‘For 166 years,’ says the website blurb of the world’s most famous jeweller, ‘Tiffany & Co has been America.’ In Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly refers to the shop as ‘the best place in the world, where nothing bad can take place’.

Which indeed may be the case for all this columnist knows.

But over in cyberspace, bad things have been happening - at least according to Tiffany’s lawyers. It seems that scoundrels have been flogging fake Tiffany products on eBay.

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