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Baseball card set collectors: Beware of master forger, ebay seller lock-em-up-bob

This guy has been at it for years. He takes complete sets of baseball cards, usually 1980-1992 Topps, and will forge the entire set. Then he will list the forgeries individually preying on autograph set collectors. He will often auction off a 5-6 different cards of a Hall of Famer with the same picture of himself posing w/the player in each auction. Each forgery is signed perfectly on each card, many times with hard to come by inscriptions. One of bob's special's are dual/triple signed 'Team Leaders' cards. He claims he gets all the autographs he sells at spring training or hotels, which is a LIE!!! TPA's will not pass his forgeries from what I've seen. Do NOT bid on his crap! He works closely with another scammer, ebay seller samsobo. They both are part of a South Florida forgery ring!

This is NOT an authentic Ryne Sandberg

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Permalink Reply by B Martin on January 9, 2015 at 3:53pm

I believe lock-em-up-bob is now selling under ebay id us-cable2014. I am seeing some of the same style forgeries for Don Sutton, George Brett, Lee Mazzilli. Similar item description. Similar way of leaving feedback. lock-em-up-bob hasn't sold anything since December 22nd. About the same time this us-cable2014 started selling stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Dom Vito Castiglione on January 9, 2015 at 4:06pm

You are right. That is Bob's new ebay account

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Permalink Reply by Dom Vito Castiglione on January 9, 2015 at 4:09pm

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GEORGE-BRETT-amp-BILL-BUCKNER-1981-TOPPS-ca...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STEVE-CARLTON-HOF-STEVE-STONE-1981-TOPPS-au...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Gruber on January 9, 2015 at 4:14pm

Thank you for posting this. Even the item description is close to what he used to write. However, the city he uses in the description is two hours away from where he really lives.