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Dave Ebay has made it a little more difficult to immediately report items. You do have to wait until the auction ends I'm pretty sure.
Did anyone see the phoney Cap Anson, and Tim O'Keefe Old Judges that were on a couple of days ago? I tried to get the sellers contact info to see whether it was a particular flea marketer that was just using a different name. Ebay is ridiculous in the sense they made me have to bid on the fake cards just to be able to get the persons contact information. I discovered that the seller was not the same person who had been trying to fool people in December into buying Ruth and Gehrig goudeys that were fake.
Pretty sure the text of the listing for the fake Old Judge cards was takenfrom one of the many "get rich quick on Ebay" programs. I saved the text from one of th fake Ruth auctions and both match up almost identically save a few word and phrase changes. the best line is when they tell you they bought these Old judge cards at a flea market or garage sale along with a large collection of other tobacco cards. they then pull you in by saying that they took them to a card show to be "evaluated", and the people at the show were "Excited" about the cards telling the seller that they are superb vintage replicas. the seller then writes that while they people at the show thought the anson and Keefe cards were replicas, that all the other cards were thought to be real and that the dealers made offers to buy the whole lot.The listing is vague enough to cover the seller legally most of the time, but phrased in a way to lead people to believe that these cards might just be the real thing....they even had thick cardboard pasted to them !! Anyway, you get the idea. If anyone wants the text of these auctions listed so that they can compare let me know and I'll post it. Incidentally, the seller told me they had many of these Old Judge cards including common players....so we have that to now worry about as well I guess.