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Topic: Ebay IDIOT ALERT!
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 05-16-2001 12:31 AM
Paging Mr. Valenti...Heres a great Ebay deal in stolen property:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1431366437
Claims the print is quad-track with DTS disks, even! Did they make any quad-track prints of CTHD? *ALL* of the CTHD prints I have handled were SRD only ones...
How and more curiously WHY does this guy have a print of this movie? ALL of the sellers' other auctions are for GOLF BALLS... Things that make you go 'Hmmm'... Aaron
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Joe Schmidt
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 172
From: Billings, Montana, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 05-16-2001 02:08 AM
About 1980 I was offered $10,000 CASH for one of my prints. Cannot disclose the title but it was a blockbuster. It would have gone straight to the phillipines.Naturally I declined, saying I was not in the business of bootleg exhibition. In another incident, when all the prints of The Godfather had been run off and were sitting in the warehouse awaiting shipment to theatres, 12 were stolen. The producer was extremely upset, as one might well imagine, this was passed on to me later. I was contacted by a somewhat sleazy and flaky individual who offered me one of these prints for $2,000. I declined, again saying I would have no involvements with bootleg exhibition.
All this is a no-no. Acquiring a used print salvaged from the dump once the theatrical engagements are over, to be part of a private collection and only shown privately is another matter entirely, and that's OK.
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John Wilson
Film God
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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-16-2001 04:26 AM
What's even more incredible is that this is still up on eBay!Run Joe...Run! PS SRD only here in Oz also. ------------------
Children really brighten up your life...they never turn off lights.
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-17-2001 02:08 AM
Ok, now that the page is gone, can someone tell me what "CTHD" stands for?I hate it whem people abbreviate the names of movies like that. Is it that hard to just write it out? I mean if I mention "MR" does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-17-2001 02:21 AM
Gordon and Brad you are both wrong.It'll be fun to see how long it takes someone to figure this out. I'll give you a hint. 1996.
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! I was relieved to see it gone, but I really wanted to see just how much someone would pay for it. AND if the buyer has all the equipment to run it.
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