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Michael,
Jeez... you guys really have gone off on a witch hunt. Do a
little research on Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and calm down a bit. While
this is a terrible photo to try and judge condition on, there's a very good
chance that most or all of the intensity and apparently obvious nature of
the "white spots" is due to flash reflection. Why? Take a close look
at the top right hand corner, where the video tape still in its glossy shrink
wrap is holding the corner of poster down. You can see the light reflected
off of the video tape and onto the poster and that reflection is showing up
as a definite white bar on the surface of the poster which looks like all the
other "white spots" and that bar is definitely a reflection, not something on
the surface of the poster.
Michael, you really have to reign yourself in a bit. You can't
go around judging and condemning stuff -- at least publicly -- on such
incomplete information. You can't really tell what's going on from this picture
and since the seller is long-time with a good feedback rating, you're not really
entitled to call him a liar and a cheat when he responds to you with what may be
the truth about the poster. I'm very familiar with the way bright,
artificial light like a flash can really accentuate restored areas in a picture
that are virtually invisible when viewed by the naked eye in normal lighting
conditions. First, you should have asked for a better photo -- larger and higher
resolution and WITHOUT flash reflections... ask him to take it out in the
sunlight and photograph it in natural light if he can't control his flash... and
use a viable picture to judge the condition.
Now, you are a stickler for condition and it may well be that
it would still be too much for you, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be
acceptable to another collector who wanted this title. You may be right that the
white sports are incredibly badly-done touch-up work, but from what I can see
here, I kind of doubt it. But the picture simply isn't good enough for me to say
-- or for you to say, either. "Very good-excellent" condition is NOT a rating of
any kind, it can mean whatever the person making the statement wants it to
(which is why I have been advocating for years that sellers use the C1 - C10
rating system, but no one wants to take that much responsibility). Still,
we both know that in movie poster collecting it is acceptable to rate a
poster with this kind of restoration in that condition range IF the
restoration is done well (which it doesn't look like in this photo, but you
simply can't tell from this photo).
I appreciate the alerts you send us, but don't get carried
away... you need more information before you can go public with an accusation
like this -- if the seller won't provide a better photo, then maybe you
should say something or just quietly take a pass, but don't make public
accusations without a better evidentiary foundation than you have on
this.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael B
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:41
Subject: [MOPO] SELLER'S RESPONSE TO ---- I CONFESS
POSTER link:
i questioned the seller about the white marks on the poster. His
response:
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