? But as I hit "Send" on the eBay report, my imagination conjured some nasty piece of work named Chuey looking over my shoulder going "Dooglass, joo KNOW what we do to sneetches!!!"


A passing brain fart from my checkered past. I feel like an upstanding citizen who has done the Right Thing. I also feel like eBay will probably do absolutely nothing...but I will slip into the slumber of the righteous tonight.

By the way, my wife has approval of all posters that go into shared living areas. Lugosi's "The Invisible Ghost" passed muster and I'm so glad; it's my favorite poster in my collection and my favorite Lugosi image. She also loves "Virgin Sacrifice". "Such gorgeous colors", she said. I hactually ave approval to have it linen backed.

My office, on the other hand, looks like Times Square circa 1959.

Best,

Greg Douglass

About to do yoga in Coos Bay

 

Sent: Friday, September 08, 2023 at 11:27 AM
From: "Alan Heimann" 
To: "Greg Douglass" 
Cc: MoPo-L@listserv.american.edu
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fake "King Kong" on eBay


Hey Greg.. this is a bit reminiscent of some thing I encountered recently…  over the many years that I’ve been collecting my wife, kind of runs, hot and cold, more cold about me buying Posters… However, as I am now nearing the end of what I want to collect she tries to be helpful… I don’t participate in social media, Facebook, etc. but she does… The other day I was telling her what things I’m looking forward to finish off the collection… I guess she was receptive cause one of the things I mentioned was I was looking for the Spanish one sheet for the red shoes so she said let me try Facebook… And I said you’re wasting your time but she did and somebody got back to her and said oh I have that so my wife, after all these years is a bit savvy she says, can you tell me what the poster measures, and what does it say on the bottom or sides of the poster and the guy said it measures 27 x 40… My wife said well you have some sort of reproduction that’s not the original Spanish poster and the guy got fairly belligerent and said, what makes you think you know that it’s not an original I assure you it is… Anyway, I encourage her not to respond further … anyway hope all the mopoers  had a healthy and happy Labor Day weekend..best to all Alan

 

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 2:10 PM Greg Douglass <pickmeis...@mail.com> wrote:




I'm officially a snitch, or a "sneetch" as my Hispanic drug dealing friends would say.

There's a guy attempting to sell an obviously fake 1938R "one sheet" on eBay for 45K. The borders are conveniently cut off "by the former owners to fit into a frame". The dimensions positively scream "PORTAL F**king PUBLICATIONS".

I realize that no one in their right minds is going to lay down 45 large for such a wretched piece of porpoise puke but rather than waste my time contacting the seller...who is obviously delusional and probably dangerous...I contacted eBay security.

What made me so angry was the guy's belief in other people's stupidity. If you're going to cheat people, at least do it credibly. Nothing pisses me off worse than a crappy con man.

Best,

Greg Douglass

Coos Bay, OR


 


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Re: [MOPO] Fake "King Kong" on eBay

2023-09-08 Thread Alan Heimann
Hey Greg.. this is a bit reminiscent of some thing I encountered recently…
 over the many years that I’ve been collecting my wife, kind of runs, hot
and cold, more cold about me buying Posters… However, as I am now nearing
the end of what I want to collect she tries to be helpful… I don’t
participate in social media, Facebook, etc. but she does… The other day I
was telling her what things I’m looking forward to finish off the
collection… I guess she was receptive cause one of the things I mentioned
was I was looking for the Spanish one sheet for the red shoes so she said
let me try Facebook… And I said you’re wasting your time but she did and
somebody got back to her and said oh I have that so my wife, after all
these years is a bit savvy she says, can you tell me what the poster
measures, and what does it say on the bottom or sides of the poster and the
guy said it measures 27 x 40… My wife said well you have some sort of
reproduction that’s not the original Spanish poster and the guy got fairly
belligerent and said, what makes you think you know that it’s not an
original I assure you it is… Anyway, I encourage her not to respond further
… anyway hope all the mopoers  had a healthy and happy Labor Day
weekend..best to all Alan

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 2:10 PM Greg Douglass  wrote:

> I'm officially a snitch, or a "sneetch" as my Hispanic drug dealing
> friends would say.
> There's a guy attempting to sell an obviously fake 1938R "one sheet" on
> eBay for 45K. The borders are conveniently cut off "by the former owners to
> fit into a frame". The dimensions positively scream "PORTAL F**king
> PUBLICATIONS".
> I realize that no one in their right minds is going to lay down 45 large
> for such a wretched piece of porpoise puke but rather than waste my time
> contacting the seller...who is obviously delusional and probably
> dangerous...I contacted eBay security.
> What made me so angry was the guy's belief in other people's stupidity. If
> you're going to cheat people, at least do it credibly. Nothing pisses me
> off worse than a crappy con man.
> Best,
> Greg Douglass
> Coos Bay, OR
>
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[MOPO] Fake "King Kong" on eBay

2023-09-08 Thread Greg Douglass
I'm officially a snitch, or a "sneetch" as my Hispanic drug dealing friends would say.

There's a guy attempting to sell an obviously fake 1938R "one sheet" on eBay for 45K. The borders are conveniently cut off "by the former owners to fit into a frame". The dimensions positively scream "PORTAL F**king PUBLICATIONS".

I realize that no one in their right minds is going to lay down 45 large for such a wretched piece of porpoise puke but rather than waste my time contacting the seller...who is obviously delusional and probably dangerous...I contacted eBay security.

What made me so angry was the guy's belief in other people's stupidity. If you're going to cheat people, at least do it credibly. Nothing pisses me off worse than a crappy con man.

Best,

Greg Douglass

Coos Bay, OR


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