Time for your weekly dose of “Spot the Card Art” and I am your host, Gellman. Today we have a wonderful example of a mona lisa level masterpiece, starring a complete set of 2008 SP Authentic Patch autos. As you can see from the pictures provided by the seller, most of these patches are so fake that even Pamela Anderson would turn her nose up at them being too much for her. Its terrible that someone would even think to put down that kind of cash on a set like this when so many of them are obviously not real.
My favorite fakes in the set are definitely the Felix Jones, the Chris Johnson, the Joe Flacco and the Eddie Royal. The Felix is pretty much the worst of the worst, as whoever thought it was a good idea to put a 75th anniversary patch in the window, had not done enough research to know that he did not wear a throwback with that patch at the premiere. The others are just prime examples of all the most faked patches in football, with the Ravens sleeve patch, the Titan sword logo and the Dolphin sleeve patch are all a part of this auction. None are even close to being questionable, and so far, no one has bitten on the huge buy it now – at least they havent YET.
I would say that the cards themselves are definitely worth a lot money just for the autographs and the completed set itself, but the sheer amount of fakes definitely have diminished the overall value considerably. What is the most interesting is that this guy, whoever he is, has put together a set without finding out that fakes are a huge problem on a lot of these cards. You would think that if you are working to put together a set like this, considering the time it takes to complete it, you would not have a problem recognizing fakes.
2008 SP Authentic Patch sets have come up for sale a few times before, sometimes with epic selling prices at the height of Flacco/Ryan hype, but none have ever had this many pieces of card art. It just goes to show you how much of a problem this has become.
Maybe that is why it is up for sale.
The fakes are truly at a ridiculous level. 90% of Collectors are just plain stupid. I just emailed a seller about a fake 75 anniversary altered patch auto of felix jones. I explained why the patch is altered. Felix Jones clearly did not play in the nfl in 1995. I will follow up with a response when I get one.
I love attacking these sellers, I bet the seller will respond in broken english with bad spelling and bad grammar. My guess is that the seller will say they didn’t pull it from a pack so who they bought it from said it was real and they also thought it may be fishy but it must be real.
I got a response and this is it: “Thanks for your message. There are actually two others like this that I’ve seen over the last few years, just with a different part of this patch. I would not have even known it was part of the 75th aniversary logo patch just by looking at it. I had to look into it myself. 2008 SPA has many unique patches featuring old team logos from a variety of jerseys. I understand your scepticism but I can guarantee you that I did not create this patch. Thanks again.”
You just can’t reason with these scammers.
I dont think he created it, I think he collected all the patches without a clue that they were fake, finally realized what was going on, and needed to sell. The problem is, no one is as clueless as he is to bid.
I agree with you Gellman. He probably didn’t create them and wants to sell them now that he knows what is going on.