Beware of Scammer.....AKA Steve Schwartz

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Posted By: Dave F

I've made some dumb moves over the course of my life...here is another. A couple days ago I thought I found two Yum Yum tobacco cards on ebay. I did contact the seller privately asking if he'd be interested in moving the cards early..and he said yes. He said he wasn't a sportscard guy, that he does fall on some now and then from a local flea market he goes to but that he is first and foremost a non-sports collector. He said for $400 he would end the auctions and send both Yum Yums to me. The scans weren't great...I was iffy on them. I did ask two board members who are vastly more knowledgeable with these cards than I...and both said they felt the cards could be legit.

Thanks to a conversation on the phone yesterday afternoon with another knowledgable pre-1900 card collector...he himself decided to do some investigating and found the same cards listed a few weeks earlier by "marketkingman" (oh boy). So the bogus story I got from "dspbaba999" about finding the cards a few days ago at a flea market along with some other cards (a couple goudeys that he now has on ebay and trying to pass them off as real, when I found a couple months ago he bought them as known reprints for 99 cent or something) has fallen to the wayside. This guy is nothing but a scammer. I did file a report through paypal for whatever good that does.

I would love to find out if this "dspbaba999" is in fact Steven Schwartz which is the name the paypal transaction went to. Supposedly he is in New York...not sure yet though if thats even his real name. I guess everyone on here already knows to stay away from "marketkingman" but please be careful and stay away from "dspbaba999" as well..they very well could be one in the same.

Here are the links for both sellers-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44821&item=120236990578

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44821&item=120236990702

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4120&item=160217637738

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4120&item=160217639028