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“Historic Souvenirs” Cancels “Global Antiques” eBay Auctions; “Auction Depot LA” Update

All but two of the eBay auction items listed by new eBay seller “Historic Souvenirs” (historicsouvenirs) – more than 50 in total – have been canceled by the seller. Though “Private Listings”, many showed bidding activity, and several were scheduled to end today. Most all of these items, with Certificates of Authenticity from “Global Antiques”, were canceled.

More, the remotely hosted photos of these items have been removed, leaving listings with no photos of the items offered for sale as “authentic” and “original” memorabilia. The eBay “Store” for the account no longer appears to exist either. [Read more…]

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Auction Shop USA Update: Private eBay Feedback Profile

Per eBay, Auction Shop USA (auctionshopusa) has converted their Feedback Profile from “public” to “private”. This means that no one can read, access, or review comments left by customers about their eBay transactions with Auction Shop USA – only the raw overall percentage remains. This change also prohibits the seller from listing items for sale on eBay so long as the Feedback Profile is private.

The comment from eBay on the feedback page reads: [Read more…]

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“Global Antiques” Returns To eBay: “Historic Souvenirs”

A new eBay account was created on May 27, 2008 – “Historic Souvenirs” (historicsouvenirs) – and this seller has today begun listing new items with “Global Antiques” Certificates of Authenticity, using the same auction format style and much of the same marketing description content as seen in the “Auction Depot LA” (auctiondepotla1) listings for the same kind of offerings. [Read more…]

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Auction Depot LA, Auction Shop USA, Global Antiques: The Lord of the Rings and “Big Lots!”

The purpose of this article is to analyze two pieces offered at auction on eBay, authenticated by “Global Antiques” and marketed by “Auction Depot LA” (auctiondepotla1) and “Auction Shop USA” (auctionshopusa) that are attributed to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as authentic movie props.

Items that appear to match these items for sale have been found at the retail store chain “Big Lots!” in recent days.

This was brought to my attention by the winner of one of the two auctions, who came across one of several of my articles looking into the provenance and authenticity of these Global Antiques pieces sold on eBay (see subcategory “Global Antiques“).

The following is an archived auction listing and live link for the item offered for sale to the public on eBay by Auction Depot LA, with a Certificate of Authenticity from the same source/authenticator, also described as “curator” in the listings, “City of Los Angeles Global Antiques”.

This listing ended April 29th, realizing a sales price of $61.10. The winner of this auction contacted me after finding what she describes to be the same item at the retail store, “Big Lots!”. I went to one of these stores today and was able to secure the same piece for $10.00 in order to take comparison photographs. [Read more…]