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McManus Auction and Christopher Morales

Its the second coming of Coaches Corner. Morales seems to be the main authenticator. Mantle, Williams, DiMaggio just to name few are being sold. Just more garbage that needs to be exposed

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 6, 2014 at 6:50pm

Definitely the second coming of Coach's Corner Auctions.

Look at the crap (forgeries) on that site.

http://www.icollector.com/search.aspx?q=mickey%20mantle

http://www.icollector.com/search.aspx?q=babe%20ruth

I'll post photos tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on January 6, 2014 at 7:09pm

Looked like one of them read your posts and extended an e (318 I believe). Just despicable. The paluso should be good if original.

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Permalink Reply by Darin Harvey on January 6, 2014 at 6:57pm

Yeah, its pathetic Chris! I was SMH the whole time scrolling through their crap. Again, casual collectors need to do their homework, their keeping these garbage auction sites alive

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Permalink Reply by Richard S. Simon on January 26, 2014 at 1:44pm

I think that the majority of buyers of this crap in an auction of this type are resellers. This sh-- then filters down to smaller auctions, local sites and obscure internet auctions. It is like a virus in the bloodstream, if you cannot kill it then it will destroy you.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on January 7, 2014 at 6:18am

icollector.com should be changed to iidiot.com

Looks like Captain Jirks auctions is competing with McmANUS Auctions to see who is the top forgery salesman on the iidiot.com site is.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick McManus on January 16, 2014 at 8:43pm

I realize that there is a lot of experts out there, many in this form. I'm an auctioneer selling the collection jan 25. I'm not an expert on signatures , we have COA from Chris m and Psa, and many others I would say to look close at the collection here's why 80-90 of the signatures were acquired by the owners grandfather in 1920 from where he was manager of checker cab in Detroit . Later his son in 1950 acquired another 100 so pieces, the remaining collection came later. There's lots of pictures on the auction site, a COA is just an opinion, make up your own mind on what's good and what's not. MCMANSAUCTIONS.com

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on January 16, 2014 at 9:50pm

The point is if you were running an ethical business you would be the one making sure that everything is good and not putting the buyer in a position of potentially buying a forgery.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick McManus on January 16, 2014 at 9:57pm

I do run a ethical business , but how am I to say this is good and that isn't ? I asked Psa to come out and look at the collection, they wanted $ 5,000 , I'm lucky if I make half of that in commision. I understand your point though

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 17, 2014 at 4:01am

Mr. McManus, if you want to run an "ethical" business, your first course of action should be to remove all of the "autographs (forgeries)" with COAs from Morales.

That would be a responsible first step.

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Permalink Reply by David S on January 18, 2014 at 1:33pm

Mr. McManus,

You contradict and implicate yourself in this statement. "I'm lucky if I make half of that in commission". So, you think you are going to only make $2500 in commission from this sale ($5000/2)? Let's do a little math here for fun. I don't know what your commission rates & buyer's premiums are, but typically it's something in the arena of 10%-20% on both ends of the deal. For instance Heritage Auction charges sellers 15% commission, and charges the buyer a 19.5% buyers premium. That's comes to 34.5% total. For simplicity, let's say you guys get 25% commission (between seller & buyer). This is on the low end, so I think I'm being conservative here. If you sell that one multi-signed ball that is "estimated" at $175,000 you would profit 0.25*175,000 which equals $43,750.

So while you advertise and tell your customers that this ball is worth $175,000 (obviously implying that it is real), you also say that you think you will only make $2500 in commission on the ENTIRE auction. So let's do some more math...In order for you to make $2500 in commission, you will need to sell how many dollars worth of items? again, using 25% commission (between both seller commission and buyer's premium) as an example....0.25*X=$2500. X=$10,000 So that means you think you will only sell $10,000 worth of items at this auction. Mr. McManus, how is this possible, when there are many items "valued" themselves at over $10,000 and several over $100,000?

It just doesn't add up, and you know it.