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There was an episode of American greed about a woman using a high end printer to make fakes, they would sell them on a home shopping network style tv show. Lite
by paulie_a 7y ago
There was an episode of American greed about a woman using a high end printer to make fakes, they would sell them on a home shopping network style tv show. Literally selling well known artists work. Everyone would win the auction for the "one of a kind authentic" piece.
Fun fact, she spelled chagel wrong and the buyer asked about it.
- yitchelle 7y agoWhat was her explanation?
- paulie_a 7y agoShe lied to living artists about authorized prints and basically just was brazen in not caring. The target price range made it easier. No one was authenticating the work at the time. So not much of an explanation from her other than bad lies. It was basically like copying 1 or 5 dollar bills, no one checks those
- sct202 7y agoCruise ships basically sell the same thing-although a lot of their paintings sound licensed-and some paintings are embellished slightly with a few dashes of paint to make them 'unique'/'one-of-a-kind'.
- paulie_a 7y agoA cruise line was included in that particular episode for exactly that. But in this case it was outright fraud.
- obmelvin 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dementia-cruise-ship-auctions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/peter-max-dement... Interesting article about how Peter Max's name was taken advantage of & how people on cruise ships were carefully misled into thinking they were buying special art