posted on September 16, 2006 01:02:16 PM new
So, I just went to check out express.ebay to see what the site was all about. I noticed a Barcelona Chair on the home page so I decided to do a simple search, and entered "Barcelona Chair". What I find is nothing but cheap knock offs from the original Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair. To make matters worse, the description title uses these words, "Mies Barcelona Style Leather Chair". Real Barcelona's are manufacturered by Knoll International and are marked and signed.
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but if I was selling a cheap immitation on regular ebay, I wouldn't be able to use the words Mies, Barcelona, or the word "style" in the title because these cheap knock offs are not really designed by Mies van der Rohe and are not real "Barcelona Chairs".
I know this is just one example, and there are tons of others, but you would think...
