| Les Roberts |
| Les Roberts Max on the Grove Company took $6000 and Refuses to Return It. Miss leading inventory Mr. Roberts has disappeared Miami, Florida |
| 15th of Jun, 2011 by User275917 |
| On or about April 22nd I bank wired a good faith deposit of $6000 for the potential purchase of 2 Peter Max original canvases from Les Roberts from Max on the Grove / www.themaxspace.com in Miami Florida. The purchase was subsequently cancelled due to an urgent medical issue and I requested a refund of my deposit. Mr. Roberts claimed a 48hr refund policy, However this was never disclosed or provided on the invoice and no such reference to this was made either verbally or in writing. Mr. Roberts communicated both verbally and in writing that he would return the funds. To assist him in what appeared to be his being in a tight financial situation we agreed to 3 installments. It was a very involved process of Mr. Roberts saying he did not fill out the bank wire document properly, he said he thought it had already been done and numerous other conflicts of statements for us to finally receive the first payment of $1500. After Numerous phone calls, texts and emails confirming the balance of $4500 was wired back to us and again after numerous calls, emails and texts this time no money was sent. Now Mr. Roberts has vanished, I am not sure that the Max on the Grove Gallery it a stable business and who really are the principles. We were introduce by a gentlman claiming to be a partner, now he is disavowing the relationship. It is now going on three weeks with no communications and no return of our money. I have my attorney starting the legal process. Mr Roberts has not responded to an attorney's request either. We have provided Mr. Roberts every opportunity to return the funds he owes and now he has stopped all communications. We understand extenuating circumstance and unforseen events, we have experianced our own set of uniques events and were willing to work with Mr. Roberts. However, we have now gone passed any reasonable interest in working with Mr. Roberts. He has taken our money, we received nothing for it, we asked for the return of funds, we were willing to work with him and now he has disappeared. He has now compelled us to take action and pursue all remidies available to see a satisfactory result to recoup the funds owed in addition to, losses and damages. We will pursue this to completion. |
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Fakes and Forgeries at cruise auctions?
While all anonymous complaints about cruise ship art auctions are completely unverifiable, this newspaper article titled "The Art of Piracy" in the Broward Palm Beach New Times notes that some cruise ship art auction fraud has been well-documented:
“Mitchell couldn't believe so many forged copies of her work had been sold. "I certainly didn't sign 1, 100 prints, " she says.
She sued both Eubanks and Princess in January, eventually attracting the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had also begun looking into Eubanks after being contacted by one of Eubanks' former employees.
In September, the FBI made its investigation into Eubanks' dealings public and called on victims to come forward. Mitchell says she's the FBI's star witness.”
“My name is Jordan Hillin and I went on the Carnival Pride about a month ago. From the sound of it we made a bad mistake on going to that art auction. Is all this true about Park West screwing people and if so what should I do with the art that I purchased? I bought a Peter Max that I was told appraised at 4, 700 and I just saw the same one on E-bay for $1, 000 . . .”
January 2009 - by museum-security.org indicates a lawsuit against Park West and Royal Caribbean alleging fraud and misrepresentation:
"Over the last few months, numerous people have contacted our firm with the same complaint: they purchased artwork from the Defendants who misrepresented the authenticity and/or value of the pieces they purchased.
Our clients believed they were buying an investment, when what they received was virtually worthless."
The following links are a few of the HUNDREDS of galleries who are selling the same ORIGINAL art. were talking about tens of thousands of originals! painted within just a few years plus hundreds of thousands of limited edition signed prints of those supposed originals. The math is as follows:
Over 4 years from 2009 to 2012, Peter Max would have to paint 7 originals per day and have to hand sign 68 prints per day to make up for the art that is available currently. If each painting takes an hour, thats 7 hours every day to paint those originals. And each signed print takes 10 seconds, thats another hour per day.
BUT here is where it gets tricky! Peter Max tours and travels 30 weeks per year! and he does not paint on jet planes of hotels SO the figures are as follows with the removal of those 30 weeks and lets not forget HE Does need to sleep and eat.
52 weeks - 30 weeks touring and traveling to his galleries, he would now have to paint 113 originals per day and even if it took him 15 minutes to paint an original it would take him 28 hours per day to do it BUT there are only 24 hours per day and he has to sleep and eat. And to sign all those prints would take another 4 hours per day.
This is proof that Peter Max art is being painted by someone other then him. I herd there is a cell phone image of people (not MAX) in his studio actually painting some of his current works and signing them. I am currently attempting to retrieve this image.
http://www.buycheapr.com/us/result.jsp?ga=us11&q=peter+max+original+art
http://www.qart.com/category.aspx?items=20&pg=1&srt=1&srch=peter-max&artistname=
http://www.jwatsonfineart.com/max/originals.html
http://www.greglanefineart.com/searchresults.php?artistId=1034&gclid=CPmprO_A0q8CFYISNAodPQoLhA
http://www.artbrokerage.com/artist/Peter-Max/view/thumbnail/
http://www.originalartbroker.com/peter-max-art-original-canvas-mixed-media.html |
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