That's One Way To Get Rid Of Those Pesky Base Cards, I Guess - Sports Cards UncensoredSports Cards Uncensored

Over the last few weeks, I have gotten a lot of emails on a seller who is wreaking havoc on eBay selling fake autographs on cheap base cards, more than 100 at a time in some cases. Its obvious the signatures are fake to a point where not even the most clueless person would bid on them, but that doesnt excuse the practice of fraud itself. Oddly enough, when it comes to fake autographs, its rare that someone can actually produce a believable fake of this sort, and yet, you see these types of sellers testing the waters none-the-less. Even though this type of douchebaggery is easily identified, it still bears mention here.

Here are some examples of the cards this idiot is selling, check out how bad some of these are:

Adrian Peterson Signed Upper Deck Card

Reggie Bush Signed Upper Deck Card

Tom Brady Signed Topps Card

Vince Young Signed Upper Deck Card

Hank Aaron Signed Card

Brett Favre Signed Topps Card

Pretty bad, right?

The bottom line is that many collectors have huge collections of signed cards that they have obtained through the mail, and it is not a far stretch of the mind to understand that people bid on these cards thinking that this is exactly the case. In the end, it comes down to the education of the collecting base itself, and that is where a lot of us are failing to measure up.

I would think that a great solution would be a free database of displayed signatures known to be authentic, with displayed points of what to look for to prevent buying fakes. It would take a lot of time, but at the end of the day you can easily educated people to avoid cards and sellers like this.

8 thoughts on “That’s One Way To Get Rid Of Those Pesky Base Cards, I Guess”

Wow. That Aaron is awful.

Funny enough, I have that exact card (1982 KMart 20th Anniversary Set) signed by Aaron from a signing appearance that my Mom took me out of school to attend in 83 or 84. (Yes, I didn’t have anything else for him to sign, but it’s a sight better than the add for the department store that sponsored the signing. Although, now that I think about it, I should have gotten a baseball.)

Needless to say, the autos don’t match,

Dude, those auto’s look COMPLETELY legit…

To Stevie Wonder or Helen Keller

Did he use the same exact pen on almost every auto?

Pujols autos at $34, Ryan at $18 and Aaron at $9? These people making these bids must be ignorant of real market prices. That is just a blind trust in humanity or so determined to own these autographs they are willing to accept a fake just to say they own one.

The Aaron threw me off completely. He hasn’t had a legible signature in a LONG time, and that one is perfect. Too perfect. A couple of those auto’s are pretty decent fakes, especially to someone who is ignorant or just completely unaware.

I’ll give the seller credit, he’s got balls the size of grapefruits trying to sell that many fakes at once.

I’ve been helping eBay rid forgery sellers since 1997 until they changed their rules over a year ago. Now I GET SUSPENDED if I ask questions of a suspected forgery seller??? I’m a Forensic Document Examiner who has NEVER ONCE been wrong about any forgery seller on ebay.
eBay no longer cares about ridding it’s site of fraud UNLESS a LARGE amount of people complain about the same seller. But of course they made even doing that so ridiculously difficult that almost no one bnothers. Clicking that “REPORT ITEM” button on eBay is a crap shoot much like slot machines in Vegas. They fire half their “experts” because of the economy & at the same time tell their 100% FREE experts like myself to STOP helping them. Can someone please explain the logic in that other than eBay ONLY CARING ABOUT MAKING MONEY!!!