Fake Joy Division Flyer goes for a grand on ebay!

Not sure if anyone else has seen this but I was watching a Joy Division flyer on ebay last week that was a blatant fake.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150613663130

It is supposed to be from the Preston Warehouse gig in 1980, but it was created using an 3D image that was designed by an artist and posted on Flickr in 2009!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artmilos/3497241547/in/set-72157617557708537/

It also used the standard Arial fontset – which wasn’t designed until at least 1982! You only have to look at it to know that there is no way on God’s earth that it is an original design from 1980.

I messaged the seller to let him know it was a fake and was met with a torrent of abuse and horrible personal (and sexual!) insults.

This morning it ended at £1,021. Someone has been badly ripped off.

Brilliant - a grand spent on a bootleg poster...

I thought we're supposed to be in a recession? :p

Why didn't you tell eBay it was fraudulent?

I did report it to ebay, a good 5 days or so before it ended but they obviously weren’t interested in closing it down. I suppose they don’t want to get involved in proving/disproving authenticity of things like this. And they will make £100 in fees out of it so that’s probably all they care about.

I can confirm that the winning bid was also bogus .....it was a member of Joy Division Central ....... the seller was very abusive and basically got what he deserved for the flyer .....nothing !

good.. i also emailed ebay day b4 it finished & they did fcuk all. Godd to see the JD central lads sticking together. Out else dodgy & im all in for a 'winning' bid. Feel sad that the twat has a tag clashcityrckers... Joe Strummer would turn in his grave. One cock defo worth a good kicking :evil:

Have written a few messages now saying that the flyer is not a fake, loads of people , myself included in Preston have this flyer.

What the guy is asking is does he have the second flyer. Which is even rarer than the one he is selling. Nearly everyone I know in Preston has or did have that flyer 34 or whatever years ago.

The second flyer is just a negative copy of the original flyer, the one being sold. But believe the designer might have only made the one flyer for himself. He would have have loved the fact that he was so advanced in design that he has fooled you all.

But there is one certain easy way to find out if the flyer is genuine or not. On the back of the flyer are four lines from a Joy Division song.

I won't reveal what they are until it has been proved if the flyer just sold is genuine or not.

Just tell the buyer to check the back if there are four lines of Joy Division lyrics on it, then it is genuine.

From the photograph on ebay it looks completely genuine to me, as it is exactly the same as mine and about a 100 of my friends here in Preston.

Love, Beth.

Beth Brean wrote: Have written a few messages now saying that the flyer is not a fake, loads of people , myself included in Preston have this flyer.

bollocks *cough*

Burt Burterson wrote:

Beth Brean wrote: Have written a few messages now saying that the flyer is not a fake, loads of people , myself included in Preston have this flyer.

bollocks *cough*

Quite - if 100 people had a copy of the flyer, we would have seen more on ebay...

The biggest load of twaddle I've heard for a long time!

Arial Black I believe the font is.

Which didn't appear on most peoples computers until the late 80s/early 90s.

The bottom left of the corner of the flyer - the text is not aligned properly.

The text is pixelated - pixels weren't really used at the time of Joy Division to create flyers, it was print and traditional graphics. Microsoft Paint is king of pixelating text in images.

Do I have to continue....

Ok one more for luck..

The "picture" on the auction is too high a quality to be a scan. It is probably just the computer file uploaded a few minutes after it was put together in Paint or something.

Beth Brean wrote: What the guy is asking is does he have the second flyer. Which is even rarer than the one he is selling. Nearly everyone I know in Preston has or did have that flyer 34 or whatever years ago.

The second flyer is just a negative copy of the original flyer, the one being sold. But believe the designer might have only made the one flyer for himself. He would have have loved the fact that he was so advanced in design that he has fooled you all.

But there is one certain easy way to find out if the flyer is genuine or not. On the back of the flyer are four lines from a Joy Division song.

I won't reveal what they are until it has been proved if the flyer just sold is genuine or not.

Just tell the buyer to check the back if there are four lines of Joy Division lyrics on it, then it is genuine.

From the photograph on ebay it looks completely genuine to me, as it is exactly the same as mine and about a 100 of my friends here in Preston.

Love, Beth.

ok Beth... having read Al's link, and the comment from the creator of said image that it was created in 2009, and was probably beyond the technology of 1980, you still stand by this?

I reckon it's now time for you to put up a scanned image of your flyer from 1980 (keeping the lyrics on the back secret) and show us all what it really looks like.

PS. I don't know why I am always sceptical of 'first time posters' in here, who mysteriously only post something when there is money involved, which amusingly the seller will never receive. You don't perchance happen to know the seller at all?

Beth Brean wrote: From the photograph on ebay it looks completely genuine to me, as it is exactly the same as mine and about a 100 of my friends here in Preston.

Beth Brean wrote: What the guy is asking is does he have the second flyer. Which is even rarer than the one he is selling. Nearly everyone I know in Preston has or did have that flyer 34 or whatever years ago.

The second flyer is just a negative copy of the original flyer, the one being sold. But believe the designer might have only made the one flyer for himself. He would have have loved the fact that he was so advanced in design that he has fooled you all.

But there is one certain easy way to find out if the flyer is genuine or not. On the back of the flyer are four lines from a Joy Division song.

I won't reveal what they are until it has been proved if the flyer just sold is genuine or not.

Just tell the buyer to check the back if there are four lines of Joy Division lyrics on it, then it is genuine.

From the photograph on ebay it looks completely genuine to me, as it is exactly the same as mine and about a 100 of my friends here in Preston.

Love, Beth.

Yeah, thanks for that clarification 'Beth' (from Weston Super Mare). Brilliant! Keep it coming.

Beth Brean wrote:

Just tell the buyer to check the back if there are four lines of Joy Division lyrics on it, then it is genuine.

or he's got a double sided photocopier

lol she's from Weston Super Mare? that's a bloody long way from the 100 odd Preston mates who have it, but strangely the home town of the seller.

Now I'm no Poirot, but....

Faaaaaaaaaaaaake!

mAY I JUST remind YOU all that PRESTOn is a MERE few miles from CHORLEY. Glad to CLARIFY... ROCKET the FAKE Mick :D

I own one with WORKING IN A GOLDMINE written on it!

Rocket Mick wrote: ROCKET the FAKE Mick :D

How do we know you're not a FAKE ROCKET the FAKE Mick? Two fakes make a genuine?

Snorri xxx

Just because i have a job doesn't prove i'm FAKE. Record Breaker or record MAKER?

Oh...it's real alright....

Here's some 'real' money for it....

I'll give you my weeks wage for one.....HANG ON!

Fake or real, who gives a shit...?! I pity the sod who purchased it. Anyone willing to spend that amount of cash on a piece of paper deserves a good slap.

The Paradise Man wrote: Fake or real, who gives a shit...?! I pity the sod who purchased it. Anyone willing to spend that amount of cash on a piece of paper deserves a good slap.

Think it was a SPOOF purchase ..that is they DIDn't BUY it...see JOY DIVISION CENTRAL for details!