The Fakes - Page 5

Page 5

We continue to expand and have decided to retain the photos of past fakes so as to keep a reference library. Many of the fakes offered months, weeks and days ago are relisted again and again. Remember we are selling nothing, offering no services, recommending nobody and have no interest in knowing your e mail address. We are a totally free service devoted to stopping the sale of fake and fraudulent pieces of Tiffany Studios. There is no other agenda.

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While we did not think there is one person who does not know about the great belt buckle scam, the one on the left just sold in England for $631.00 and the seller said it was authenticated by Tiffany & Company.

QUITTENBAUM123

REGOR33

MRLISTERS

CANDACE4281
MADE IN TAIWAN

More news from Page 4 - The word is out that JAMIECOHEN961 sold some of their fake lamps to a customer who has had them evaluated - of course they were fakes - and this customer has asked for a refund as stated in the listing.. No replies and no refunds. On October 6 several more of their fakes were listed on Ebay and one day later they are gone and so is any history of JAMIECOHEN961. Hopefully this seller and the others in this group will be gone forever. Keep watching for more details of this very expensive scam. See references on Page 3 and Page 4.

LIQUIDARTDECO

BIRDLOVER2

ACSTICKLEY

MARVELOUS-MECHHANDISE

GOOD NEWS - Ebay has made SUEQ404 a NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER and Ebay is a safer place now. Strange how all of these sellers started out as bidders and when you saw one sell, you saw the others as a bidder and they would bid many times on the same piece and their bid never seem to meet reserve. See page 4 for more information on them.

We have found JAMIECOHEN961 and is now shown as a NO LONGER A REGISTERED USER. Ebay has removed this seller but was it for selling fakes or because they got caught using shills. Maybe it was because the shill got caught with the high bid and that sale was cancelled and the fake was sold to a real bidder who had no idea that he was buying a fake and then the sale was cancelled to the shill which allows the seller to avoid paying Ebay their commission. Commission on a fake sale for $15,000 is a lot of money. Ebay would not have this problem if they quit letting these scammers hid their business behind the PRIVATE bidder option. Read more about this seller of fakes on page 4. Jamie, why have you not replied to the several certified letters asking for a refund as you say you would do in your listing? Reply to us and we will send it to the buyer you ripped off.

SKINNERINC

AMELIASINTERIOR

ANTIKS107

NORTHWESTCOLLECTOR101

NEWS FROM EBAY - Another new seller has appeared overnight offering 2 new fake and fraudulently signed Tiffany lamps. The seller is ANTIQUEHUNTER0 and the pattern is the same with a low feedback rating but this time there is no guarantee. Two other pieces are also listed but we know nothing about them. We will keep you advised of this latest from a seller who is selling these fakes out of Miami but 2 weeks ago was selling from Atlanta. Seems like the checks for the JAMIECOHEN961 and SUEQ404 fakes were sent to Atlanta. Could this be the same group? Of course the USER ID KEPT PRIVATE, as is the case with most of these fakes which makes it hard to tell the bidders from the shills from the idiots.

DEKE3937

AFS

HORSTINC

GREATLAKESGREETINGS

JUNK4ALL

JMITCHEM

BIG-LOUIEM

DINABOKAR

ITEMS IN RED ITALICS ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS

AMAZING - Check out the new Tiffany sellers on Ebay - MCCJOEA, MAEGRETIEL and ANTIQUEHUNTER0. All brand new within the last few weeks, all using the PRIVATE BIDDER feature and of course, all selling with no guarantee. The listings all seem to have been written by the same person. Makes you just want to send them some money right away. Sure it does.

ANTIQUEGREG62
MADE IN TAIWAN

RBKH
MADE IN TAIWAN

The boat from Taiwan has been unloaded and these are just some of the offerings currently available on Ebay. The sellers know that these are fakes but do not care.

WENDERSKI
MADE IN TAIWAN

FLORAL_QUEEN

KBALLINGER0001

THE-WEAN

GRANNYCHERYLSDESIRABLES

CONSIGNONLINE47ZH

CHRISLIKESAUCTIONS

CONCIERGESTORE

ALLMYNINELIVES

Bidders are paying attention. The fake and fraudulently signed lamps offered by ANTIQUEHUNTER0, MCCJOEA and MAEGRETIEL are receiving lots of bids that amount to less than 10 percent of their value if they were real. Who is bidding on these fakes? Imagine a bid of $9100 on a 18 light lily lamp that should sell for close to $100,000 if real. The other lamps that they are offering as Tiffany Studios era are selling for next to nothing which is what they are worth. We received an e mail from someone who asked "if these lamps are fake, how do they get so many bids?" The answer is that if the bids are PRIVATE, who knows if the bidders are real or if they are shills, do they have a feedback rating of 0 like the sellers and are there really 20 bids or just two shills bidding and bidding to make it look like there is activity. When you see a bidder with a low rating and see that they buy or sell low priced dolls or car parts, you would have to wonder why they are bidding on a Tiffany lamp.

Seller MAEGRETIEL has 2 lamps offered on Ebay now and neither is guaranteed to be genuine and neither can be paid for with PayPal or a credit card. What's with that?

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All of the animals below are offered by DRJUSTICE and all of them are fakes. The seller thinks that one is especially rare because the Tiffany name has been mispelled but the other 2 are just plain rare.

MADE IN TAIWAN

1USAKID

DUEGEE

On the right and on the left are two fake signatures - Tiffany signed his glass in a counter clockwise fashion - not clockwise as shown on these pieces.

BBS6016SDK

BUYING AT AUCTIONS

A word of caution about buying Tiffany from the Ebay Live Auctions. Be very careful, ask questions and do not assume anything just because it is a live auction. Most are very reputable but some are used by owners to unload fake Tiffany and these can be told by the short descriptions, too few pictures with no guarantee of authenticity, and what about the 20 - 25 percent buyer's fee in addition to the selling price. Common sense is always the best defense against fakes.

U2OFFER

ANTIQUES_ROSARIO

DUEGEE

ARORAAMORE

IBID2MUCH

DORILEE7

PENHOOK

LOUISW606

EASHT
MADE IN TAIWAN

DR._HACKINBUSH

GDEARTH
(GENUINE BASE)

AFS
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He's back. MCCJOEA is back with his 2 fake lamps again. One is now called a Clematis but is the same lamp from a few weeks ago when it was called a Floral. The other is the same desk lamp as before that has yet to get even one bid. Still no Paypal, no credit card and no guarantee. Now he has a new one listed. Check out his VERY VERY RARE and VERY VERY FAKE Dragonfly shade just listed. Watch out for all three of them and we are sure he has more hidden away.

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"BUYING OFF EBAY" - This is a practice that some of the sellers of fake Tiffany pieces use to sell their pieces and it works like this: using shills (their partners) they keep bidding until the auction is over. The high bidder is the shill and the second high bidder is the sucker. The sucker get an e mail from the seller- Ebay calls this a "Second Chance Offer" - and the seller gives you some excuse for not selling to the high bidder and, lucky you, can now buy it for your bid price. The item probably did not offer a guarantee but if it did, you are going to get stuck with a fake and Ebay will not be able to help you in any way. This happened to an Ebayer and he lost over $27,000 and has had no luck getting his money back for a fake although the seller promised it to be genuine. You cannot tell the real bidders from the shills when the seller uses the PRIVATE BIDDER feature so if you want to gamble, this is the wrong way.

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TONYV1896

USER49687

SEVERSONROSE

YOKONO1962

ANTIQUEHUNTER0 is back again with the same 3 fake shades with no guarantee, no credit cards and no PayPal.. Wonder if anybody but the shills bid on these fakes?.

Seller MAEGRETIEL can no longer be found on Ebay and hopefully, you were not taken in by his fakes with no guarantee, no credit cards and no PayPal. Read about this seller above.

TOPSAILWATCH

LUCASK7

GREATAMERICANAUCTIONSERVICE

CHGAUCTIONS

FLYFISHERWOMAN

JHOW180211EKQ

For more fakes click here for page 6