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eBay tells me...."They allow forgeries" I'm NOT JOKING GUYS.

I brought up eBay seller: this-n-thatsportscollectiblesplusmore the other day and after going through his account and calculating how much money he has made on forgeries, I decided to call eBay yesterday. After being transferred around, I finally get a hold of someone in (Fraud Resolution) and this person seemed to have knowledge of autographs.

At any rate, I firstly explained my frustration with eBay allowing forgeries to constantly be sold on their site and how it seems that eBay has a serious lack of concern in relation to the problem of forgeries being sold on their site.

HIS RESPONSE: The Fraud Department does its very best to weed out easily identifiable forgeries and those of higher valued items by using Third Party Authenticators to look at items that have been reported. However, it is the buyers responsibility to do their own research before bidding

I then asked why Global Authentication is still an eBay approved authenticator with their reputation of authenticating thousands and thousands of forgeries on a monthly basis.

HIS RESPONSE: I will have to defer on that question because I don't have an answer for you. I will pass that comment along to the fraud department.

I then brought up seller this-n-thatsportscollectiblesplusmore who has sold over 250,000 $$$ dollars in forgeries all authenticated by Global Authentication. I explained that I go in weekly to report his items, yet they never get removed.

HIS RESPONSE: In order for an item to be removed it must be reported by multiple eBay users.

SO AFTER THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION, I feel that eBay is very passive on forgeries. Based on this conversation, it honestly seemed to me that they don't give a rats tail if people sell forgeries.

LET'S DO THIS...GO TO this-n-thatsportscollectiblesplusmore and report every item you think is fake. Let's just see if we all report if eBay will do anything about him. He has sold over 1,000 Tom Brady signed Helmets and Footballs and I have reported EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. By myself NONE OF THEM HAVE EVER BEEN REMOVED. Let us see if as a team, we can get action. So go look at the autographs you feel are fake and report them. Will it get a response out of ebay?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on October 26, 2014 at 6:55pm

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on October 26, 2014 at 7:00pm

Ebay seller Bear7171 has sold at least two dozen Muhammad Ali forgeries, and numerous Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio forgeries.....

$34.00 for this beauty of a Mickey Mantle forgery.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Autographed-4X6-photo-matted-and-on-plaque-...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on October 26, 2014 at 7:26pm

He used to be rayburn2767.

I think Bear deserves to be memorialized with his own discussion. If you feel like doing it Chris, please do.

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Permalink Reply by Null on October 27, 2014 at 6:36am

The Florida Mantle is magically "evolving"...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on October 27, 2014 at 6:47am

They just keep slightly "distorting" the same base templates they use to make it look like different signatures.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Iam on December 8, 2014 at 1:00pm

Did this Bear7171 guy ever get his own discussion?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Poulos on October 26, 2014 at 8:30pm

So let me get this straight. This guy who was telling me about all the forgeries PSA passes is actually a forger? It makes sense now. It all makes perfect sense. He took my discussion on my concerns with JSA and I made the comment that I trust PSA 500% more than JSA and then he tells me they are both garbage. hmmmmm.....

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on October 26, 2014 at 10:28pm

I think he's selling forgeries, not necessary forging them. The Mantles and DiMaggios come out of Florida. I'm not sure where the Ali forgeries come from.