Spectre prop scam
alphaagent
Posts: 433MI6 Agent
No doub't some of you have seen and been bidding on some spectre concept art auctions on ebay. i personally bid up to £200.00 on a concept art mask auction, that involved a costume design for the day of the dead mexico scene which included a female skull mask. There have been two such auctions that i have seen, with different masks which have fetched some pretty high fees. The ebay seller known as ukreneactor listed the item as an original and stated that as most of the designs were makeup, finding an actual background mask was incredibly rare. If you check said sellers feedback as a buyer, he recently got some great feedback from a certain "screamers costumes" and take a look what they sell. Suspicious anyone?
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http://www.ebay.ie/itm/James-Bond-007-SPECTRE-Daniel-Craig-film-used-prop-/201398943628?hash=item2ee44fff8c
£295.00 final bid. Looks authentic, certainly more so than the second but still leaves too many question marks.
Very shady
An incredible piece of history if genuine? although it is unclear if the artwork is printed or merely stuck on? The Bond Day of Dead costume page appears to have lost part of its bottom left description where it says 007 which one would not expect from a professionally printed property. If genuine one would assume the production company may just class it as stolen..allegedly
Even though this on the surface may look suspect I must point out that the seller's brother used to run the company Rareprops who before vanishing without a trace had incredible access to some amazing screen utilised properties including the light up Ericsson JB988 Gadget Phone from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Can you post a link to it ?
I'd say that most SPECTRE production items now on enay are almost certainly fakes
don't know what this means but I've seen all of these concept pages in seperate auctions allready ?:)
This could easily be cleared up by the seller coming forward and giving provenance to his wares. He has been questioned in the past and has said he wants to bring 'genuine' props to the general public at reasonable prices. I would be happy to be proved wrong and if so would buy a lot from him but at the moment the hairs on the back of my neck are standing on end.
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For the SPECTRE book in concern I can speak to the provenance of it. Less than 10 of these were made for select crew members responsible for the overall visual vibe of SPECTRE.
still, I'd advise everyone to be very careful with what they buy SPECTRE-wise
To be honest, Meg would not have been storing these as she would have the original drawings and concepts, everything that has been listed on ebay, back in my day, would have been written off and put in a skip, these skips are processed by a 3rd party and destroyed, or should have been.
Never the less they are classed as stolen.
That is exactly what's happened. I spoke to the concept artist yesterday and he confirmed that the seller was ripping off and copying his work directly from his website/book and selling it as original. He also confirmed that the other items he is selling is fake, especially the cast/crew & production stuff.
Which seller? Seems to be a few in here. How is he getting SPECTRE work from the concept artist's website?
Been wearing for weeks, is Fake too.
So result there !!!!
Seriously a big thanks to Asp9mm for letting us all know about this. {[]
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
There isn't just SPECTRE work out there.
Are they green and body hugging
Well, not again, anyway.
Did he sell you his used mankini? I know his missus banned him from wearing it again after the last 'incident'