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Clinton,
I checked out some of the examples you gave:
9138998425
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9139001169 -- same thing. Again, there are a lot of fakes of this floating
around, and they are very good -- no way to tell if this one is a reprint
without a close comparison to a known original. But barring any real evidence
to the contrary, you have to assume it is an original, just as you would from
any other seller who claimed it was.
280000024614
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280000024614 --
this is the PULP FICTION that has been extensively repritned. The caveats in
the listing above also apply here. Unless you know otherwise, you have to
assume it is original... it could be a fake... but so could most of the
others of this title sold by all the other sellers on eBay. This is a real
problem with all popular posters of the last 20 years... it is darn hard to
tell reprints from originals. The studios printed up tons of originals...
sometimes they kept on printing them to supply the poster market directly...
and then duplicators come along and produce even more.
I understand you don't like the way he does business, but it doesn't
appear to be fraud -- unless some of those posters above are fakes and he
knows it. But you can't tell that just looking at the
descriptions. You're right -- he should not list reprints in the
"originals" category, but everyone who sells reprints does that and eBay lets
them. If that's what your primary beef is with him, welcome to the club... but
since he appears to be identifying reprints as such, it not fraud, just a
violation of eBay guidelines and eBay doesn't care about it.
You can report him for using the wrong category, but don't expect eBay to
do anything about it. I used to email sellers who listed in the wrong category
on eBay all the time -- they either just ignored me, laughed at me, or said "I
have to do it because no one will look at my listings if I put them in the
right category". Putting stuff in the wrong category is just a fact of eBay
life (and one of the reasons I started MoviePosterBid over two years ago,
where deliberate mis-categorization is not tolerated).
-- JR
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