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eBay Bans Christopher Morales, Nicholas Burczyk Autograph Authentication

I just heard from eBay's fraud department that "court-approved forensic document examiners" Christopher Morales and Nicholas Burzyk have been banned by eBay!

Nothing offered with their authentication opinions is allowed, and will be removed—either automatically or upon notification.

Their names will be published on eBay's list of banned authenticators within the next two weeks—their Web department has a backlog of work, so it takes some time.

If you aren't familiar with Morales, read my article, Christopher Morales: The Forger's Best Friend

Thank you eBay!!!

 

UPDATE: EBAY'S LIST OF BANNED AUTHENTICATORS

eBay has updated their banned authenticator list to include COAs from Nicholas Burczyk, Christopher Morales and TTA Authentic (formerly STAT Authentic).

Here is the full list of banned authenticators:

Autographed items with COAs and LOAs, or references to COAs and LOAs from the following people or organizations.

  • Coach's Corner Sports Auctions LLC
  • Christopher L. Morales
  • Donald Frangipani
  • Forensic Document Services (James Bellino)
  • Hollywood Dreams
  • J. DiMaggio Co. / J. DiMaggio Company
  • Legends Sports Memorabilia
  • Nathan's Autographs / N.E. Autographs
  • Nicholas Burczyk
  • Pro Sports / Pro Sports Memorabilia
  • Robert Prouty
  • R.R.'s Sports Cards & Collectibles
  • SCAA / Front Page Art / Angelo Marino
  • Slamdunk Sportscards & Memorabilia
  • Sports Alley Memorabilia
  • Sports Management Group
  • Stan's Sports / Stans Sports Memorabilia
  • TTA Authentic (formerly STAT Authentic)
  • Universal Memorabilia
  • XMI Authentications
  • USA Authentics
  • Blank COAs and LOAs / COAs and LOAs as stand-alone items
  • COAs and LOAs from anyone listed on the FBI's Operation Bullpen website

More garbage with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.  Mass-produced Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams forgeries.  Laughable garbage.

More crap with a COA from Nicholas Burczyk.   Forged Mickey Mantle photo.  Laughable.  This forged Mantle (A Florida Forgery) comes with three worthless COAs; Nicholas Burczyk, GAI and My Favorite Players.

More garbage from Ted Taylor and TTA.  Forged Mantle, Williams and DiMaggio.

Laughable garbage (forged Mantle baseball) with a worthless COA from Forensic Document Services.

More garbage from Stat Authentic and Ted Taylor.  Mass-produced junk out of Florida.

Forged Mickey Mantle photo.

Mass-produced and laughable Mickey Mantle forged photo with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.

Look at all of these forgeries with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.  All garbage.  All Florida Forgeries.

Forged Mickey Mantle photo with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.  Mass-produced out of Florida. 

Forged Mickey Mantle with a worthless COA from Coach's Corner.

Forged Mickey Mantle photo with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.  This is a Florida Forgery.

Forged and ugly Mickey Mantle photo with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.

Laughable forged Mickey Mantle with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).

Forged Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).

Forged Mickey Mantle with two worthless COAs from Nicholas Burczyk and YMC Sports.

Laughable forged Mickey Mantle with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).

Forged Mantle and Williams with a worthless COA from Christopher Morales.  These are mass-produced forgeries out of Florida. 

Forged 500 Homerun Club baseball with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).  I will always have deep disdain for Ted Taylor.

Worthless COA from Stat Authentic and Ted Taylor.

Forged Mickey Mantle with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (on Ebay's Banned COA List).  Most of these forgeries are listed by sellers who borrow/steal a photo of a legitimate signing that The Mick did.

Forged Mantle with with worthless COAs from GAI and Burczyk.

Forged Mantle. 

Forged Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris with a COA from Christopher Morales.  Look at this crap!!!

Forged Mickey Mantle with a worthless COA from Forensic Document Services.

Mass-produced and forged Mickey Mantle photo.  Worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor who is on Ebay's Banned COA list).

Garbage and forged Mickey Mantle photo with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).

Look at this crap with a worthless COA from Frangipani.

Look at this laughable crap with two worthless COAs from Forensic Document Services and Big Apple Authentic.

Below is a mixture of crap "authenticated" by Burczyk and Morales.

Burczyk crap.

Garbage (forged Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig baseball).with a COA from Frangi.

Crap from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor).

Look at this garbage with a worthless COA from Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Forged Mickey Mantle baseball with a worthless COA from Stan The Man Sports.

Crap with a worthless COA from Stat Authentic.

Crap with a worthless COA from Front Page Art. 

We have never observed an authentic autograph with  COA from Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales and Nicholas Burczyk.

As we all are aware of, "Nicholas Burczyk" NEVER authenticated any sports autographs.  His name has been dragged through the mud by Mr. Florida and that's how his name has been attached to thousands of "Florida" forgeries.

There are zero authentic autographs with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.

Florida forgery with a worthless COA from Christopher Morales.

Immediately below is a link to my blog titled The Florida Forgeries.

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/the-florida-forgeri...

Look at this crap.

The majority of the "autographed" photos in this blog are Florida forgeries; they aren't even hand-penned by a forger.  They are basically copies produced on inkjet paper.

And as we all know Nicholas Burczyk never authenticated any sports autographs.  His name was used and dragged through the mud by Mr. Florida.

Crap with a worthless COA from Christopher Morales.

Crap with a COA from Stat Authentic.

Check out these Florida Forgeries with worthless COA's from Stat Authentic (Ted Taylor) and Nicholas Burczyk.

Look at these forgeries of Mantle, DiMaggio and Williams with a worthless COA from Forensic Document Services (James Bellino) who has been on Ebay's Banned COA list for over two decades.  Look at this laughable garbage.

Crap with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.

Look at this "Florida" mass-produced crap with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk, who, by the way, as we well know, never authenticated any sports autographs.  Mr. Florida has been dragging his name thru the mud for 20 years.

Look at this garbage with a worthless COA from Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Look at this crap (mass-produced "Florida" forgery) with a worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.  Nicholas Burczyk never authenticated any sports autographs as we all know.  Mr. Florida dragged his name through the mud by using his name to "authenticate" thousands of forgeries.

Look at this crap with a worthless COA from Chris Morales.  Notice the "pig on a lipstick" framing.  This most likely originated from the now-bankrupt AtAuction.com where they sold thousands upon thousands of forgeries to consumers and military personnel.   

Forensic BS COA.

Look at this crap.  Mass-produced forged Mickey Mantle with a COA from Burczyk.

The thing about Burczyk, is that Nicholas Burczyk never authenticated one sports autograph.

His name has been dragged through the mud by Mr. Florida.

Look at this crap with a worthless COA from Christopher Morales.

Morales, who is deservedly on Ebay's Banned COA List, has literally authenticated thousands upon thousands of forgeries.

Look at this crap with a worthless COA from Coach's Corner (Lee Trythall and Scott Malack).

Check out this laughable and forged Mickey Mantle baseball with a worthless COA from Christopher "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Look at this crap.

Laughable Mantle forgery with worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk.

Of course, there is no proof that Nicholas Burczyk ever "authenticated" any sports autographs.

Some dirtbag simply dragged his name through the mud by using his name with fraudulent COAs.

Look at this crap.

Typical "Florida" forgery that was mass-produced in the thousands.  

Typical garbage certed by Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Morales has "authenticated" thousands of forgeries.  Just "Forensic" BS!!!

Look at this crap!!!

The Chris Morales hologram.

Laughable forgeries.


 

Typical set of Mickey Mantle, DiMaggio and Billy Martin forgeries that are produced out of Florida.

Poor Nicholas Burczyk, who never examined one sports autograph, has had his name dragged through the mud for years and associated with the "Florida" forgeries.

More crap from Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Here's another laughable and forged Mickey Mantle photo.  This has a double-whammy.  Worthless COA from Nicholas Burczyk and hologram from Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales.

Tags: banned, burzyk, christopher, court-approved, ebay, forensic document examiner, morales, nick

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 25, 2011 at 6:08am
Very true, Jim.   I wonder how many people on Ebay actually know that there is a "Banned COA" list.  Very few people actually know where to find the "Banned COA" list on Ebay.  A friend of mine said to me that Ebay should provide a link to that "Banned COA" list any time a potential bidder clicks on a autograph auction.   The truth is autograph auctions that contain a COA on the banned list don't get automatically removed.  Someone has to report it for it to get removed.   And to Ebay's credit lately, they are doing a credible job in removing many bad autographs.  I will always give credit where credit is due.  Yes, a lot more needs to be done.  There is a lot of wrong that must be undone.  But it's going to take time.  Years of wrong takes a long time to undo but you have to start somewhere.
Permalink Reply by DB on February 25, 2011 at 6:38am

One of the best kept secrets on Ebay!  I can find that link faster on this site than I can on ebay...  it should be much more prominent and easier found on a search but it is far from it.

 

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/autographs.html

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on February 24, 2011 at 3:11pm
George, I can appreciate your comments and contribution here, but the problem is that those 80% have zero "signature education."  This has to stop at some point.   The banning of all Morales COAs is long, long overdue.  It is by no means excessive in my opinion; it is about time.
Permalink Reply by Lou reves on February 24, 2011 at 3:15pm
Again Travis is right on point! What is bad is that a hand full of people want to control a whole industry so they can inflate prices, as said a million times educate YOURSELF! Dont but an auto because it has a coa,buy it because of the autograph and know what you are buying, the people buying on ebay are not coming here for all their info they look around!
Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 25, 2011 at 6:40am
What you mean by "What is bad is that a hand full of people want to control a whole industry so they can inflate prices..."?
Permalink Reply by Rick Badwey on February 24, 2011 at 5:04pm
I have an autograph signed by the second cousin, once removed, of Mickey Mantle's brother-in-law, authenticated by Morales.  Would this be good?
Permalink Reply by George Papania on February 24, 2011 at 5:25pm
Does it come with  a certified D.O.A. Rick? <grin>
Permalink Reply by George Papania on February 25, 2011 at 5:14am

This is why I enjoy autographmagazine.com so very much.

And yes "Ya can't fix stupid" is sometimes justified in uneducated buyers.

I wish that even  the knock-offs and Gucci ect. items from tradekey

offshore items on Ebay had a WARNING. Not a BAN.

Valid concerns for our passion in collecting and dealings.

I am here 109% for all on this community and gladly share all I

can. I will agree to disagree on this one. I do believe a TOTAL BAN

by a non autographic forensic professional Specific company like

Ebay isn't the way.  It's not who to me, that they are banning,

rather their ability to judge. I am a non autograph Powerseller,

Safe harbor member, top rated paypal verified member for

over 10 years, (antiques) hence my problem with Ebay's control over

banning. I simply dislike any corporation the ability to BAN what they feel

is best me. Prehaps Ebay and James Spencer can just start a James Spence-BAY  auction

page and just herd all autographers to them. This could be potential now.

Again I appreciate these forums as we all dislike Forgers, all wish to protect the uneducated and ourselves,

and wish for good in our community. I guess if I'm told what I can and cannot decide to choose and have the ABILITY to potentially buy is my root of this .God Bless

George Papania

 

Permalink Reply by George Papania on February 25, 2011 at 5:48am

In conclusion for me , Great educated discussion and ideas everyone.

God Bless

George Papania

Permalink Reply by DB on February 25, 2011 at 6:04am

George - so very true on the discussion.  Just the other day a buyer of a bob marley found this site and was in shock that his ARA pruchased item doesn't appear to be authentic.  One has to go way over the line before you hit the banned list and as we know that doesn't stop the items from making it to ebay.

 

I have told the story of Stans Sport's Store - reputable for along time then came the $$$ for fakes and they were caught (and shut down) during the FBI now's famous sting operation.  They had some great stuff for many years and some baseballs appeared on ebay with stan's COA.  When I notified the seller his reaction was, " Now what do I do with all this stuff I bought from them?".   About a month later I happened to check into his auctions and there they were with "his" COA on them with a BS explanation of how they were obtained.  The stock he had may have been good but not all buyers are into authentication nor have the $$ to have it done on all items,,,,   at least it didn't have a Burzyk COA!

Permalink Reply by Jim McFiver on February 25, 2011 at 6:15am

 This Morales thing is huge to me as it's a vindication of all that is good about autograph collecting. Truth always shines the brightest light.

Acquiring and/or owning a signature is the closest many of us will ever get to history. Not only are we celebrating the joy of culture in our little neck of the hobby woods, we're also part of something that is noble, educational and, not to mention, pure thrill-seeker fun. 

My hat is off to Steve and Autograph Magazine for the site and forum.

All the best to everyone.
Permalink Reply by Kyle M. on February 25, 2011 at 12:12pm
If eBay did this then I expect Global to be banned next.  Ebay should have taken them off the "Approved Authenticator List" a long time ago.

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