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Page 11
AUGUST 22, 2007
MORE OF THE SAME FROM THE SAME
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They are back again with the same old tired fake
and fraudulently signed lamps. The Acorn shade currently offered by
WORLDTREASURESEXPERT27 who just changed their Ebay name from
JORUSSY56. and who in the past 30 days has used an address in Texas,
then Southeast US and now is using United States, USA. One of their
newest listings is an Acorn shade, fake of course, that has been
offered by ROBMAZ56, Southeastern, United States, JAMIECOHEN961,
Southeastern Coast, United States, LENNRICK893, Merrillville, In,
ANTIQUEHUNTER0, Miami, Florida. It is again listed as a PRIVATE sale,
no PayPal and no Escrow. Wonder why? This seller has another lamp
listed which is on a Grueby base and if you read the listing, it
clearly states that PayPal will not be accepted "for items over
$15,000". This means you can use PayPal for under $15,000 on
this Grueby lamp but cannot use PayPal on the Acorn for any amount.
What it really means is that the Grueby most likely has a reserve of
over $15,000. We have written about this group of sellers who we
believe operate out of the Atlanta area and their fakes has been on
this site since page 2, along with articles on them on pages 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9 and page 10 and have used as many as 14 different names most
of which have been shut down by Ebay. Do not bid without an agreement
in place to use an escrow account or pay with Paypal. Always secure
the opinion of an outside expert and do not let the seller make a
recommendation to their expert or you will be pushed into the arms of
a partner, a parking lot attendant or maybe an auctioneer in Atlanta.
The internet is full of dealers with reputations above reproach and
many have been in business for many years with their main interest
being all things Tiffany. When you see a listing for a Tiffany lamp
or shade and you see doublespeak in the listing, you are heading into
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Here's more. The first lamp offered sold for
$25.000 but there is no feedback which could mean that it was bid up
by a shill or that the sale was not completed for some reason. Two
other fakes which have been seen before when offered by other members
of this ring were listed. One did not reach reserve and the other did
not even get one bid. Maybe the shills are on vacation. Just when you
have all of this figured out, up pops another new member - AL_4_SALE3
- from Cincinnati with a fake Hydrangea but just as quickly as it
came up, it disappears with no trace and when there is no trace, that
is the work of Ebay. The Ebay number was 280147257695. What's with
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Can you believe this? WORLDTREASURESEXPERT27 has
been removed by Ebay and another of their names has joined the
growing list of NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER. You would think these
idiots with their fake shades and fake bases would learn. Maybe they
will now just confine their sales of this fake Tiffany to their
Atlanta auction house and leave the fakes off of Ebay. We received an
angry e mail from one of their members who says "Ebay is just to
get contacts and it works". If you would like a copy of RayRob's
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Since the newest named seller is now NO LONGER A
REGISTERED USER, they have replaced that name with a new name -
MASTER-SELLER45. This seller is using Key West as the new address and
has listed 2 lamps but does not call them Tiffany in the title but
refers to them as "old tiffany signed" or "old studios
signed" in the listing. Check out the new payment plan which is
that "all methods of permissible U.S. Currency
transactions". What does that garbage mean? Do they take PayPal?
Almost forgot. You have seen both lamps before at least 4 times
offered by different sellers from different cities and all of that
traveling has not caused these 2 lamps to become genuine and of
course, this new seller does not guarantee them to be genuine Tiffany
Studios either. Of course it is a new seller with 0 feedback. They do
keep trying.
Another member of this dysfunctional family of
fake Tiffany sellers has relisted a lamp again - a week ago it was
listed as a "Miniature Hydrangea Lamp" and now the very
same lamp is listed as "Old Studios Floral". It is listed
as "Old Studios" in the title and in the listing it is
called "original Studios piece", "made in New
York" and also as "old Studios lamp". This is the same
seller discussed above - AL_4_sale3 - and the listing says the seller
is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Compare the listing from Cincinnati to the
listing from Key West and you will be amazed at all of the
similarities Also this is a new seller with a 0 feedback rating and
of course, the bidders are PRIVATE so as to protect the shills as
they run the price up. Do not be caught when the bidding stops or you
will be stuck with an overpriced fake.
What a wonderful day it is today. All of the
listing mentioned above by the two sellers above have been withdrawn
by Ebay. How would you know this? Any listing that is for sale or
sold can, for at least a period of 30 days, be found either by
listing the number of the item or the name of the seller and it will
show what happened to it. When Ebay removes an item, it is gone and
cannot be found - no picture, no listing, no anything. Surely they
will be back.
AL_4_SALE3 already have another new fake listed
and has a brand new Ebay name which is now OLDTIFFANYLAMPSELER. It is
Ebay 280150351551 and is titled as ANTIQUE DRAGONFLY LEADED GLASS
& BRONZE LAMP but in the listing it is called Tiffany Studios and
both the "shade and base are guaranteed old". That is very
comforting news. It has been listed before several times by several
of their names and from several of their fake cities.
The mighty hand of Ebay has struck again and the
often seen Dragonfly is gone with no record that it was ever offered
by OLDTIFFANYLAMPSELER. Thanks to Ebay again.
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JOEBRADLEYCOLLECTIBLES |
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The student lamp on the left might be correct but
the shades on the right were not made by Tiffany.
PRETTYBABYLAWYER |
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AUTHENTIC_TIFFANY_STUDIOS_BUYSELL$$$$$
This is a brand new (09/06/07) name of a seller
that is mentioned on Page 10 of this site. You may not be able to bid
on their current listings since it appears that after just 2 or 3
days, they are no longer for sale. On Page 10 they were known as
CIRCA1897 and less than 2 weeks before they took that name, they were
knows as ARTGAL97. RayRob, one of the hanger ons of this group sent
an e mail saying that we are wasting out time as they have more names
then we can even imagine. Wonder what he is up to? The interesting
part of their new listing is that it is the turtleback seen many
times before but this time it is (correctly) not called Tiffany in
the listing. The base is signed on the bottom but a picture is not
shown and the signature is not identified. What's with that? Watch
out for this new name.
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LOOKOUT
New to Ebay is BREZACHER who has a
0 feedback rating and has been a member of the Ebay community since
9-17-07 (4 days) and has a listing for a Tiffany Studios Antique
Leaded Glass Lamp - Ebay 110117206473. This lamp is not new to Ebay
and was listed by JAMIECOHEN961 - the lamp is shown on page 3 and
news about this seller starts on page 4 and there is a comment on
almost every page after page 4 about this seller and the other names
used - and it was Ebay 140011501562 on 7-30-06 and then again as
140021061744 on 8-27-06. JAMIECOHEN961, like the rest of the other
names used, have all become NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER as Ebay
closes them out. The very unusual thing about this current listing is
that the photos from a year ago when it was for sale from the
Southeastern Coast are exactly the very same photos from the current
listing although it now is for sale from Long Grove, Illinois. The
lamp is shown on the same table, in the same placement and the cord
hangs exactly the same place as the older photos. There are some
differences. In the new listing there are only three photos while
before there were many which made it very easy to see the lack of
quality, the signatures and the close up photos of the glass. The
seller says they will accept PayPal so be sure and protect yourself
if you buy this lamp. Rayrob promised in an earlier e mail that they
have more names than we can keep up with and the listings on Ebay are
just to find buyers and sell it to them off Ebay. Be very careful of
this group or you will face the same financial hardships that they
have placed on unsuspecting buyers both on and off Ebay who have
purchased their lamps only to find that they are fakes and cannot be
returned and the sellers will not honor their guarantee. Good bye money..
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ARMCANDYCONSIGNMENT-COM |
SKYCODY |
CUBA6947 |
MIATACUTIE |
EVERY PIECE OF FAKE TIFFANY IS NOT
ON THIS SITE. ONE OF
THE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING TIFFANY ON EBAY ARE
THE PHOTOS SHOWN WITH THE LISTING. DO NOT BUY TIFFANY WHEN THERE IS
ONLY ONE PICTURE TO BE SEEN OR WHEN THERE IS NO PICTURE OF THE BASE
OR THE SIGNATURE. ALTHOUGH THIS ALONE IS NOT THE ONLY BASIS FOR
DETERMINING THE REAL FROM THE FAKE, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
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CLIFFPRINTS6NJN |
SUPERNANA |
GOLDEN1424 |
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CHECK THIS OUT
Current Ebay listing150164211799 is
another fake from the same people who have brought you so many other
fakes.It is not that there are so many, it is just that they keep
offering the same old fakes. This current fake is listed by
SILENCEJUNGLE from Riverside, California. This very same lamp was
offered as 220105105147 on April 26, 2007 by SALLOUSHA1 from Herndon,
Virginia, 110128149469 on May 21, 2007 by CAPTNJACK210 from Greer,
South Carolina, 110131800767 on May 31, 2007 again by CAPTNJACK210,
290156959008 on September 7, 2007 by MASTER-SELLER45 from Miami,
Florida. In a 6 month period, it has been listed 5 different times by
4 different sellers from 4 different states. Amazing. But there is
more. All of the sellers listed this lamp with a 0 rating, all of the
pictures are the same, and all of the sellers with the exception of
the current seller show that they are NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER and
that their account has been suspended by Ebay. How can all of this be
possible? It is already bid up to $5000 and Ebay is offering this
seller an opportunity to sell it with the bidders identity hidden so
you cannot tell if the bidders have history with Ebay or are just new
Ebayers acting as shills.
You have read about these sellers on previous pages but they just
keep coming back. Absolutely amazing. If you place a bid, it is never
enough to meet reserve but them you will receive an e mail from the
seller offering it to you for your bid and then it is all downhill
from there.
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READ MORE ABOUT THIS SELLER ON
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THIS EXPLAINS IT ALL
"One last thing for me to
point out to you is that if you run a search on ebay for
Tiffany-Favrile vases, my listing doesn't even appear. I did this
intentionally. I was careful to have it not appear when anyone is
looking for Tiffany-Favrile pieces. I did this by leaving no spaces
between LC and Tiffany. Clearly I am not trying to market this to
people looking for LC Tiffany-Favrile pieces. It is just being
marketed for people looking for pretty vases." This is from
ARMCANDYCONSIGNMENT-COM who listed a fake piece of Tiffany (shown on
this page) with an opening bid of $6000.00. Clearly this must be the
new normal opening price for a "pretty vase". Sure it is.
You can believe the seller or you can read the listing: " L C
Tiffany Favrile Glass Vase, Height 11 inches" and you can
see the listing as Ebay 290163277488
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MORE JUNK - A LESSON IN QUALITY
Ebay150167104509 has been
relisted again for the 4th time, this time by SILENCEJUNGLE. Others
who have offered this fake have been ROBMAZ56 - twice - and
JAMIECOHEN961 both of whom share the distinction of having been
assigned as NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER by Ebay. There is a lesson
here and if you would look at the very bottom picture on the right
side, you will see the fake and fraudulently signed tags that have
been attached to this shade. Immediately above the tags you can see a
solder job not worthy of a high school shop class. The base signature
must be something special as it is not even shown. Provenance is a
joke and remember to pay with PayPal so you will have some protection
This 0 rated seller mentioned
directly above (SILENCEJUNGLE) has a new listing and it is for an
ANTIQUE LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE LAMP with no mention of Tiffany in
the title. When you get to the listing, it is all about Tiffany but
this seller of fakes offers nothing but his word that the base and
the shade are signed. Wonder why there are no pictures of the signatures?
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