Do the Portal scams never stop?
There's a guy on eBay who listed an obvious Portal repro as an original 1938 re-release 1 sheet. The listing is titled "KING KONG RKO, ORIGINAL 1938 MOVIE POSTER (24X18)". The description reads, in part; "This poster was cut off at the bottom to fit into this frame by the previous owners before I purchased it. I know it can effect the value, but it's still an original poster RKO-R1938 that you don't find laying around everyday by luck. So if you want this, once in a life time poster then................MAKE ME AN OFFER I CAN'T REFUSE!"
"...cut off at the bottom..."; tough break! 24 X 18"? No folds? This shmohawk also lifts phrases directly from a Heritage description of the real deal that sold for $77,000 to punch up his B.S. He's asking a mere $45,000 for this obvious phony. If you can't afford this, he's also asking $1300 for a Portal Chaplin poster. But it's an ORIGINAL Portal so...
Is there anyone stupid enough on the planet to fall for this? Of course, I'm sure eBay could give two s**ts about obvious fraud being commited on their site.
Is America getting dumber or are crooks just getting bolder? It's frustrating and depressing to a long-time collector like myself. I recently had a guy contact me about an "original" "Wizard of Oz" poster. I met him and told him it was a Portal, worth, at best, 40 bucks. He called me a cheat and a "know-it-all" and accused me of wanting to scam him out of his treasure so I could sell it for a fortune.
It's a tsunami of tsupidity out there.
Greg Douglass
Coos Bay, OR
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