Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if any of you has dealt in the past with Canadian seller "international2013-2013" on eBay in the past. They currently have a few Expos items that I was interested in, but after doing a bit of digging, I'm fairly certain the items are forgeries.

First item "1981 Expos" signed baseball ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/391485216930 ).

Issues for me:

1) Dick Williams & Tim Raines signatures look bad. I didn't check on the others (Carter, Dawson, et al) once I found out...

2) Baseball was manufactured in 1986.

Second item "Wayne Gretzky" signed stick ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/391485244064 ).

Issue is simply that it looks off.

Third item "Gary Carter" signed baseball ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/391485201687 ).

Issue is somewhat on my end. I've never been good with Carter, but the end of the name looks too elongated from what I've seen in the past.

Fourth item "1990s Expos" signed baseball ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/401138212529 ).

1) Baseball seems to be signed by 1987 team.

2) Signatures are smearing, which might make it bad, even if good. Both of these issues also make sense given the 1987 date and Taiwan manufacturer. The Expos used a Taiwan company for its organizational logoballs (all levels) in 1987.

Fifth item "1990's Astros" signed baseball ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/401138200408 ).

Main issue is the Yogi, which looks bad to me.

Those five are making me highly leery of the items I actually want, which are the game used hockey sticks.

Thoughts very much welcome.