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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on January 1, 2016 at 9:11am

Christopher thanks for taking the time to post this.  Look at the prices for these items.  You have to be totally clueless to believe you can get authentic items of these people at these ridiculous prices.  I also wonder if ANYONE has ever paid GFA for an opinion.   Ebay is infected with this crap.  Not much more than a year ago, if you searched for Mantle autographs, a high percentage of them were authentic thanks in large part to Ebay;s EMR program and their attention to forgeries.  now the cancer is spreading and its out of control.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 1, 2016 at 9:18am

Thank you, Terrier, and this crap is totally out of control and Ebay is to blame for this mess.

They can easily place Stephen Rocchi and Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators on their Banned COA List, but they won't; they are more interested in the money they can profit from the sales of forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on January 2, 2016 at 7:19am

AND anyone to purchase more than a q-tip from F-BAY is a Jacka** for supporting the machine...stop buying anything from them PERIOD. Look at what they are doing to unsuspecting idiots. Unfortunately, the world is just full of them...If you buy so much as a Kewpie doll from that outfit, you can look at the person to blame right in the mirror.

The hobby took a u-turn 3-4 years ago and this nonsensical stuff from F-Bay has been ramping up for 2 -3 years or more. It is Grotesque on so many levels. They have clearly jumped the shark!  Keep buying from them minions...LOLOLOL

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Cibiak on January 2, 2016 at 3:19pm

Kind of makes you wonder, though - why would a forger, a confident one at that, not set themselves a higher starting bid, closer to what you'd expect them to be?  I mean, if they can see fools lining up to pay this much, why not go for the kind of price neighborhood a genuine piece would bring?  

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2016 at 3:28pm

Patricia, good question.

Because sellers of that crap know that the wannabe autograph collectors and suckers that purchase that crap, aren't spending a ton of money on autographs.  

They also know that those type of buyers get caught up in the frenzy of bidding.

Many of those sellers, as I have shown in the past, have shill bidders to bid up the price of their garbage.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2016 at 3:55pm

Also, Patricia, I don't know how confident those forgers are, but they do know that anything they scribble on item with a COA from Stephen Rocchi and GFA will be bid on and purchased by the wannabe autograph collectors, suckers and impulse buyers.

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