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Permalink Reply by Drew C on October 18, 2012 at 10:47pm

I'm no expert but a lot of his don't even look close to the real things... Gronkowski for instance... the first thing I notice is in almost every autograph the b at the end of Rob 99.9% of the time is a very distinctive point on his signature.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rob-Gronkowski-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-Signed-...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on October 18, 2012 at 10:52pm

Yeah, it doesn't even take an expert to call him out on his fakes.  I spotted the fake Matthews while looking through Packers memorabilia.  All the other footballs are signed in the same thick pen with the bogus "got it in person" disclaimer (hence incriminating him as the forger I would assume).  

Looks the number of not so smart bidders is limited at least.  If you look at his feedback, it looks like a lot of his stuff goes for $10 or under.

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Permalink Reply by Drew C on October 18, 2012 at 10:58pm

I figured out where he got his seller name from

In fact, the whole series of these was a winner

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Permalink Reply by Rich on October 18, 2012 at 11:03pm

Those are great!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on October 18, 2012 at 11:13pm

Hilarious! I posted them as images instead of links.

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Permalink Reply by Drew C on October 18, 2012 at 10:53pm

Ooh ooh, no manning fan either, but in my searches I've seen a few... a lot of the ones that came up as authenticated by 3rd party usually had a dot above his last name

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Permalink Reply by DB on October 19, 2012 at 1:47pm

are these actually Rawlings Official League Baseballs?   Seems we heard from Mike Frost about an influx of China Baseballs.

 

an official MLB from Rawlings;

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on October 19, 2012 at 3:34pm

Looks like Ebay removed all of their auctions.

Horrific forgeries from Ebay seller theinvestmentguru.

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