Baseball-Cards.com - Joseph Juhasz

[cdogstu99]

So, i stumbled across the site baseball-cards.com a little while back and despite some of the ugly design of the site, found some interesting stuff. They have a weekly auction and bid on and won a few things. After receiving the auction invoice, I paid Mr Juhasz. I asked four days later for some information to track shipping (since the invoice points out a spot on the website for tracking info that doesn't exist). No response. Three more emails and no response. It has now been nine days, and no shipping information and no response to emails. The phone number goes to a full mailbox.

Now I wish I had seen this
https://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=245039

And then I also talked to someone on Blowout who ordered supplies and never got his order.

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1428457

Oh and then found another complaint of someone that never got their order:

From the BBB:

Complaint Type: Problems with Product/Service
Status: Unanswered
05/20/2020

"I sent this company 135 dollars for sports card supplies. They proceeded to take my payment, and never gave me any shipping information, or information of any kind, except to acknowledge my payment of 135 dollars. I sent 2 emails that were marked as, "undeliverable". Called the phone number and got a message that said, "the mailbox is full". In fact, there was a message that said the email address was invalid. This company alleges to be in business for 25 years, is listed as a trusted dealer in the San Diego area, yet from my experience with them, I feel they are running some type of scam."

So at this point, I think Joseph Juhasz is an outright scammer. Thus, if you ever run across this website, please, please just go somewhere else.

I'm filing a complaint with Paypal now, but felt this information needed to be put out there for fellow collectors.

[Jim65]

I used to buy from them years ago and they were always slow shipper. My last order was missing a $5 card and I emailed him and he basically called me a liar. I never ordered again.

[cdogstu99]

Thanks for letting me know that. My order was for less than $100 so it's not really a huge monetary deal for me. But I will not sit around and let this guy take advantage of people--and it's pretty clear that is happening.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Nevermind.

[pclpads]

Just an FYI - Haven't thot or heard of this guy in years. He used to run monthly in-person auctions in San Diego, back in the early '90's. He'd rent out a meeting room in a local hotel for a couple of hours and give it a go. No idea if he is still in SD. And his local auctions stopped maybe 20 years ago. Never bought from his auctions so don't have any opinion of him pro or con. But, as Leon always says, caveat emptor.

[cubman1941]

I used to bid on his auctions all the time however, in February 2019 I won one of his auctions, paid and never received the item. I sent numerous emails and finally in April got this:

"I'm sorry - thought it had been corrected.
Will ship or refund by tomorrow.


Joe"

It never came and he never answered me again. That was the last bid I placed with him.

[cdogstu99]

This was my exact fear, that this was not just a few one off isolated incidents or one off mistakes. This guy needs to be shut down. Like I said, low impact for me, but I would like to see him investigated and shut down. Anyone have any ideas what to do from here?


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[pclpads]

First is to find out where he lives to determine legal jurisdiction. If he is still in SD, contact the County of San Diego DA, Summer Stephan. She is a whiz on BS like this. I'm not a lawyer, but I know some are on N54. I'm sure they could give you some advice. Good Luck!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by cdogstu99

This was my exact fear, that this was not just a few one off isolated incidents or one off mistakes. This guy needs to be shut down. Like I said, low impact for me, but I would like to see him investigated and shut down. Anyone have any ideas what to do from here?


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Generally speaking (and I am no where close to a lawyer) you probably need to be the victim to have a chance. Then it is your local authorities that get tax money to protect you. I have been told by authorities that is usually the best place to start. Good luck

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[Gorditadogg]

I don't think he is a scammer, I think he is an old guy that goes at his own pace. I have been bidding on his Sunday auction off and on for the last couple years. When I win it takes him a couple weeks to get the invoice out to me. Once I pay the cards get to me pretty quickly.

He grades his cards fairly, I have won probably $2-3,000 from him and never felt like I bought something that was overgraded.

He is quirky though, he doesn't answer his phone and he usually doesn't respond to emails either. Although when I told him I had problems with my login he fixed it right away so he must be reading his emails at least.

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[cdogstu99]

Thanks for the response, but I'm not really willing to accept the fact that he is old and a slow shipper as a reason why he should allowed to keep doing business. Excluding myself, I've already identified three parties that paid for items and have not received their purchases--all over a year old.

[Gorditadogg]

You can do what you want to do. Go for it. You just called him out though for being a scammer and I wanted to set the record straight on that.

Here are some of the items that I got delivered from him last week.

[eusmawh]

Delete

[cannonballsun]

I've had some dealing with this seller. I have gotten most of the stuff I ordered from him, but I have had a few things missing, but nothing significant.
I don't think it's an honesty problem, I think it's an efficiency problem.
I haven't bought anything from him in awhile. If he came up with something I really wanted I would buy again, but I would try to keep any order small and very easy to fulfill. That way if there was an issue, it should be easy to get straightened out.

[eusmawh]

Would not recommend. Lost a little over $40 from him in cards not delivered.

[farberjustin]

I'm waiting on over $1,100 worth of cards purchased over a week ago. He has his voicemail disabled and hasn't responded to four of my emails. Guess I'll open a PayPal claim next week? Anyone have any better way of contacting him?

[cubman1941]

Lots of Luck. I didn't learn my lesson and, after a year and reading some comments on here, bid again on a couple items. The first auction went o.k. with no problem. The second one I never heard from him. I also sent a couple emails with no response. I sent letters to the San Diego police department explaining the situation enclosing copies of emails I had sent. I ask them only to do a welfare check. The response I got back was "not enough information enclosed I needed to enclose license number of car" and other information. I gathered this was their way of telling me to get lost. I also sent a similar letter to the Chamber just in case he was a member. No response. I have chalked it up to a life lesson learned a second time.

[egri]

I just took a look at his site. Aside from the antiquated interface others have mentioned, he doesn’t seem to update it. I was looking at the signed 1961 Topps page, and there were a number of players who have been dead for years and that was not reflected in the listing. Also, his prices seemed a bit strong. Not Dean’s strong, but for someone who bragged on the front page about his auctions being better than eBay, I’m sure I could find better prices there, and not have to put up with the runaround from him.