If anyone knows who bought this fake

[Tcards-Please]

Dan,
How did you identify it as a fake? I admit I don't have the eye to pick up this stuff just yet.

r/
Frank

[Anthony S.]

Originally Posted by T's please

Dan,
How did you identify it as a fake? I admit I don't have the eye to pick up this stuff just yet.

r/
Frank

Here you go, Frank:

http://net54baseball.com/forum/conte...tingfakes.html

[jabiloxi]

There has to be better prevention on ebay from this stuff.

[Ladder7]

Okay,
What a nice fellow., He'll be happy with $600-800 for the Ruth rookie with autograph. His Jeter rookie however, is available for $200 bin.

[tbob]

eBay is a jungle out there for the uninformed, especially when it comes to specialty sections like pre-war cards. I think we sometimes presume people bidding on prewar cards read Net54 or have more than a passing knowledge of the cards but the sad truth is a lot of bidders are generally clueless, even on high price cards.

[ibuysportsephemera]

Not that I don't have sympathy for an unsuspecting buyer....but who in their right mind pays hundreds or thousands of dollars for collectibles without a little bit of knowledge?

Jeff

[slantycouch]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

Not that I don't have sympathy for an unsuspecting buyer....but who in their right mind pays hundreds or thousands of dollars for collectibles without a little bit of knowledge?

Jeff

Maybe it's a case of 'just enough knowledge to be dangerous'.

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

Not that I don't have sympathy for an unsuspecting buyer....but who in their right mind pays hundreds or thousands of dollars for collectibles without a little bit of knowledge?

Jeff

People with more money than brains, and there certainly are plenty of them.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I can't beleive the greediness of forgers. The only thing that eclipses the shoddiness of the reprint is that disgusting "autograph". I didn't realize that Stevie Wonder was a forger!

[Buythatcard]

I've been selling for about 10 years on eBay and have sold about 65,000 cards. It has also happend to me in which I tried to sell a card which turned out to be fake. I didn't know until someone contacted me. Whenever someone suspects that i might have a fake, I immediately pull it from ebay. I then go post the scan of the card on Net54 and let the experts here decide whether its a fake or not.

I think that if any of the experts see an obvious fake on eBay, they should contact the seller before the auction ends. I know that if someone contacted me to let me know I had a fake up there I would be grateful for their advice. I can't speak for all sellers.

We are just human and sometimes we make mistakes.