eBay Fraud?

[Angantyr]

Well,

What can you say...

I cannot believe that anybody actually bought it, i mean, the first glance at this picture really screamed "computer animated" no real-life picture is that perfect.

All that said, I suppose that not making any mistakes, is not learning either...

Happy New Year!

Angantyr

Originally Posted by pstrany

Hi;

came across this on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:SS:US:1123

This "color photo" is actually a screen capture from Microsoft Flight Simulator of Mike Cyul's ME 262 model. It is a very nice model, to be sure, but hardly a "historic color print".
What's sad is in reviewing his feedback, at least one person bought this "historic color print"........

Paul

[ChrisS]

Laughable, but maybe the guy thinks that it's real???

My dark side says: don't report him and wait and see who else would buy it.....

Hey has anybody contacted Ewbank he could use some new pictures.......

[edwest]

A friend of mine used to collect animation cels. The catalogs he received contained interesting terminology not for the unwary. Example: a "presentation background" may or may not have been used in the film or could be drawn by someone entirely unconnected. A "photo-litho" background was just a lithographic print of a photo of the original background. My friend was present at a live auction where an individual bought a piece with such a background. He thought it was original! Granted, "photo-litho" is not a term one uses in everyday conversation. Almost needless to say, after someone among the participants told him this, this man went to the auctioneer and demanded a refund. The auctioneer calmly pointed out that the term "photo-litho" was used in the description and defined in the catalog.

Outright fraud, such as in this case, is not uncommon either, but sometimes, isolated individuals who are unaware of forums like this, assume they've spotted something unique. But, even though one can find answers to questions in under one tenth of a second on google, there are more than a few who simply don't want to do the "work."

Oh well. Perhaps once bitten and warned for the future.



Ed