Thanks
Martin. A great job!
The last two pieces (L.Procilius and anonymous in the
style of Gargilia) I have not reported to
eBay. I have not seen them before and generally don't like to make calls just from photo's unless they are already established as
fakes from identical pieces or held in the hand (I've put together a
collection of 30 or so of these
fakes).
I have been hammering
eBay about the
republican fakes and am restricting myself to indisputable
fakes so the issue is not clouded. I will be away for a few days and will investigate these two pieces when I get back. It is always possible he has
salted his fakes with a genuine piece or two, the opposite to what most crooks do.
If anyone has any comment on the two pieces I would appreciate hearing from you.
In the meantime, I
hope everyone and
his dog will complain to
eBay about the definite
fakes. The volume of overall
fakes being sold by this
crook may be the best chance to force
eBay to actually do something. It could hardly be more blatant.
I am informed by
eBay that they forward these
fake complaints to the
ANA for judgement (via a reference group) and then may either warn the seller, cancel the
auction or, suspend the seller. This is obviously completely inadequate to deal with a
crook like
batibaleno. There is no mention of restitution to the defrauded collectors and by the time the process is carried out the
auction is well over.
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