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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 7:54am

I am certain that Amazon is reading this "Discussion." 

I want to say to Amazon, that if they don't know it by now, that Chris Morales, TTA   and Stat Authentic COAs are on Ebay's "Banned COA" list.   That means, that when an autograph with a COA from Chris Morales, TTA or Stat Authentic is found on Ebay and is "Reported" it gets removed from the Ebay auction site.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 8:31am

I would also like to make the point that the memorabilia side of the Amazon website isn't all forgeries.  There are some nice pieces listed over there, but it is also riddled with forgeries like the ones we have shown here.

We have every right as hobbyists to expose this stuff.  There are a lot of people who care about ridding the hobby of forgeries, but very few of them go out of their way like we do to actually do something about it.

Like Steve mentioned before, other people criticize us for being "the cops" of the hobby, but what are we suppose to do, sit idly on the sidelines and do nothing?  That's what the sellers of forgeries want us to do and some of them use intimidation to get us to stop.

Amazon comes out with an advertisement using an obvious Derek Jeter forgery on a baseball and we're suppose to do nothing about it?  Seriously?

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Permalink Reply by CEE GEE on February 6, 2012 at 6:09am

If someone is not "the cops" of the of the hobby then the forgers will just continue to cash out on all the unsuspecting collectors that have not done the homework on what there purchasing...its a real shame... especially that this junk is out there still in such high numbers and people are still hanging up this junk on there wall thinking that got an awesome cheap Mantle or Jeter for a fraction of the real thing...the price should really be an eye opener...but unfortunately people see cheap numbers and think its a good piece...I feel an auto should ALWAYS be considered a fake until proven authentic...never assume something is good... especially from a website that is known for selling books...WOW

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 8:44am

This is incredible and only $3,111.95......

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 5, 2012 at 9:36am

Another Hall of Fake piece.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 9:53am

I'm a bit puzzled as to how Amazon works.  How is it possible that five different sellers are selling the same Jeter forgery? 

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on February 5, 2012 at 9:54am

its probably just a stock photo. you would think they would be smarter about it.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 10:09am

You would think each seller would use a photograph of the exact item the buyer will be receiving.   If that's Amazon's policy to use "stock photos" for sellers that sell similar items, then that has to change.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 5, 2012 at 10:27am

The items are on consignment to many vendors, like www.sportsmemorabilia.com.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 5, 2012 at 11:03am

The majority (if not all) of the items we are showing here, are all items that were removed from Ebay at one time or another.  We have seen the below Mickey Mantle (forgery) signed cap certed by Chris Morales on multiple websites.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 6, 2012 at 8:30am

Now look at this: It's being represented as being an MLB piece.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 6, 2012 at 9:17am

I got home this morning after watching my Giants beat Pats again over at my girlfriend's house and was checking out the Boston.com website and look what I found:

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