Wagner Bought on eBay for under $200 (video)

[bn2cardz]

I was curious if any news outlet ever acknowledge their mistake in running a story of a guy buying a fake when I ran across his brother's FB page that states "Everyone say a prayer for my brother! He will know if he has a real honus Wagner card worth up to $2,000,000 by 8:00am!" This was posted on the 18th. So Friday, the 19th, it seems Jason Mars should have had his answer. Yet there hasn't been a mention since the 17th. You would think that if it was real the news would be all over the answer that came in on the 19th "by 8:00am".

[bn2cardz]

Wow so his brother's post got me curious and found that Jason Mars has listed an auction on ebay purely to try and advertise this fake card:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1971-Topps-N...item2a43c7f6be

Also on top of that he was spamming the news agencies (along with ESPN) about the card prior to someone finally picking up the story. He was posting:

Honus Wagner baseball card found!!
The famous 1909 T206 honus Wagner baseball card has been found in sparks Nevada!! The rarest and most expensive card has been uncovered in sparks Nevada.amazing find

[bn2cardz]

...And anyone who thinks he is just a poor sucker that doesn't know what he is doing here is the evidence that he buys reprints to resell:

Bought Aug 18th a Gehrig listed as a reprint for $10.50:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1933-LOU-GEH...item1e9026c6f0

Then sells the same card Sept 6th missing any info about it being a reprint for $48.50:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Baseball-car...p2047675.l2557

[ullmandds]

but he's such a nice guy?!

[Brian Van Horn]

There's suspense about this?!

[chernieto]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

There's suspense about this?!

Suspense or not I find it very interesting.
Great detective work.

[Sean]

I never understand how these clowns think that they can sell a "Wagner" for $500,000 without any documentation. Do they think that everyone is as stupid as them?

When I said "they" I was including Cobb + Edwards.

[chipperhank44]

Wish I could have been there when the "local experts" were looking at it. Would love to see their method of authentication.

[CW]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I was curious if any news outlet ever acknowledge their mistake in running a story of a guy buying a fake when I ran across his brother's FB page that states "Everyone say a prayer for my brother! He will know if he has a real honus Wagner card worth up to $2,000,000 by 8:00am!" This was posted on the 18th. So Friday, the 19th, it seems Jason Mars should have had his answer. Yet there hasn't been a mention since the 17th. You would think that if it was real the news would be all over the answer that came in on the 19th "by 8:00am".

Interesting. I guess we have two winners here... the original eBay seller who got close to $200 for a reprint, and PSA who got some coin for the grading fee (isn't the fee $500 for a card of this magnitude?).