Funny Counterfeit Story

[samosa4u]

There is a guy who posts on this forum (don't want to say his name) and he likes purchasing cards from around the world. One day he purchased a Quigol Pele from a guy in Brazil. He made the mistake of sending him money through Western Union. When the card arrived, he realized the guy sent him a counterfeit. He still decided to send it to PSA though and they rejected it (good job, guys!) When he got it back, he tried to ask for his money back. Of course, the Brazilian guy refused (because he is a scammer, duh!)

Now instead of taking a 100 percent loss, he decided to list it on eBay. He did include the PSA rejection slip along with the card. When I saw it running, I immediately contacted him and explained that whoever buys it is probably going to try and scam another person with it. The guy, however, still let the auction run to the end, and it finished at around $200 USD.

Sure enough the winner was a scammer, and he listed it as authentic soon after. I immediately saw this and sent him a message. He started saying things like "I own a few authentic examples, and this card looks 100 percent the same like the others ... I don't have time to send it in for grading, blah, blah, blah ..." This guy was something else. I reported him to eBay multiple times, but they didn't do crap. Anyhow, there was another collector, who resides in the same country as the scammer, and he threatened to report him to the authorities. He eventually ended up taking the counterfeit Quigol Pele down.

A couple of months later the card was up again, and a few collectors pointed it out to me. I was going to contact him again, but then I thought "wait ... this is a freaking Quigol Pele we're talking about here ... NO ONE is going to buy it and not submit it for grading." So I decided to just leave him alone.

The card did end up selling, and I forgot about the whole thing for a few weeks. Then just yesterday, I decided to check out the guy's feedback, and guess what I saw? His FIRST neg! Well, actually, it was his mother's first neg. You see, this punk doesn't have an eBay account and decided to use his mother's. His mother sells mostly cheap clothing, but she's a good eBayer who had a flawless feedback (red star). Now just imagine the look on her face when she woke up one morning and saw that neg on her account - ouch! I really hope she gave this punk a belting. I had a really good laugh over this and I hope he learned his lesson.