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Author:	Ken Walton	Publisher:	Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN-10:	1416907114	Subject:	Art & Photography
ISBN-13:	9781416907114	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	--
Publication Year:	2006	Condition:	Good
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It was the golden age of eBay. Optimistic bidders went online to the world's largest flea market, ready to spend cash on everything from garden gnomes to Mercedes convertibles. Among them were art collectors willing to spend big money on unseen paintings, hoping to buy valuable pieces of art at below-market prices. EBay also attracted the occasional con artist unable to resist the temptation of abusing a system that prided itself on being "based on trust." Walton--once a lawyer bound by the ethics of his profession--was seduced by just such a con artist and, eventually, became one himself. What started out as a satisfying exercise in reselling thrift store paintings in order to pay back student loans and mounting credit card debt soon became an addiction to the subtle deception of luring unsuspecting bidders into overpaying for paintings of questionable origins.--From publisher description. The wildly successful online auction site eBay.com is a fantastic success story, and the company is now a part of mainstream American culture. In FAKE, former lawyer Kenneth Walton relates how he took advantage of the site and its customers, offering cheap paintings with forged signatures, whose prices he inflated by manipulating the bid process to his advantage--until he was discovered and caught. Walton paid a price for his crimes, and in this memoir he comes out as chastened, if not quite redeemed--though he seems to place a good amount of blame on what he sees as eBay's failure to police every posting on its site.
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Length:	296 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	12.8 oz.

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A behind-the-scenes account of an art scam through which con artists used eBay's then-unpoliced auction system to manipulate bidders out of large quantities of money traces the author's transformation from an art trader to an Internet fraudster, shares the stories of high-profile scammers and victims, and describes how their activities changed eBay policies.

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Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay

Kenneth Walton

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	1416907114
Publication Date:	2006-04-25
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Pages:	304
Height:	1.2000 inches
Width:	5.6000 inches
Weight:	0.8500 pounds

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