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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 11, 2012 at 6:39am

OMG that's bad.

You don't even need to be familiar with Pujol's signature to know that one is a clunker. You'd think anyone with a fundamental grasp of speed and flow would know something was very wrong with that signature.

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Permalink Reply by Kyle M. on March 12, 2012 at 9:30pm

Looks like Pujol got the shakes when signing this ball LOL

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Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on March 11, 2012 at 6:50am

I saw this last night. Looks flat out terrible. Another hot mess being served up by our buddies at GAI.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 11, 2012 at 8:12am

Holy crap!!!  That is one awful forgery listed by Ebay seller Probstein123.  Just shows that almost all of these consignment sellers don't know squat about autographs.  As a matter of fact, many of the autographs listed  by consignment sellers, are autographs that have been previously removed by Ebay.  I am puzzled that seller Probstein123 isn't more careful about his autograph listings.

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Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on March 11, 2012 at 8:44am

Ok, I think I jumped the gun when I bashed on GAI this time around. You guys, check out the link to the auction site and look at the closeup picture of the GAI sticker. That thing has clearly been tampered with. Probably taken off of a good autograph and placed on this piece of crap.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Sipe on March 11, 2012 at 8:47am

Nice call. This is a fake label and a fake certificate. Obviously the signature is fake also and no one at the company would ever certify a Pujols autograph like this. It is being removed and I am speaking with the seller tomorrow.

 

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Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on March 11, 2012 at 9:05am

Maybe someone from GAI saw it on ebay and voided it instantly.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 11, 2012 at 9:03am

I certainly applaud Mr. Sipe taking action on this.  I will say here that I have alerted Mr. Sipe to some suspicious GA certed items in the past and he has taken action. 

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Permalink Reply by CEE GEE on March 11, 2012 at 8:55am

I hate to see this on Probestein's auction...He usually has thousands of auction items up at one clip...I don't think he would willing sell junk...this is quite bad...don't know if he overlooks all items either...but I know he does do those consignment sales...I don't know why this would be something they would be interested in on a split sale...it is really horrific...

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Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on March 11, 2012 at 1:36pm

I deleted my comment asking who Steve Sipe was. I appologize, I had no idea that he was "The Man" at GAI. I'm still pretty new here, and don't have many items authenticated from GAI. That is very awesome that he took action that fast.

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