WARRIORS POSTER ON EBAY....FRAUD?

Bopper · Post by **Bopper** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:27 am

Warning boppers! There is a autographed Warriors poster on Ebay right now, most of you have already seen it I am sure...I bought an autographed Warriors poster on there a month or two ago for 165 bucks...thoght it was a one of a kind "guaranteed authentic" piece. The poster on ebay now has pictures that are my poster...so either he didn't take new pictures of the poster he is selling and is lazy....or this is a fraud.

The signatures on the auction perfectly match my poster in angle, location, and size. I am waiting for a response from the seller and new pics if the poster he is selling is different in some way

I say if he is trying to jerk the hardcore fans around we go down to West Covina and stick a bat up someones ass and turn them into a popsicle.

Be lookin good Warriors...be lookin real good

-Bopper

MrVess · Post by **MrVess** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:20 pm

Or he's signing/stamping the posters himself.

165 USD for a piece of paper?

Irishfan · Post by **Irishfan** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:24 pm

Did you ever get in touch with him after?

Shakespeare · Post by **Shakespeare** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:21 am

THAT IS A CRIME!!! SHAME ON THAT PERSON!

furies · Post by **furies** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:50 am

The only way to guarantee an autograph is authentic is to get it in person. Certificates of authenticity can be as fake as the signature. Buyer beware when buying autographs on auction sites. Bopper is obviously confident the one he/she got is authentic and probably knows the reasons that make him/her confident and that is great ! Also thanks for the heads up Bopper it's people like you that help in stamping out this fraudulent crap.

Post by **SoldierHeavyMuscle** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:22 pm

good news boppers! the alert has been called off! bopper and me went round and round with this guy during this auction. i was the high bidder until bopper got in touch with me and warned me, and i let it go. well after the auction, the company "autograph resellers" gets in touch with me, and sends me pix of the new poster and informs me the high bidders check bounced! would i still be interested. it seems they collect the autographs from venders, and get lists of all the autographs that are available, so they listed the second warriors poster before they actually had it. using the old pix from boppers poster. hence forth the controversy!! i have sent pix to bopper and he confirms that the signatures match, but are in different places. so we are now content knowing that both our posters are authentic. this guy's o.k. it was pretty cool of him to even think of still dealing with me after we gave him all that shit about being a fraud. (and we did 2! lol)

Post by **The Fox** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:17 pm

You have to be sure for that sort of money. Keeping the same picture didn't help the man.

Glad all is now sorted may buy the next one if i can muster up the cash.

StevenFallonNYC · Post by **StevenFallonNYC** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:06 pm

jamiepikee (Fox) wrote:You have to be sure for that sort of money. Keeping the same picture didn't help the man.

Glad all is now sorted may buy the next one if i can muster up the cash.

Yeah using the same photo was just downright stupid. Ebayers are pretty savvy especially when collecting their fave stuff, like Warrior fans collecting Warriors stuff.

Reminds me of a similar experience, just a little different. I collect old matchbox "Superfast" cars, and bought one off a guy (named "bo_p" coincidentally), a MIB #46 gold Mercedes, like this one...

..anyways, I got it for just 12 bucks, a steal, I guess no one was into that car that week. Now bo_p, all of his pics are the same, just side views of the car and box. He uses the same pics every week of the same car because he sells the same stuff and that way he doesn't have to take new ones. You can't see the top of the car in his pics, and the car he sent me had a big red paint blotch on the hood.

I emailed and said hey, this isn't MIB, it has a huge red paint blotch which was NOT in the auction description. I told him I knew what he did - he always sells this car, but because I got it for only twelve bucks, he sent me the one he had with the paint blotch. He offered a refund, which I didn't take because the car probably was worth 12 bucks with the blotch, and I didn't leave him neg feedback. But for a guy with a good rep on ebay (one neg out of almost 1500) I thought it was a sleezy thing to do to me.

The moral of the story? Be wary of same-pic sellers, and Matchbox/Hot Wheels should do a Warriors line, with the Rougesmobile, police car, Turnbulls bus, and that white truck that appears in a few places on the street LOL.