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Ebay Seller Concentricks Mickey Mantle Autographed Baseball Forgery COA B&J Collectibles Operation Bullpen

Here's another Mickey Mantle forgery on a baseball found on Ebay with a worthless COA from B&J Collectibles.

As we all know, B&J Collectibles was a major distributor of forgeries during the "Operation Bullpen" era.

This Mickey Mantle forgery is listed by Ebay seller Concentricks.

This crap (forgeries) will continue to infect the autograph hobby forever.

This is a typical UGLY Mickey Mantle forgery from the "Operation Bullpen" era.

The "Home Shopping" shows alone sold approximately $750,000 in forgeries to consumers.

Ebay continues, as they have for the past twenty years, to profit from the sales of forgeries.

Here is the Mickey Mantle forgery listed by Ebay seller Concentricks and the worthless COA from "B&J Collectibles."

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-Autographed-Signed-Official-A...

Look st this crappy "500 HR Club" forged baseball with a worthless COA from B&J Collectibles.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on August 13, 2014 at 7:38pm

B&J Collectibles and Stan's Sports... Two operation bullpen major distributors and both worthy of the forgery hall of shame!

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Permalink Reply by Concentricks on August 14, 2014 at 8:22am

Hello, I was the ebay seller who listed the Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio baseballs. I would like to thank the person who alerted me to this blog post. After I saw this, I did a search on B&J collectibles and found that they were engaged in fraudulent activity. I should have done this beforehand, but live and learn. The current owner is an older friend that does not do ebay and he asked me to sell these for him. I am sure he was not aware these were fake and now I have to tell him they are.

I have been on eBay for 16 years and have 100% positive feedback. If you look at the items I sell you will realize I am not in the business of selling forgeries. I have now removed the items. No way would I knowingly risk that long-earned reputation by selling fake collectibles.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on August 14, 2014 at 12:17pm

Thank you for doing the right thing. Too many sellers stubbornly resist and fall back on a bogus COA. B&J Collectibles sold many thousands of bad items and was a major distributor for the forgery ring busted by the FBI. These things will be surfacing for decades to come.