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Help! AAU Certified Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb Baseball and 14 HOFer Signed Induction Card Kicked Off eBay

I purchased through an auction house a signed Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb baseball and a HOF's signed induction card with 14 signatures. These items came with a COA from AAU, Drew Max, Pawn Stars authenicator. I put these on Ebay, only to be kicked off because their 3rd party authenticators said they were fakes. After some research, I found out that Ebay does not recognize "Forensic Examiners"...why. They are far more educated in this arena than those other so called experts. So I go to a well established auction house, they send those items out to PSA along with some others I know for sure are authentic because I have pics of the individuals signing the items. Not to my surprise, all but one comes back not authenticated. Even the ones I know are for real...so much for PSA. Anyway, I contacted AAU and the president, Marc Goldman emails me to give him a call, I do. He states that all the above forementioned items are real and that he will go to court with me to prove such. He also stated that Ebay had contacted them in 1997-98 to be their 3rd party authenticator, they turned them down...hence the snub on Ebay. He also stated that I should sell these with a clear mind, that I am not frauding anyone. So who do I believe? Oh, and the orginal auction house says that they sold me an authentic items. These items are worth, between 40,000 and 50,000 if real. So any adivice? I'm seriously thinking of hiring a lawyer. It's not about money, but principal.

Disgusted

Tags: PSA, aau, babe ruth, drew max, eBay, hof, induction, psa, ty cobb

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Permalink Reply by DOC LOUGHRAN on March 29, 2013 at 9:02am

did you get this from coaches corner?

i found your letter when i noticed they had a complte signed hall of famers card from opening day

of the hall of fame up FOR TWO AUCTIONS IN A ROW

doc

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Permalink Reply by Jordan W. on June 10, 2013 at 6:05am

Sounds like Ron might have consigned the piece to Coach's Corner?

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Permalink Reply by Jordan W. on June 10, 2013 at 6:04am

Hi everyone. I just joined your site. Found it by accident actually. I had just finished watching an old episode of Pawn Stars wherein the "fellas" purchased a Lou Gehrig "autographed" jersey from a guy for $3,000. One of the certs accompanying the jersey was from AAU. Cory Harrison claimed he bought the jersey because all of the certs came from "solid" sources. I didn't know who AAU was and was curious, so I googled searched it, found this thread and discovered it was "Mr. Magnifying Glass," Drew Max.

Totally enjoyed reading this thread. Poor Ron. (By the way, have Ron's posts been deleted?) I don't know how anyone could believe the 1939 HOF sheet was real. Like others have said, it's too clean. Too neat. Not to mention that most of the signatures look as if they were signed by the same hand. Too similar in structure.

I wanted to mention and perhaps it's already been mentioned in another thread (I haven't read through any others yet) that one of the newer Pawn Stars episodes, the "fellas" brought in Steve Grad of PSA to authenticate a Kiss gold record piece signed by the 4 members. Has he replaced Drew Max?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 10, 2013 at 6:14am

Yes, Steve Grad is now the official Pawn Stars go-to autograph guy according to press releases.

While I don't think anyone is shedding tears over the departure of the "Hubble-sized magnifying glass," the other guy from the card shop who did sports appeared to be credible and did a good job. Looks like he got crushed under the wheels of PSA.