The only people that bother me more than those that sell this stuff are the ones who buy it. I see he is selling a legitimate "S" experimental note. If I were in the market for such a thing, I would avoid this guy because of the garbage he sells -- even though the note is genuine. I just don't want to do business with someone who engages in activity destructive to the hobby.
Frankly IMHO he dumbs down the allegedly authentic materiel with stuff that is pure deceptive fantasy.
I don't have that big of a problem with this. He admits that it isn't original and is a note that has been altered. It's stupid, and if someone buys it thinking it will ever be worth anything...than they are a fool. But, nothing here is illegal or dishonest. I think it shows that this dealer is a little "low brow" but he truly has done nothing wrong.
What's amazing is someone paid $10 for it...apparently they don't know what "faux" means. We should all fire up our color copiers and make a bundle! :thumb: ...j/k.
nothing wrong in legal terms, but as mentioned, i dont think it helps, but rather hurts, the hobby. Yes, he mentions its not a real error, but that wont stop someone from buying it hoping it is (how many actually read the description?), and then when they try to resell it for thousands of dollars years from now, do you think he will stay with the hobby, or promote the hobby to YN's?
These same notes were the subject of discussion on the Collectors Universe DB. One of the posters there pointed out the problem these present for dealers. The current buyer sells it to someone who believes it to be genuine. That person (or their heirs) take it to the dealer who tells them its fake. More often than not the owner gets mad at the dealer. Although I am not a dealer, I have seen this happen in coin shops involving copies of US colonial coins. It also happened with the MPC copies made by Carlson Chambliss which were sold to one poor soul as specimen notes. None of this helps the hobby.
This seller is slithering with the usage of "faux" in the description, which I will opin that most people do not properly understand that it is a fancy French word for fake.
