"A German art dealer has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a Stuttgart court for selling fake Alberto Giacometti sculptures worth millions of euros.
The 62-year-old from Mainz was the mastermind behind a group of counterfeiters who swindled collectors out of some ?9 million (SFr11.8 million).
Mainz was the location of a secret workshop of around 1,000 Giacometti-style sculptures, which was discovered in August 2009. Many items had already been sold to collectors with falsified certificates of authenticity."
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Prison_term_for_selling_fake_Giacomettis.html?cid=29930252
Sound familiar?
Can Modernesia's eBay shenanigans be comparable?
http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th...
The problem with eBay is...
The problem with eBay is they don't do anything themselves about fraud, they just say buyer beware and thus effectively put a wall between fraudsters and the law.
Speaking of art, I'm expecting the Norval Morrisseau fakes and forgeries issue in Canada will put some people in jail. Some of it has been on eBay but much of it has been out in the open.
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