TomBuchanan
New Member
Hi Guys,
just wanted to share some of my experience with Premiere Props. I do know there is a couple of threads on here about it, but I actually went ahead and was part of their auctions to get a feel for thei product etc. First off, the sheer amount of articles made me wonder. Yes productions make a hek of a lot of things for their product, if anything breaks etc. But to be able to have 3 or 4 auctions with the same articles almost impossible.
I have been part of many succesful auctions with the Prop Store and other collectible sellers, so this wasn't my first rodeo. I just wanted to go for something small to see what would come out of it. Well, I am a boxing fan, loved the movie Southpaw, so I thought, let's go for that. I auctioned a lot of a couple of documents and a little promotional poster. All in all about 20 bucs. Again, just trying this out.
What ensued was pretty funny. The auction was around November, I did not get the items until the beginning of last month (May) It took them almost a year to ship this stuff ! A lot of the other threads talked about this as well, horrible shipping. Not shipping items while they put out a lot of other auctions and finishing those is probably not a good idea.
Of more concern is the fact that I do believe that this stuff is fake. The COA said production used, which can mean anything from this was stored in a container just to have or it was actually seen on screen. I think this was printed with a good printer and some references from the movie. ANybody could have made those items with not too much effort and 5 of these sets ended up in Auction. Printing a COA et voila, here ya go, movie props. The large scale operation and they way they operate just seems troublesome to the hobby and I wanted to post about it.
I contacted iCollectibles, which is the site they use to facilitate their auctions and they said they don't genereally check authenticity because it's outside of their responsibility but said they did get a lot of calls from buyers about not shipping items and items not being up to par.
Anyways just wanted to share this experience and post some pictures of the items.
just wanted to share some of my experience with Premiere Props. I do know there is a couple of threads on here about it, but I actually went ahead and was part of their auctions to get a feel for thei product etc. First off, the sheer amount of articles made me wonder. Yes productions make a hek of a lot of things for their product, if anything breaks etc. But to be able to have 3 or 4 auctions with the same articles almost impossible.
I have been part of many succesful auctions with the Prop Store and other collectible sellers, so this wasn't my first rodeo. I just wanted to go for something small to see what would come out of it. Well, I am a boxing fan, loved the movie Southpaw, so I thought, let's go for that. I auctioned a lot of a couple of documents and a little promotional poster. All in all about 20 bucs. Again, just trying this out.
What ensued was pretty funny. The auction was around November, I did not get the items until the beginning of last month (May) It took them almost a year to ship this stuff ! A lot of the other threads talked about this as well, horrible shipping. Not shipping items while they put out a lot of other auctions and finishing those is probably not a good idea.
Of more concern is the fact that I do believe that this stuff is fake. The COA said production used, which can mean anything from this was stored in a container just to have or it was actually seen on screen. I think this was printed with a good printer and some references from the movie. ANybody could have made those items with not too much effort and 5 of these sets ended up in Auction. Printing a COA et voila, here ya go, movie props. The large scale operation and they way they operate just seems troublesome to the hobby and I wanted to post about it.
I contacted iCollectibles, which is the site they use to facilitate their auctions and they said they don't genereally check authenticity because it's outside of their responsibility but said they did get a lot of calls from buyers about not shipping items and items not being up to par.
Anyways just wanted to share this experience and post some pictures of the items.