Oh Come On!!!

The auction ended for the fake Honus Wagner card that the seller with 0 feedback was selling and after 85 bids it ended at a winning bid of $3,000.02 by a buyer with 2844 feedback. I am dumbfounded at how many people would fall for this, but ignorance knows no bounds.

How do we follow this up? The same 0 feedback seller has posted 2 more “original” 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner cards. One in a sealed pack, looking exactly like the one that just sold for $3,000 but not graded, and one from an opened pack that somehow still has the tax stamp still attached in tact. 

So somehow this guy has three mint Honus Wagner cards and instead of getting them graded by a reputable grading company and sell them through a reputable auction house where the seller could have made millions, they sell them ungraded (GAI is basically ungraded) and will make a couple of thousand and these bidders do not question a thing? 

At this point I no longer worry about the bidders, none want to do their research and are willing to get burned. This is on them right now, the seller is criminal, but victims are lining up to pay the fee to get ripped off. Even if I reported the cards I have no proof they are fake, so I wouldn’t expect eBay to do any investigation. This is money for them too, no reason for them to pull an item without proving it is as reprint being listed as real.

A follow up on the other counterfeit Honus Wagner graded by PRO that sold last week for $1,850, it has been relisted with an opening bid of $1,499.99 (no bids)