Ebay seller sportsnmore9999 - sells A LOT of fakes every day

Hi everyone!

How can this seller be allowed by eBay to continue to rip-off MANY buyers every day?

For example: Bryan Adams autographs is one of the hardest to obtain, it's my understanding that he more or less hates writing autographs and have done so for several years. The few genuine ones that comes up for sale costs a nice sum!

Still this seller has a never ending supply, listing at least one new every day (along with several other big names) for a fraction of the price that genuine ones cost.

AML member Syreena Sexxton wrote the following about this scammer in Steve Cyrkins forgery industry thread: "he averages about $5000 daily, or $1,825,000.00 ANNUALLY". By selling fakes, that makes me sick!!

Here's a link to his/hers eBay shop: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=20001&...

PS. I already know the answer to my question above: eBay only cares about the selling fee and they make more money from fake autographs than genuine ones. But this is just disgusting...

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Permalink Reply by RJ on July 19, 2017 at 10:03am

I wanted to make a post about this seller also. It's sickening.

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Permalink Reply by Tim on July 19, 2017 at 10:21am

I got a Bryan autograph after he did the juno's in my hometown. It had to be personalized... he wrote my name super big then his autograph was complete jibberish, just a bunch of bumps.

Does this seller autographs pull off good fakes, hence why so many people buy from him? Or are they blatantly obvious to those experienced?

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on July 19, 2017 at 10:56am

Unfortunally it doesn't have to be good forgeries. As long as the item description says that the seller got them himself people on eBay will buy them. A LOT of naive people out there...

And if the seller has nice communication and ships fast, he will get a good feedback since the buyer doesn't know a thing about the autograph itself!

And this seller is smart. He/she avoids the biggest name since they will draw attention, instead he/she sells MANY $20-$70 autographs that flies under the radar so to speak.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on November 25, 2017 at 6:21am

Unfortunately, Tim, Ebay is heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors and impulse buyers.

Also, people have this preconceived notion that Ebay filters out all forgeries.

In my opinion, it is just the opposite. Ebay encourages the listing and selling of forgeries by doing nothing about removing them

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Permalink Reply by Bjorn VDB on July 19, 2017 at 11:26am

It's just disgusting. I don't understand how you can look in the mirror like that knowing you rip people off on a daily basis.

And I always wonder, are none of these buyers ever study these signatures? It's unbelievable.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on July 19, 2017 at 11:46am

I agree, makes you wanna puke...

I think that many autographs are bought as a present. A wife or parent for example wants to give a cool gift and then does a one-time search on eBay, finds this seller and his autographs, looks at his great feedback and press the buy now button.

Since 99,9% of the population know nothing about how filthy the autograph business is, why should they not?

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Permalink Reply by marc e on July 19, 2017 at 6:27pm

bryan has always been uptight about autographs and people ,very true

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on July 20, 2017 at 7:23am

Exactly, there's simply no way ANY dealer could have so many Bryan Adams, it's not possible!

Pure logic should be enough for eBay to act, unfortunally all they care about is profit...