OMG. horrible forgery seller.

[GrayGhost]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I just reported that ball. ALL his items are bad, and w an unacceptable authenticator. I reported that as well. Ebay needs to get their act together. Id say.

[mr2686]

WOW...that is bad!

[GrayGhost]

EVERYTHING he has is fake. A Rod looked like he "signed" in the middle of a stroke. just horrible.

[Scott Garner]

That's a terrible fake Jeter! Look how many bidders (16!!)- what a shame that people are so easily duped........

[Forever Young]

Those are some of the worst I have ever seen....it would be better if they didn't even looked at what the real one looked like and signed it with block letters.
Ebay does nothing anymore...

[GrayGhost]

Nice Peyton Manning ball too. FAKE OR NOT..YOU CANT EVEN SEE THE AUTOGRAPH!!!!!!!!!!!

Ebay needs to police things better. Spend some of their mucho dinero and hire someone qualified to look at listings of autographs specifically for this reason. Tom Tresh 2 videos and the members of Net 54 and other people can only do so much. Idiots buy and Idiots sell too, when it comes to this garbage.

If ebay allows ANY of these guys autographs to be sold, then they have NO right to comment when they pull any autograph.

[ptr002]

What about the quality Brett Farve. What a joke!!!

[DaveH]

Here's an article I found when I Googled Stan's Sports Memorabilia.

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Friday, October 08, 2004
Stan's Sports Memorabilia Faces The Music
Here is an article from eSCD regarding the forgery mill, Stan's Sports. It saddens me to think about all the people that have "treasures" framed on their walls with no idea they are fake. As the article indicates, Stan's is responsible for selling up to $7 million in forgeries... that's a lot of fake autographs sitting in collections.

I'd love to see Stan and his whole crooked family rot in jail.


GUILTY PLEAS ENTERED IN FORGERY CASE
A prominent purveyor of fake autographs is close to facing justice as the Fitzgerald family – Stan, his wife Donna and mother Josephine – pled guilty Sept. 30 to felony charges stemming from the sale of forged sports memorabilia. The Fitzgeralds, from Caldwell, N.J., and operators of Stan’s Sports Memorabilia during the 1990s, pled guilty to the charges in San Diego federal court, home of the FBI’s Operation Bullpen investigation, which has been overseen by San Diego-based FBI agent Tim Fitzsimmons.

The Fitzgeralds were charged four and a half years after Bullpen’s primary raids shut down their business and more than 50 others on Oct. 13, 1999. For a variety of reasons – among them the work-flow crunch on federal prosecutors – the Fitzgeralds almost “walked” despite almost five years of fake-autograph sales and anywhere from $2.5 million to $7 million in fake-autograph revenue, as a five-year statute of limitations loomed this month. But assistant U.S. attorney Melanie Pierson was able to get charges filed in April.

Stan Fitzgerald, 37, pled guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud. Because of the dollar amount involved, he faces a federal guidelines recommendation of 70-87 months in jail, along with a fine. Donna Fitzgerald, also 37, pled guilty to aiding and abetting tax evasion, admitting she failed to declare $100,000 in income from the sale of counterfeit memorabilia. She faces a recommended 12-18 months in jail. Josephine Fitzgerald, 61, pled guilty to assisting the preparation of false tax returns with federal guidelines recommending 10-16 months in jail.

Sentencing is set for Jan. 10, and Judge Larry Burns made it clear the sentencing judge does not need to follow the guidelines. “He may follow the recommendation, he may listen to your counsel, he may listen to Ms. Pierson, but he’s not bound to do that,” Judge Burns said. It’s very possible that each of their sentences could be lighter than even the lowest recommendation jail term, especially for each woman.

Unfortunately for collectors, while assets seized from the Fitzgeralds were valued in an FBI press release at more than $2 million, only $19,326 in restitution was ordered. At this point, the restitution will only be available to the seven victims who assisted Fitzsimmons and Pierson during this specific investigation and, according to Pierson, have items the FBI has been able to confirm were forgeries. In other words, there will very likely not be a method of applying for restitution for those victims who are not contacted by the court, although Pierson suggested collectors who believe they have a claim for restitution can contact the Victim/Witness Coordinator’s office at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego for instructions on how to proceed.

Stan’s Sports Memorabilia sold both real and fake memorabilia, the latter being primarily provided by the Marino family, the well-documented group that included the forgers and several of the key distributors of the fake material. Stan Fitzgerald told the judge that he sent items to an address in San Diego to have the phony signatures applied, but didn’t know the specific person performing the forgery. “(I) utilized the service. At the time, I did not know (where the forger was),” Fitzgerald told the judge. The Fitzgeralds sold a wide variety of fakes from both current players and deceased legends during the period from November 1995 to October 1999. Along with those fakes came bogus certificates of authenticity.

Both Donna and Josephine Fitzgerald admitted to the judge they knew Stan was selling fake autographs.

Along with still-unspecified fines, back taxes and the restitution, the Fitzgeralds will forfeit their two primary Caldwell homes, plus a third residence that Donna told the judge they purchased about a week after the October, 1999, raid on their business.
– Rocky Landsverk, reporting from San Diego

Posted by Steve at 2:42 PM

[GrayGhost]

Thanks for the article. Ebay better pull EVERY item in that auction.

[khkco4bls]

i didnt know derek jeter had parkinsons disease.

[khkco4bls]

what blows my mind is that people bid on these items.

[cbcbcb]

Thankfully eBay actually removed the listing. I also reported it and I sent him a message. I am not sure if his other listings were removed.

[Scott Garner]

Nice! Good job Chris.

[Jim VB]

2 of the seller's 12 auctions have been taken down. He's not happy and blames us!

Email #1:

"i am not worried about some 2nd class website talking about my listings, this is not a career of mine, I am just selling some things around the house.


- niahparker21"



Email #2

"It is you who is talking about me. If you do not remove my auctions from that forum I will be suing for defamation. This is not a battle that you should start. If I see or read anything involving me or my sales in anyway I will be taking immediate legal action.


- niahparker21"

[GrayGhost]

Let him take legal action. His stuff is all 100pct FAKE FORGED CRAP. I emailed ebay to remove everything, as its all fake and with a bad COA. IF this guy is getting upset at anyone, including any of us, let him. He'd lose any attempted lawsuit. The ball as I see it is in Ebay's court.

[Jim VB]

11 of his 12 auctions have been taken down by Ebay. Only the Favre ball is still up.

Looks like Ebay did it correctly this time.

[GrayGhost]

Good. lets hope this is a precedent for so many rotten sellers/items

[Jim VB]

Just checked and the last auction is gone as of tonight.
Pretty nice job by Ebay. Too bad their fight is neverending. He'll probably have a new name and new auctions in no time.


Guess this means we'll all be getting sued... LOL!

[GrayGhost]

Let him sue. They won't get nothing but sand out of me, and hopefully these scum will get a lot more than that, trouble wise.

[Robextend]

Countersue for emotional distress to this forum!