Would it be legal to sell a piece of spray painted concrete on ebay and pretend that its Berlin Wall?

Question

Would it be legal to sell a piece of spray painted concrete on ebay and pretend that its Berlin Wall?

Answer 1

I cant believe this question and some of these answers. Who raised you? IT'S FRAUD, ITS ILLEGAL, ITS DISHONEST, ITS STUPID, ITS FINES$, ITS PRISON TIME, I have heard before that the criminal mind is the most intelligent, but clearly not in this case!!

Answer 2

Hey I think my mom bought one of those was that you?

Answer 3

You can pretend it's anything you want.  You just can't put that in your listing when you sell it.

Answer 4

So you want to take a piece of concrete, spray some paint on it and represent it as a piece of the Berlin Wall.  All that is fine.  You can have it on your coffee table and tell your friends it is a piece of the wall.  As long as you don't try to make any money from it.  You can't charge to let someone see it, you can't sell it or anything else along those line.  If  you offer it on Ebay as a piece of the wall it is called fraud.  It is a felony.  If you sell it to someone outside your own state it becomes a Federal crime.  If you ship the piece through the US Mail it becomes mail fraud.  Roll it all up into a ball and what you are considering should be worth 10 to 15 years in a Federal Prison as a minimum.  There may also be some stiff fines.  Federal fines usually start around $10,000.

Ebay banning you for life is really the smallest thing that could possibly happen to you.

Answer 5

Yes, it would be legal.

Its just dishonest.

Also, eBay might get angry and ban you.

Answer 6

OMG - go for it!  I'd buy it - could sit next to my pieces of the "MOON" I purchased from a reputable dealer, the real "DIAMONDS" from Herkimer Diamond Mines, the "INDIAN HEAD PENNIES" found in my yard (even though there were no pennies around when the "Indians" were), and the "SIGNED" copy of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah Album!  Heck yea - sell it - some idiot would buy it!  

Answer 7

No. It would be fraud. E-Bay and law-abiding people tend to frown on that sort of thing.