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Ebay Seller Marimerle1 Sells Forged Signed Mickey Mantle Baseball 1994 World Series Baseball
When does an autographed Mickey Mantle baseball with the inscription NO 7 on a 1994 World Series baseball sell for $199.00?
When it's an obvious forgery.
Below is the forged Mickey Mantle baseball listed and sold by Ebay seller Marimerle1 for a whopping $199.00.
An authentic autographed Mickey Mantle with the inscription NO 7 on a 1994 World Series baseball would sell for at least $2,000.00.
If that was authentic, myself and another dozen of my autograph collecting friends would have bid on that baseball.
But, with Ebay so heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors and impulse, selling forgeries on Ebay is actually easier than selling authentic autographs.
Here is that forged Mickey Mantle baseball sold by Ebay seller Marimerle1 for $199.00.
What a waste of $199.00.
Here is the worthless COA.
Here is another forged Mickey Mantle baseball sold by Ebay seller Marimerle1.
Worthless COA.
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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on
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Congratulations! You have just been hammered buttwad.... It should say. 1994 was a great World Series too! Who was in that again? Oh Yeah The Morons vs. The Nimrods and it was a tie.
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Permalink Reply by Steve on
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Why would anyone want Mantle on a ball from a World Series that he didn't play in?
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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on
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another florida mess-terpiece. the never ending cess pool of crap.
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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on
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I continue to expose this garbage because it devalues the authentic autographs of true autograph collectors, but it also makes it difficult for sellers of authentic items to sell their autographs.
A few years ago, the now-disbanded EMR Team would have had this stuff removed, but Ebay, in my opinion, was losing too much from the sales of forgeries and that's why, in my opinion, the EMR Team was terminated.
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Permalink Reply by Marimerle1 on
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It has been brought to my attention that it is the opinion of one or more persons that the Mickey Mantle autograph on the Baseballs sold on EBay by me may not be legitimate. Whether the stated opinions here are accurate or not, I have immediately refunded the full purchase price to the buyers. I have conducted business honorably and had 100% positive feedback on Ebay since 2003. I do not want to do anything incorrectly or that creates any other perception. I assure you I will only offer autographed Items on Ebay in the future that I have re-verified for Authenticity.
I need your help with this question—is PSA/DNA the only authentication source acceptable to the collecting experts? Please let me know what authentication sources are acceptable in the market today. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Best Regards,
Marimerle1
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Marimerle, I first want to thank you for refunding the buyers money.
Not many people have done that in the past, and I personally want to commend you on your actions.
Secondly, I can assure you that the two Mantle "autographs" you sold are no-brainer forgeries.
Other legit TPAs are BAS (Beckett Authentication), JSA and SGC.
If it is your opinion that the Mantle sigs you sold are authentic, I guarantee that all of the aforementioned TPAs will deem them forgeries.
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Thanks for your reply. I will make sure everything I offer is re-verified by one of the authentication services you noted. Do you do authentication?
Thanks
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None of us here are "authenticators," but we are very knowledgeable and we all try to help each other.
So before you submit anything for authentication, ask us for help first.
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Before you submit anything for authentication, check with us first to see if it's worth getting authenticated.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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Marimerle,
Thank you for refunding the customer. That ball is a well-known forgery style. Unfortunately untold thousands have been sold.
A lot of our members don't care if the autograph is authenticated. They do it themselves and sometimes ask for opinions from other collectors. In sports, PSA, JSA and Beckett (BAS) are the most trusted in the marketplace.
Where did you buy it? What did you pay? As Chris said, your ball would be a bargain at what you asked if it was real. Real ones in that condition are worth 2-3 times that.
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The one with the inscription NO 7 on the 1994 World Series baseball would have easily sold between $1,500.00 and $2,000, if not more, if it was authentic.
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Permalink Reply by James on
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Christopher, I know the No. 7 inscription adds to the value of a Mickey Mantle signed baseball. But I don’t think it would bump up the value to nearly $2000. So it must be the inscription PLUS the fact that, if real, it’s signed on a 1994 World Series baseball...the Series that didn’t happen. I know Mantle died in 1995, so he could have signed some of these balls. But did he? And if he did, it must not have been a great number if one of these balls could be worth close to $2000. So then real ones of this ball are rare? Is that the case?
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