TV Show About Sports Autograph Fraud on Friday

[Fuddjcal]

not to mention, all you have to do is look for "GAI" Global certification on any Mantle photo on e bay to see all Marino's fine work. it's been a LONG, LONG TIME since I've seen a Global cert that has an authentic Mantle. They are just Curt Flooding the market with Dime store phoney's...STILL. It is about 500-1 these days....Brought to you by, E-bay and their approved 3rd party authenticator! thanks E-bay!

[danc]

What I found most amusing is how much Upper Deck cared about having the signatures of their exclusive clients sold by others in fraudulent form. Where are they now? Upper Deck has LeBron James, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and are they doing anything at all about their signatures?

I went to a show a few weeks ago and a guy had a binder full of those GAI certified Mantle's.

The bust was well in fine then, but did that change the hobby for the better?

Nope.

DanC

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Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

not to mention, all you have to do is look for "GAI" Global certification on any Mantle photo on e bay to see all Marino's fine work. it's been a LONG, LONG TIME since I've seen a Global cert that has an authentic Mantle. They are just Curt Flooding the market with Dime store phoney's...STILL. It is about 500-1 these days....Brought to you by, E-bay and their approved 3rd party authenticator! thanks E-bay!

I totally agree those GAI certificates on Mantle on just a joke. I would never buy anything w/ a global cert. they are pure trash.

[mr2686]

I agree that this show was a bit superficial. This all happened in my backyard and my buddy actually had a card shop in the same town as Bray. The dirty little secret is that a lot of collectors knew to stay away from him because he sold a lot of bad stuff, but I don't think they knew how much stuff he was turning out on the market.