About 6 or 7 years ago Juliens auctions was offering an Elvis Presley concert poster. The 14 x 22 inch poster was promoting Elvis live in concert in  Buffalo New York on January 21st, 1956. It had an auction estimate of ten to fifteen thousand dollars !!

Now I don't certainly  don't have enough money and I probably don't have enough brains to run a major multi-million dollar auction house but I do know a bootleg Elvis concert poster when I see it. And just to make sure I did my research. Elvis was not in Buffalo on that date, instead  he was appearing on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport Louisiana. That was confirmed in the excellent Elvis publication "Elvis:Day By Day".  And the very same poster pictured in the Juliens'  catalogue was  being sold on Ebay at the same time....about a half-dozen of them for 5 -- 10 bucks each. So  I'm good to go...I've got the goods...

I email Juliens and suggest that their 10-15 thousand dollar item is not what they purport it to be. I receive a prompt reply from Darren J. himself. He tells me that he's convinced the item is real. He tells me that he has inspected the poster himself and that it "looks old". He was convinced and was trying to convince me that I was wrong-wrong-wrong.

When I told him about the information I had that proved HE was wrong he checked it out and removed the item from his auction. Now how did he thank me you are wondering?? He offered me some old auction catolouges and the opportunity to receive free catalouges to his future auctions. I declined.