Bang up job on the letter, Rich.
However, one area of all of this that I believe needs to be addressed is the
responsibility of Profiles itself. The auction house is not a "victim,"
really, in this fiasco. As others have pointed out previously on this forum,
the auction house which charges about 1/5 of the hammer price on an item MUST
stand in the docket when the issue of fraud is raised.
They (auction houses) wax enthusiastically about their offerings when it
comes to advertising the wares that have been entrusted with on consignment.
They (auction houses) take their pound of flesh on both ends in the form of
consignment fees and buyer's premiums. They (auction houses) must be held
accountable when they promote a poster that has a retail value of some $300 on
the cover of their prestigious catalogue and estimate that same poster to have
a possible auction value in the hundereds of thousands of dollars.
Sad, Sad, Sad. state of affairs. Proclaimed "ignorance" of printing
techniques is no excuse whatsoever as to their culpability in this thwarted
attempted massive fraud upon the hobby.
Steve Poole (just a "small potatoes" poster collector)
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