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by: lisa wray

Greedy Dogs Are Never Satisfied:

All in a Day's Work for Park West Gallery and the Cruise Lines

by Fine Art Registry®


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"Most confidence games are built on human frailties. When people learn - as I doubt they ever will - that they can't get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in greater harmony." -Yellow Kid Weil

Shamefully, Park West Gallery takes full and complete advantage of human frailties. There can be no question about this. We have a parade of victims and many sad stories and the evidence to prove it. Ask victims Sharon Day, Julian Howard, Mike and Maria Vallillo, Martha Szostak, Al and Vivian Best, Debi Austin, Heidi Rice, and Cheryl Crist who are currently suing Park West Gallery, as well as scores of other victims that Fine Art Registry has interviewed, and they will all tell you how they have suffered enormously at the hands of Park West Gallery and its CEO Albert Scaglione, and continue to suffer.

In this article we will focus on the age old basics of the "confidence game" or "snake oil sales" and compare examples of swindles of the late 19th and 20th centuries with Park West Gallery's current deceptive and unfair trade practices. It's not hard to see how Park West Gallery and its principals have managed to parlay deceit and double cross - filthy and disgusting business practices disguised as an "art gallery" - into a reported $300 million dollar a year money printing empire.

Is it so impossible for Park West Gallery and the cruise lines to do an honest business for an honest profit? Park West Gallery has been operating using the same deceptive principles for so long now that it is unlikely that the leopard will ever change its spots.

Over nearly three years of investigation, we have highlighted quite a historical record of severe and consistent abuses by Park West Gallery. Many of these abuses go unnoticed because quite frankly most don’t know what they don't know. In concert with the cruise lines, Park West Gallery uses all sorts of people and entities in order to maintain its insatiable appetite for greed. The victims include, but are not necessarily limited to: Park West Gallery buyers, Park West Gallery artists, Park West Gallery vendors, and Park West Gallery business partners, including, surprisingly enough, the very cruise lines with which they contract to share in the proceeds of its dirty profits.

Though it's true that the cruise lines are willing and enthusiastic conspirators with Park West Gallery, it is also important to note that they too are unwitting victims of their own devices—like greedy dogs, they are never satisfied. Park West Gallery is eager to bite the hand that feeds it and as a result the cruise lines are no doubt cheated out of substantial percentages of profits when it comes to residual sales made by Park West Gallery.

Consider that Park West Gallery absolutely relies on the cruise line passenger lists like a drug addict on heroine to market its land-based "VIP events" post cruise - it is at these events where Park West practices perhaps even more aggressive sales techniques than usual. Frankly, when contemplated, there is really no other way that Park West Gallery would have access to the sheer numbers of potential "marks" if not for the cruise lines' passenger lists (after all, who shops for art in Southfield, Michigan?). Therefore, the cruise passenger lists are at the very heart of the Park West Gallery business model - indeed they are a vital component in and the lifeblood of the Park West Gallery sales scam.

The lists of passengers are the common thread throughout every single sale made by Park West Gallery. If Park West did not have access to cruise passenger lists, they would have no customer base on which to perpetuate the con. Absent cruise passenger lists, Park West Gallery would be left on its own to mine a new customer base and where in the world would they locate a mine so rich and so economically diverse? - certainly not in Southfield, Michigan. And remember - Park West Gallery does NOT ADVERTISE its VIP events on land to the general public. There is a reason for this. They don't want to call too much attention to these events. Yes, undeniably, Park West Gallery must at all times refresh and renew its cruise line passenger customer base with evergreen (novice) cruise ship passengers, provided courtesy of the cruise ship industry. But in exchange for the passenger lists that Park West Gallery is provided, the cruise lines expect their cut from residual sales made by Park West Gallery, just as the cruise lines expect a percentage from businesses with whom they contract for shore excursions that cruise passengers frequent. It has been reported to Fine Art Registry® by reliable sources that although Park West is contractually obligated to pay the cruise lines a percentage of Park West land based VIP sales, they rarely, if ever, have done so. Fine Art Registry is in possession of the Park West Gallery VIP list of customers and their contact information - tens of thousands of names from all over the world. It is clear that Park West Gallery regularly markets to these individuals using the U.S. Mail, and email - all of them former cruise passengers.

Park West Gallery is ruthless in its practices when it comes to anyone or anything that may criticize their business practices and for a time, this worked for them beautifully. Albert Scaglione, in his capacity as CEO of what he claims publicly far and wide as the "world's largest private art gallery", is a master at using (or is it abusing) the court system as his executioner - to try to intimidate and terrorize victims as well as artists that will not bend to his will. To this day he and his gallery thugs (which include his lawyers) still threaten victims by making them sign gag agreements when a refund on artwork is made. And while Park West Gallery and the cruise lines continue to carry on with business as usual, the economic carnage and collateral damage continues to mount into the millions and millions of dollars. However, as time progresses, more and more people are becoming wise to their deception and victims and business entities are coming forward with their horror stories of the mafia-like tactics used by Park West Gallery and its CEO, so much so that Fine Art Registry and The Fine Art Advocacy Foundation™ is having a hard time keeping up with the overwhelming information we have received - all of it damning for the self-proclaimed "largest art gallery" in the universe.

We are eager to bring to our readership and members some of the more shocking stories that were recently reported to us. All of them are true firsthand accounts, but for now, the task at hand.


Park West Gallery's Basic Training - Wicked and Arrant Schemes to Fleece the Unsuspecting Public

Yellow Kid Weil – Con Man – A Master Swindler's Own Story About a Life of Crime

The "confidence game" is as old as the hills and has been successfully used by criminals to bilk scores and scores of victims for well over a century or more. Park West Gallery and the sales tactics it uses aboard cruise ships and at its so-called "VIP" sales events hosted on land (and at sea) are quite simply nothing more than the age old tricks or schemes all wrapped up in a glitzy, pseudo sophisticated package called an "art auctioneer" or now the new derivative "Art Director" and put into 21st century practice at sea and on land. The picture of the Park West Gallery con is dramatically portrayed in a little known book published over sixty years ago, in 1948, titled, Yellow Kid Weil – Con Man – A Master Swindler's Own Story About a Life of Crime. It is the true life story of a colorful little criminal called, Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, and how he plied the tricks of the chicanery trade on unsuspecting victims. Though the book is quite dated, the content is nevertheless more relevant today than it ever was.

The "confidence game" and how it works (especially as it relates to Park West Gallery) is clearly portrayed in this gem of a publication. Yellow Kid through his first person account, paints a vivid picture of how clever and cunning the con game can be and how it works. The excerpts below are extraordinarily instructive as they relate to the unregulated art market of the 21st century, and we would all do well to heed these historical con game accounts and apply them to every situation we find ourselves in where someone or something (like Park West Gallery and its trained ringers) desires to separate us from our hard earned dollars - whether it is as obvious as a kid in a suit working for Park West Gallery or the insidious cruise line brand that promotes him.

The following examples most certainly parallel how Park West Gallery and its rogues and sharks, chisel unsuspecting victims today (whether they are selling artwork or jewelry or any other thing that is pitched as having "value" and using worthless appraisals to support such values) while vacationing aboard luxury cruise ships, and how Park West Gallery continues to feed off its victims long after the cruise is done.

While "Yellow Kid Weil" (so dubbed in 1903) operated for 50 years during the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century, little has changed in the way the confidence game is played. What follows are a few of Yellow Kid's cons that illustrate well the tricks of the confidence game trade and the fundamentals behind how Park West Gallery does business—monkey business that is.


Meriwether's Elixir—Snake Oil Sales – Park West Gallery Style

The year was 1899 and “Yellow Kid” was about 24 years of age—

Frock coat

"Doc Meriwether was one of the most picturesque characters in the Middle West. He was tall, broad-shouldered and gaunt. He wore a Van Dyke beard and pince-nez glasses. He usually dressed in black - black trousers and black frock coat with extra long tails. He wore a flowing black cravat that covered half his shirt front.

On the far west side of Chicago, Doc Meriwether had a 'plant' where he manufactured 'Meriwether's Elixir,' - good for the ills of man or beast. Doc particularly urged it as a sure cure for tapeworm.

Meriwether's Elixir was put up in tall, thirty-two-ounce bottles. It was a dark liquid with a pleasant taste - Doc saw to that by putting in a little of the right flavoring. He left most of the bottling and manufacturing to his wife, a buxom, pleasant-faced industrious woman. The Doc felt that he had done his share of the work when he made up the formula.

I don't remember the exact recipe now. But the chief ingredient was rainwater, caught and strained in the big cisterns in the back yard of Doc's combined home and factory. This was drained off a barrel at a time, and into it Mrs. Meriwether mixed the other ingredients. One of these was cascara [a laxative], just the right amount in each thirty-two-ounce bottle to get results—plus alcohol. It was an evil-looking concoction, but pleasant enough to take, thanks to the alcohol and flavoring which Doc had thoughtfully included.

I cannot truthfully say whether anyone who took the Elixir ever got rid of a tapeworm or not. But many thought they did, for the cascara [the laxative] worked on everybody. As a matter of fact, I doubt if very many people had tapeworm, though nearly all imagined they did.

For in that period we had a tapeworm fad. Everybody who was undernourished, anemic or suffered from some form of malnutrition was firmly convinced that a parasitic tapeworm was eating away his substance. Consequently, Doc Meriwether's Elixir was a pushover at a dollar a bottle.

Meriwether's Elixir was not on sale at drugstores, though a few grocers and general merchants carried it. Most of it was sold by Doc himself, during the summer months when he toured the bucolic [of or relating to the pleasant aspects of country life] areas. Farmers and residents of the smaller towns were easily convinced that they harbored the tapeworm.

[Sound familiar? Like Doc Meriwether's Elixir, most all of the Park West Gallery inventory is sold EXCLUSIVELY by Park West Gallery - especially the Dali print inventory they peddle. With strict and limited distribution channels, Park West Gallery can price fix and can also control being "found out" and reduce the risk of their "deceptive practices" being discovered.]

The Doc had a medicine show which appealed to men. In addition to Indians, he had a couple of girl dancers. He made it a point to park his big wagon at a spot where the males congregated. It was a man's world - in those days. Any crowd in a public place was likely to consist largely of men.

I acted in various capacities, depending on the locality. In some instances, I was a barker and helped to attract a crowd. At other times, I remained in the background and was the 'shill', posing as a customer from another community.

[Are you starting to see the parallel and similarities to the Park West Gallery set up and business practices yet? Yellow Kid and Doc Meriwether preyed on novices – unsophisticated country folks who were easily swayed and trusted in Doc Meriwether and Yellow Kid's false representations. Park West Gallery does the same thing by preying on the novice or those who have never purchased art before or those that have never attended an art auction in their lives. In other words, preying on those that don't know what they don't know. It is a fact that Park West Gallery uses shills. Fine Art Registry has heard from multiple victims that have told us various schemes Park West has used during the auction event and after in private meetings with victims.]

As soon as Doc had entertained the crowd a while, he would go into his spiel. 'Some of you men are healthy,' he would say. 'I can tell that by looking at you. But there are many of you who are not. Why? I think I would be quite safe in saying that a tapeworm is eating your life away. A sallow complexion, hollow cheeks, lean faces, wrinkled brows—these are all symptoms of the existence of a tapeworm.

'Are you men going to let a parasite eat away at your body, your very life? Or do you intend to do something about it?' Here, he put up a hand as somebody started to speak. 'I know what you're going to say. You've had the family doctor in. He's given you something for it, but it didn't work.'

'Well, I've got something that will work. It's absolutely guaranteed to get results. Meriwether's Elixir is the product of years of research. It has been found to be an absolute cure, through elimination, of the worst tapeworm that ever preyed on a man's life.'

He exhibited the bottle with the fancy label and the black liquid. If there was good response, Doc Meriwether kept up a constant, jovial flow of patter and took in the dollars. But if business was slow, that was my cue to step in.

'I'll take two bottles,' I would say.

'Two bottles, sir? But one bottle is enough to rid you of tapeworm.'

'It's not for me,' I would say. 'It's for my children.'

'Have you used this preparation before?'

'Indeed, I have, Doctor. In fact, I owe my life to it.'

'Would you mind telling us about it?'

'Well all right. A year ago, I was so run down and emaciated that I was not able to walk, let alone tend my farm. Doctors had done all they could for me, but my case had been given up as hopeless. The mortgage on my farm was nearly due. I thought that I would lose everything and that my poor wife and children would go hungry.' I would pause here to brush a sleeve across my eyes.

'Then I heard about Meriwether's Elixir. I bought a bottle of it. I didn't think it would do me much good, but everything was lost, anyhow. So I took it. Before I had finished the bottle, my tapeworm had been eliminated. I was able to walk again. I got my strength back. Soon I began to recover. I felt so much better I was able to do twice as much work. My crops were extra good. The mortgage was paid off. And I owe it all to Meriwether's Elixir. I'm going to give it to my two kids. I'd buy it, even if it was five dollars a bottle.'

'Sir,' would be Doc Meriwether's tremulous reply. 'You have stirred me deeply. You have made me feel that I have done something worthwhile for humanity. As a token of my regard, let me present you with two bottles—absolutely free.'

This bit of play-acting usually brought the crowd around. They almost pushed each other over in their rush to hand in their dollars for the wonderful mixture.

In addition to the bottles, Doc Meriwether offered a 'special' treatment at his suite for those who wanted to get rid of their tapeworms in a hurry and were willing to pay extra for it.

[Park West Gallery sales events also involve a post auction "private meeting" with the buyer. BEWARE OF ANY PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH PARK WEST GALLERY SALES REPS. Private meetings ARE NOT at all a standard practice at any legitimate art auction. Avoid them at all costs. This is where the Park West Gallery "special treatment" really begins and where serious regrets on the part of the victims usually have their source. Often shills are used to encourage victims to buy a more expensive artwork or to trade up from the "auction" items they purchased. Also, the Park West salesmen will try to hit you with ridiculous charges for framing and for worthless Park West Gallery Appraisals (see Litigation Update No. 8 for more on worthless Park West Gallery appraisals).

As an example there were two victims aboard a cruise ship with Park West Gallery huckster, Arthur Scheepers. This shyster may still be working for Park West Gallery, so beware! Park West in its desperation to peddle more art work has recently brought back some of its worst offenders when it comes to the con - such as Stoney Goldstein and others. Scheepers represented to the victims (who shall remain nameless for fear of retribution by Park West Gallery) and to others on board at the time that he was offering them a major investment opportunity. In a private meeting with the victims, the con, Scheepers, went so far as to represent that he could guarantee that the [Dali] pieces he was telling them to buy for $40,000 would increase in value to $200-250,000 within four years. He kept telling the victims, "Just give me four years" and encouraged the victims to stay in touch with him post sale and he [Scheepers] would tell them how much the Dali pieces were increasing in value. This was a bald-faced lie, of course, that could never in a million years be supported by Scheepers or Park West Gallery. (Our readers will recall in our last article (Litigation Update No. 8), where we discussed values and Park West Gallery's worthless appraisals and how Park West Gallery encourages victims to pay for updated Park West appraisals and to keep in contact with the auctioneers for reports on increased values of its artwork - much like an investor keeps in touch with a stockbroker for reports on the performance of securities or stocks, except that Park West Gallery does not sell "registered securities.") Additionally, there was a shill that was sent into this "private meeting" by the Park West Gallery auctioneer, Scheepers - another passenger was used for this purpose - another passenger that purportedly had purchased Dali inventory from Park West in the past. Needless to state, the victims were fleeced and when they realized they had been horribly deceived, it was too late. The couple ended up having to fight tooth and nail for a refund later, which after much anxiety and harassment by Park West Gallery; they were finally successful in getting, but only after threats of going public with their story. Fine Art Registry had tracked down the shill - the person that Park West Gallery used as Scheepers' accomplice to con the victims, and the shill was ready to sing like a bird in the form of a sworn affidavit which is now part of the evidence Fine Art Registry will use against Park West Gallery at the trial of this matter in March of this year.]

The success of the special treatment was mainly a matter of having the right stage setting and the props. The most important of the latter was a potato. This was peeled into one long coil which, for all I know, might look like a tapeworm. In an unbroken spiral it was deposited in a basin and water was poured over it. The basin was carefully hidden in a darkened room.

When the patient arrived, he was treated first in an outer room. Now the mixture was more potent: the chief ingredient was Epsom salts. The patient was allowed to recline on a couch while the medicine took effect. Then he was led into the darkened room.

[Park West Gallery always applies great pressure outside of the sales event. The actual "auction" or "sales event" on board ship or on land is supposed to be videotaped as required by many of the cruise lines now because of the sheer number of complaints about Park West Gallery's deceptive practices over the last decade. Fine Art Registry has no way of knowing whether the Park West Gallery auction events are being recorded as it is something that the cruise lines are not monitoring nor enforcing as we understand it. Isn't it interesting, however, that Park West Gallery NEVER, EVER videotapes the "private" auctioneer meetings with cruise passengers - NEVER, EVER!!! No, that would be too dangerous. Remember, Park West Gallery disclaims in its terms and conditions any and all VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS made by its auctioneers or sales reps. The pressure put on victims by Park West at these "private meetings" are the equivalent of Doc Meriwether's treatment using Epsom salts a potato peel and a darkened room.]

As soon as the dose had acted, he was led into the outer room. That was my cue. I fetched the previously prepared basin with the potato peel to the outer room, and handed it to Doc Meriwether.

'There my friend,' Doc would say, displaying the basin, 'is your tapeworm! Evil-looking thing, isn’t it?'

Every victim of this hoax was deeply impressed. Not one ever questioned it. He paid the ten-dollar fee and left with the feeling that he had been vastly benefited. Maybe he had. For he had had a good cleansing, in more ways than one."

Every element described in Yellow Kid's con above is used by Park West Gallery auctioneers or sales reps in some form or fashion. True, it's not "Meriwether's Elixir" that Park West Gallery is selling but it might as well be - it is snake oil sales no matter the vehicle used. We are certain that everyone who has been subjected to Park West Gallery sales tactics will recognize many, many similarities. As stated above, Park West Gallery is known to use shills at its dog and pony shows - people like "Yellow Kid" who might seem to be an active part of the interested crowd, but in reality are working for the gallery or the cruise line.

The types of shills that Park West Gallery uses come in all forms. An individual you would least expect as a shill usually and probably is a shill, especially if they appear overly enthusiastic about Park West Gallery inventory. They are used as "props" by Park West Gallery - as one would use a prop on a movie set. They are used to dupe, to con, and lull the victim into a false state of trust and security when all along they have sinister motives. The rule of thumb with Park West Gallery hucksters is: suspect every last one of them and trust not a single one of them to shoot straight with you. They are there to do one thing and one thing only - separate you from your money. In fact, if the Park West sales reps were actually speaking the truth and were trustworthy, Park West Gallery would have no problem with the verbal representations they make. This is not the case as Park West Gallery specifically and officially REFUSES TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for any verbal representations made by its auctioneers. This begs the question: Why? Moreover, if Park West Gallery's auctioneers speak the truth in their representations to victims (which they do not) then why is it that victims waive their right to jury trial when signing the Park West Gallery invoice? Is an individual's right to a jury trial something that can be waived under the U.S. Constitution? Is this something a reputable company would do to its customers?

Remember too that the cruise lines get a great big, fat share of all sales that Park West Gallery sales reps make and often the cruise lines' own employees will work at these sales events (as shills) arm in arm with Park West Gallery. After all, it's a mutually beneficial lucrative financial relationship, just as it was for "Yellow Kid" and Doc Meriwether. Park West Gallery also uses its "mystery auction" and alcohol as a tactic (much like the "special treatment" tapeworm con described above) - all in an effort to make sure that the victims get one heck of a "cleansing" as Yellow Kid so eloquently characterized the fleece. And like most Park West Gallery purchasers, they never know what hit them until it's too late - until the victims decide to perform online research on the oft misrepresented "one of a kind", "once in a lifetime investment opportunities", or when victims decide to sell the so-called "great investments" and are confronted with the grave fact that they have been sold Snake Oil. Many never find out at all and many have yet to discover it.

In order to emphasize the point as it relates to cruise ship art sales or sales in general by Park West Gallery or any other gallery that takes advantage of prospective buyers in this manner, we'll provide one more prime example of the classic con described by Yellow Kid himself. This too can easily be applied to the tactics Park West Gallery uses, and Fine Art Registry will be certain to point out all of these slick tricks for a jury to consider, and since the jury trial will be held in a rural, farming community in Port Huron, Michigan, we are certain there will be many a farmer or agricultural member of the jury that will relate to these dishonorable and shameful deceptions, though we are certain that they will not be appreciated, as Park West Gallery always preys on the unwary or the novice - without regard for economic advantage or disadvantage, as the case may be. Park West Gallery is especially good at taking advantage of the elderly and those of our military service men and women. See the case studies of Robert B. Gutshall, Lt. Col, USAF, (Ret) and Mr. & Mrs. John Pfingsten of Tampa, FL.:


The Hearth & Home Con

"During my travels with Doc Meriwether, I met an itinerant merchant. He appeared to be very prosperous. He told me he lived in Chicago. When I got back the following winter, I looked him up. Over a glass of beer, he related how he was able to make enough during his summer travels to support him the year round. He invited me to join him the following spring.

He was a traveling salesman who sold various items to farmers for small profits. But I had ideas of my own, though I did not tell my partner that. It was not my intention to labor among farmers for small profits. Before we left Chicago, I bought a sizable stock of the equipment we would need, in addition to the stock items my partner carried. Once on the road, I told him my plans. He fell in with them. As soon as we reached the farming section we began to put them into practice.

Among the items my partner sold was a magazine - Hearth & Home, I believe. Catering exclusively to bucolic interests [again Yellow Kid made it a point to target farmers and country folk], it was a great favorite with rural folks and not difficult to sell. A year's subscription was twenty-five cents; the bargain rate was six years for a dollar. My partner was allowed to keep half of the money and was generally satisfied to sell one year's subscription at each farm.

'Let me do the talking,' I proposed, 'until you catch on to my scheme.'

[This is probably how Park West Gallery's star auctioneer trainer, Stoney Goldstein, starts off the training of the Park West Gallery auctioneers at the Southfield, Michigan gallery. For more on Stoney Goldstein, see litigation update No. 8]

He was willing enough. Later, we pulled in at a farmhouse.

'How do you do, sir?' I said to the farmer who answered my knock on his door. 'I am representing that unexcelled journal of rural life, Hearth & Home. I'm sure you're acquainted with it.'

'That is the magazine for womenfolks,' he replied. 'My wife might want it. How much is it?'

'Only twenty-five cents a year, sir.'

'Wait till I call the missus.'

By the time the farmer returned with his wife, I had my 'clincher' out of my bag.

'Yes, I would like to have this for a year,' the farmer's wife said. 'Pa, give the young man a quarter.'

'Madam, I said, 'I have a special offer to make. For a limited time only, with a six-year subscription at the special rate of a dollar and a half, we are giving away, absolutely free, a set of this beautiful silverware.'

I unwrapped my clincher. It was a box containing six bright and shining spoons. 'These silver spoons, Madam,' I continued, while she gasped in admiration, 'are worth the price of the subscription alone. As you can see, they are the best of sterling silver.'

[Park West Gallery will use coupons and mystery auctions as their "clinchers" – be wary of these little tricks of the trade. What follows are what two ex-auctioneers reported to Fine Art Registry about the Park West Gallery mystery auctions:

"The mystery programs are where you bring up a really nice work of art of whoever your biggest mystery piece is going to be at the end of the day. For instance, if I've got a Tarkay, a real expensive mystery at the end of the day, the first piece I bring up on the block is a Tarkay, expensive, I set the price point and I set that credibility in the audience's mind. So by the end of the auction when I offer three Tarkays for $200 or $1000 or whatever they are, well these people have seen 8 Tarkays come across for high prices and all of a sudden you can get three for $800 or whatever so it's all about selling the mysteries. Then get the people into the gallery and it's about selling them over the mysteries, not only what they bid on but we take advantage of this mystery and remember I offered this mystery and was there anything else, and if they buy a Gockel, "Well you would love the Mouly" and if they buy a Mouly, "Mouly was trained by Picasso, you should look at the Picasso" and everything was an upsell, everything was how much can you upsell. Then framing - all the framing they [Park West] would push. At one point they were having us push complete, framed items, then they started having us push the other works of art, the non-framed ones, the regular ones, because with regulars you could add in framing and you could add in the appraisal and you could add and add. They realized you could sell five of those a lot easier than one complete (CP) item. And then when you framed all those and you had all those appraised, then the total of those five was 8 times the amount but the price wasn't as scary. It was just an upsell. Any time I saw people raise their paddle for $150 work of art were thinking, all right, $150, I have a 15% Buyer's Premium, they told me no taxes. They raise their paddle [bid number] thinking they're going to get out with under $200. However, that's a $900 piece by the time they get it framed, matted, shipped, appraised, so that's where the money is made is at that back table [the 'private meeting']."

***

"When I started with Park West our goals were about $15-20,000 and Park West were paying the cruise lines about 15-20% commission. Then the cruise lines started to up their commissions and Park West introduced different ways to sell their art. This mystery program...the whole auction is one big set-up. You don't have to sell much in the auction because you go on the mystery program. For people who could do it well it was a great way to sell. 90% of your sales are done off the auction [outside of the auction setting in the private meetings] and not during the auction so even though the videotaping started in 2005, 2006, people [the auctioneers] were still coming out with the same kind of crap [selling on investment] once the camera stopped rolling. They'd take the mystery pieces and put them down in the gallery and this is where you would have your check-out and one-on-one with the client and this is where you can sit down and say you've got $20K credit, this is on offer, this is when people would start to say it's a great investment and all this other stuff. The guy I trained with, that was his big thing. He would turn around and push everything as an investment and I had to call my friend who was on another ship and tell him this was what was happening and he just couldn't believe it. We could laugh about it at the time but when you look back at it here are all these poor people who invested tens and tens of thousands of dollars thinking they were getting a huge investment when the truth is if they ever tried to flip the artwork, if the gallery found it came from Park West, nobody ever wanted anything to do with that artwork and if someone is willing to buy it, it's at a fraction of what they paid for it on the ship."

Indeed, Park West Gallery and the cruise lines have been laughing all the way to the bank for years now - all at the expense of the victims. BEWARE OF THE RIP OFF MYSTERY AUCTION and the private meetings!]

The woman's eyes shone as she took the spoons in her hand. 'They certainly are beautiful,' she said. Then a flicker of suspicion crossed her face. 'But if they're real silver, they're worth more than you're asking without the magazine. How—'

'Quite true, Madam,' I said quickly. 'But the publishers wish to put this magazine into every farm home in America. That is the reason for this extraordinary introductory offer. Of course, they will lose money on the transaction, but it will be made up by your good will, which will bring more readers and more advertising.'

'That's right, Ma,' said the farmer. 'Them papers make their money on advertising.'

The sale was quickly completed and I took down the name and address of the lady, giving her a receipt for the subscription. I also gave her the half-dozen spoons.

But my business did not end there.

[Park West Gallery sells in the same fashion - silver spoons with purchase, (mystery auctions and bogus discount coupons that really aren't discounts at all - it's the typical "give them nothing for something" scam, plus free artwork "worth hundreds of dollars" which in fact consists of worthless posters) and then the private meeting with victims after the auction is completed. Park West Gallery's business NEVER ends with the auction either…but read on for Yellow Kid's ultimate con coup d'état...]

'Incidentally,' I said, reaching into my pocket and withdrawing a pair of pince-nez glasses, 'when we were coming down the road, my partner and I found these spectacles. Do you happen to know anybody in the community who wears glasses like these?

Theodore Roosevelt wearing a pair of Pince-Nez glasses
Theodore Roosevelt wearing a pair of Pince-Nez glasses.

'No, can't say that I do,' the farmer replied, taking the glasses from me.

'Too bad,' I said regretfully. 'If I could find the owner, I would return them. They look like expensive eyeglasses. I imagine the person who lost them would pay three or four dollars reward for their return.'

As I was talking, the farmer tried on the spectacles. He held up the sample copy of the magazine I had given him and the print stood out clearly. Probably he'd been intending to get a pair of glasses the next time he went to town. He looked at the rims, which appeared to be solid gold. They looked costly.

[If it looks and sounds too good to be true, it usually and probably is. Take this into account when Park West Gallery and its auctioneers are hyping up the framed salesman's samples of artwork they show on board ship or at land auctions. As it relates to the prints they are selling - none of it is available for inspection outside of the frame and the vast majority of the inventory is not even located on ship at the time they are pitching it. When they tell you that the artwork is "signed" or "embellished" or "painted" by "the artist" - ask them "what artist"? Park West hires people to embellish their works of art and in many cases it has been reported to Fine Art Registry that Park West Gallery and its employees also sign the artwork and number it too. They do the same for their Dali print inventory, why not everything else too? They work like little bees in the basement of the gallery and are paid hourly to do so. This is undisputed and Park West Gallery principals have admitted to this. Yet Park West Gallery never discloses these facts to the prospective buyers. Why? Because they want victims to believe that all of what they sell is actually created in the artists' studios. Nothing could be further from the truth. All one has to do is consider the sheer volume that Park West Gallery deals in to know that there is no way that the living artists they represent (many of whom who are not even located in the U.S.) can be physically present at the Southfield, Michigan gallery to embellish and hand sign prints. Beware of the Park West weasel words or broad general statements on the Park West Gallery Certificates of Authenticity such as "signed in pencil lower right", "signed in acrylic", "signed in ink" or "giclee in color with hand embellishment" with no definitive designations on the Park West Gallery certificate as to exactly who applied the embellishments or the exact identity of the artist who may have signed the work. These are weasel words and they are deceiving. Park West Gallery leaves themselves an "out" or so they believe, so that if they are ever challenged they can say - well, we never said it was actually "signed" or "embellished" by Mouly, Max, Le Kniff or any other artist they carry - that's because they are often signed and embellished by Park West employees in the basement of the Gallery - yet this is never, ever disclosed to buyers. The true value of a piece of artwork for a collector comes from believing that the artist was actually and truthfully involved in the process of creating the artwork - that the artist's hand actually touched the paper or the canvas. Who wants a piece of art done by some nobody, hourly employee working in the dungeon of a building in Southfield, Michigan? NO ONE, much less at the prices paid to Park West Gallery.]

'Tell you what I'll do,' he [the farmer] proposed. 'I'll give you three dollars and keep the glasses. I'll look around for the owner, as long as you won't be able to make a complete search.'

'That's right,' I agreed. 'I can't afford to go from house to house inquiring who lost a pair of glasses.'

So I took the three dollars and he took the glasses. Of course, he had no intention of looking for the owner - any more than I did. As a matter of fact, he was just as anxious to have me on my way, as I was to go. In time, he would discover that the frames were cheap and that the lenses were no more than magnifying glass. If he took the trouble to ask, he would find that he could duplicate them in the city for twenty-five cents.

[This should be resonating with many victims. Fine Art Advocacy has received over 400 Park West Gallery complaints. All of these victims are holding "spectacles" that were represented as valuable - solid gold - in fact only to learn the disappointing truth later when they discover they could have bought the same thing for much, much less, and many times the exact same thing, for pennies on the dollar. The complaints from victims–all citing the exact same circumstances - same exact pitch - same exact representations - same exact method of operation in every case - continue to come in to us on a daily basis.]

[The Farmer's] good wife would soon learn that the beautiful silver spoons I had given her were cheap metal. I had bought them before leaving Chicago for a cent each. My net profit on the deal was about three dollars and fifty cents, which I figured the farmer could well afford for a lesson in honesty. He had paid for the glasses because he thought he was getting something expensive at a fraction of their true value. His wife had thought she was getting something for nothing.

This desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men. But I have found that this is the way it works. The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine percent animal and one percent human. The ninety-nine percent that is animal causes very little trouble. But the one percent that is human causes all our woes. When people learn - as I doubt they ever will - that they can't get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in greater harmony."



It's interesting that Yellow Kid did not apologize for his life of crime. He was a died-in-the-wool criminal and an extraordinary con man, and as many criminals often do [Madoff is a prime example], he had a twisted and somewhat skewed outlook on his life of crime, never repenting and maintaining that whoever he conned actually deserved what he or she got.

At the close of the book, he writes his "Last Words" and states, in part:

"It has been several years since I have had any but honest dealings with other men. But I still feel as I always did on one subject - that the men I fleeced were basically no more honest than I was.

Analyzing my own actions in retrospect, I don't believe I ever had any basic desire to be dishonest. One of the motivating factors in my actions was, of course, the desire to acquire money. [There can be no doubt that greed is the primary motive for Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione and the cruise lines. Not an honest wage, but pure voracious greed.] The other motive was a lust for adventure - and this was the only kind of adventure for which I was equipped.

The men I swindled were also motivated by a desire to acquire money, and they didn't care at whose expense they got it. I was particular. [Unlike Park West Gallery and the cruise lines]. I took money only from those who could afford it and were willing to go in with me in schemes they fancied would fleece others.

They wanted money for its own sake. I wanted it for the luxuries and pleasures it would afford me. They were seldom concerned with human nature. They knew little - and cared less - about their fellow men. [This couldn't be a more true statement as it relates to Park West Gallery and the cruise lines. They care little or nothing for the victims they con.] If they had been keener students of human nature, if they had given more time to companionship with their fellow man and less to the chase of the almighty dollar, they wouldn't have been such easy marks.

Every swindle I ever developed had a hole in it somewhere. But I made everything plausible - to anyone who did not dig too deep or ask questions.

[Isn't it something that Park West Gallery has flown under the radar for so long? - at least until Fine Art Registry started digging deep and asking the tough questions—questions that Park West Gallery has never to this day answered and it isn't for a lack of trying on our part. Fine Art Registry has approached Park West Gallery from day one and on numerous occasions over the last three years of our investigation. In every single case, they have refused to answer the tough questions - choosing instead to hide behind the skirts of their lawyers - and threatening to ruin victims and experts who would speak out against their deceptive practices.]

Only one man seemed to profit by the lesson I taught him. He was a Montana banker who bought some of my worthless stock [much like the Park West Gallery appraisals]. He was ready to take his medicine. Though I was arrested, he declined to identify me as the swindler [Park West Gallery and Albert Scaglione should be so lucky]. As a result I was acquitted. Later I heard him remark, 'You can fleece a lamb every year, but you only get his hide once.' [Park West Gallery fleeces the lambs from the cruise ship passengers' lists every chance they get. Don't let them take your hide.]

Lies were the foundation of my schemes. A lie is an allurement, a fabrication that can be embellished into a fantasy. It can be clothed in raiments of a mystic conception. [Park West Gallery and its hucksters are TRAINED to do exactly this. Fine Art Registry has scores and scores of interviews with victims that have told us ad nauseam how Park West Gallery auctioneers lie, cheat and fabricate to make a sale. And why not? Park West Gallery can later say that their terms and conditions specifically exclude its sales reps’ verbal representations.]

Truth is cold, sober fact, not so comfortable to absorb. A lie is more palatable. The most detested person in the world is one who always tells the truth, who never romances.

If a lie is told often enough even the teller comes to believe it. It becomes a habit. And habit is like a cable. Each day another strand is added until you have woven a cable that is unbreakable. [Park West Gallery has woven quite a cable over the last decade or more of selling on cruise ships and at its land sales events.]

It was that way with me. I found it far more interesting and profitable to romance than to tell the truth. It has taken me five years to break that cable. That's why I haven't told this story until this late date. [1948]

People say that I am the most successful and the most colorful confidence man that ever lived. I won't deny it. There is good reason why I am regarded as in a class by myself.

The fact is that I have played more roles in real life than the average actor ever dreamed of. The actor has a script carefully prepared for him in advance. I made my own script as I went along, depending upon my wits for any contingency.

Some small gesture that was out of character in the role I was portraying, or the wrong answer to a question might have betrayed me. Fortunately for me, I always had the right answer and carried off convincingly the role I played. [So now you can see why Park West Gallery specifically disclaims representations made by its sales reps, not a bit of it can be relied on as true and they know it. Otherwise, Park West Gallery would be buying back the same crap they are trying to pawn off to unsuspecting victims using as support the worthless appraisals they charge for - so the victims really believe they are getting a valuable document. And round and round we go.]

It is my hope that I will live to see the enactment of one more law - to mete out equal punishment for all who have larceny in their hearts.

I am not talking about small swindles, where an honest person loses his money. I have never been a party to such schemes. I have never taken a dime from honest, hard-working people who could not afford to lose. [Park West Gallery and the cruise lines do not discriminate. The Park West Gallery "private label credit card" for which anyone with a heartbeat will qualify, is used to give someone the perception who has no money or can ill afford to make such a purchase, that they are rich - thereby making the fleece of the unsuspecting "lamb" a piece of cake.]

I am now seventy years old and I look back over my career with mingled feelings. I have retired and I want to do what I can to promote harmony among my fellow men. For this reason, I decided to tell the inside story of my long and, I must admit, dishonorable career."


Joseph 'Yellow Kid' Weil

We can only hope that someday Park West Gallery and the cruise line executives will do the same and make things right with hundreds of victims, but we aren't holding our breath. Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil did plenty of stints in prison. He died on February 26, 1976 at the ripe old age of 100. In his mind, Yellow Kid believed that crime did pay - but sadly at the expense of many a victim.

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