What can I do?
Barry,
I totally agree with you that this is not a good thing happening in our hobby.
It is pretty sad. But I guess it has been going on for years. When I was a kid I used to get reprints of the classic cards in my elementary book orders that were reprints. Some company was making money of those images then.
The only difference here I guess, is that this is a one-of-a-kind which can be easily seen through the flaws on the card, not just a generic image of a classic card.
But really, what can I do about it? Yes it is my card, but the image is out there in cyberspace and on places like REAs site. I own the card, but do I own the image? Does anyone know what really can be done, if anything?
At least he said it was a reprint. Some Richard Cranium with the ID bigbadgodofwar1 on iOFFER was trying to sell a reprint of my card for $15,000. Of course after I confronted him with an email he put out there in cyberspace that I was threatening him and that I needed to back off, even though I never saw the card again on iOffer.
Tim Kindler
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