This attitude is ubiquitous, Dave. I had a call from a guy who had "an original
"Wizard of Oz" poster. I told him it was a Portal, but he insisted in meeting
with me to show me the poster. At that meeting, even after I pointed out that
there were no zip codes in the U.S. until the early 60s (Portal's zip is on all
their posters, and I believe they are still in business doing other graphic
stuff), he indignantly said, "Well, my uncle said it was real. I don't care
what YOU say! I'll sell it myself."
There is no cure in sight for stupidity. Thanks for the story.
Greg Douglass
---- David Lieberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are tons of repros of this out there, I'm sure you all know.
>
> At least once a month we get a call that starts out something like "I have
> an original BAT poster I know it is real because blah blah blah...."
>
> We have even put an article on our web site in two places to help people
> spot reproductions of this one.
>
> We got another call yesterday. I told her to measure it (it was
> undersized), I asked her if it was ever folded (it wasn't). I told her it
> was a repro, sorry. She started screaming "but it is a limited edition" I
> said it doesn't matter, she said it says "property of.......", I said it
> doesn't matter. She said "I know it is real you don't know anything", so I
> hung up on her.
>
> and here it is.
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/221187410623
>
>
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