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runscottI informed "drbond" that his cards were reprints and he went off - lawyer threats, libel, slander, every 4-letter word he could think of.
He finally settled down and sent me a copy of an ebay transaction showing that he paid over $600 for it under a different ebay i.d. from "fluffylynx" (second link below). His logic apparently is that since he bought it as "real", then it's fine for him to sell it as "real", even though he now knows from the feldman234 link I provided him that it's an "old replica". But, of course, he said that he doesn't think the scans look the same - this guy is simply amazing!
Oddly, fluffylynx also used the same scans from the feldman234 auction, as did drbond. Feldman is selling multiple '33 Ruths, for example, using a single scan, and then people like fluffylinx and drbond are re-selling them as "real", using the same exact scan! These people are in such a hurry to get rich quick, and so damned lazy, that they don't even bother to scan the reprints once they receive them! ...or do they ever actually receive them?
Well, it looks like drbond actually paid over $600 for the '33 Ruth forgery, and now he's probably wondering how he can get his money back. But rather than seeking legal recourse against fluffylynx, it looks like instead he will try to re-coup his losses from some other poor schmuck. While illegal and fraudulent, this practice has become the new "American Way". BTW, no - drbond has not cancelled his auction, despite now possessing all the proof he needs that he is selling a forgery.
Here are links to the three iterations of the same card, all incredibly using the same exact scan!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31722&item=2712488347
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2713890177
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31722&item=2714474224