eBay News: eBay Awash in Jackson Memorabilia, Real and Fake
Wednesday July 1, 2009
eBay listings selling Michael Jackson memorabilia have surged in the days following the pop icon's death, with clearly authentic items being far outnumbered by items whose relation to Jackson is tenuous at best or whose authenticity can't easily be verified.
In hard numbers, listings mentioning Jackson were up from just a few hundred weekly to a few hundred thousand immediately after his passing, settling down to the better part of a hundred thousand over the last day or two.
Experts are warning buyers to be wary about listings that imply or make claims about direct links to the entertainer himself. More details at:
• L.A. Weekly
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Vancouver Sun
• The Baltimore Business Journal
In hard numbers, listings mentioning Jackson were up from just a few hundred weekly to a few hundred thousand immediately after his passing, settling down to the better part of a hundred thousand over the last day or two.
Experts are warning buyers to be wary about listings that imply or make claims about direct links to the entertainer himself. More details at:
• L.A. Weekly
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Vancouver Sun
• The Baltimore Business Journal
Comments
Check out the YouTube videos by “tomtresh2″ on Michael Jackson forgeries.
Who exactly does Tom Tresh think he is? He appears to have superhuman powers, enabling him to be able to identify fake autographs, without seeing them or attempting to find out about their authenticity. He has the audacity to assume that all sellers of autographs are selling fakes and that buyers have no idea what they are doing. If someone buys an autograph in good faith and has every reason to believe that it is authentic, they have every right to do what they want with it afterwards – including selling it on e-bay. Tom Tresh has absolutely no right to make slanderous comments, using generalisations about people. Maybe he should get out more, instead of spending his time trawling through e-bay ads, maligning people, who are not only selling Michael Jackson autographs, but who also have other items on sale. By association, is he also implying that these people are trying to defraud others with every item they have on sale? I think that his videos should be withdrawn from Youtube and he should be made to issue some kind of personal apology.
What the hell are you talking about Mr. Jones! From what I’ve noticed he’s not claiming to know that all autographs are fake. He’s pointing out the obvious ones. The ones that I’m sure YOU are trying to sell on sites such as eBay, overstock, amazon, etc.
Why else would you make such aggressive, insensate, slanderous comments/remarks against someone who is trying to educate the uneducated.
I’m assuming you realize that all autographs in the hobby/marketplace are 80%-90% fake. So in all reality it’s not too terribly hard to be wrong when claiming almost every autograph on these websites are fake. You sir need to educate yourself on the hobby before you start talking out the side of your mouth!