Opening and sorting junk wax packs for the duration of their sentence.

Super happy for Daryl, Powell, and the other winning bidders to have the option to close out their deals. Happy for ML and the consignors too.

Absolutely! They just couldn't wait for it to play out and let people do THEIR job(s)! Always have to jump to conclusions because they THINK they have the right to know everything!

I was thinking a nice little prison cell. I’m not sure anyone deserves the Best Western, after all :D

Two cards still missing. The story lives!!!

Wouldn't that be considered cruel and unusual punishment?

Plus, of course, that the later recovery of the items does not change that they hosted a fake auction for items they did not have. I’m not sure if folks just do not understand the actual objections or are willfully ignoring the actual objections made to try and frame it as if eventual recovery is contradictory to the dissenters statements and proof positive that those against the undeniable lies are inherently wrong.

Too bad you didn’t join a couple of months sooner.

I hear you. You’re preaching to the choir. There will still be certain people repeatedly screaming that everyone else is a blowhard without recognizing the irony in what they say.

recovery of stolen cards
 

First and foremost, GREAT news on the recovery of the stolen cards. I
look forward to a much more thorough explanation of events.

Idea for punishment of thief- he must serve all the Old Fashioneds and Ambien
combos to RepublicaninMass before he posts his ridiculous comments. On
second thought, that's cruel and unusual... Jail time must suffice!

Trent King

Is that your coping cocktail Trent?

I was thinking more like whisky and Metamucil

Yes fake!! They never owned them, the whole thing was made up with fake photos! Fake fake fake

FRAUDULENT according to our armchair attorney A Dum Guy, esq.

Yes we are the world!! Kumbayah!!!

I'm going to peruse the catalog again to see the fraudulent items I didn't bid on, but passionately argue my views on and demand justice!

JUSTICE!!!

Recovery of the cards is great for the consigners and the winning bidders. But it changes nothing about whether or not ML made unwise and/or unethical decisions along the way.

Reminds me of why poker can often be so profitable. Player A turns a straight and moves all in for $10k with one card to come in a $1k pot. Player B has a flush draw and calls the $10k bet. River card brings the flush. Player B celebrates and half the table tells him he made the right call because he caught his flush.

Are you okay? You’re so over the top in this thread it’s weird, invoking religious prejudice, your class bullshit, constant willful misstatement of what you’re arguing against. Why are you taking this so personally and lashing out so nonsensically?

Good news is they have plenty of money now to pay for the poorly scanned Gehrig.

Where did you see that 2 cards are still missing? The email that was sent doesn't say anything about that.

Yes, a regular Best Western, and NOT a Best Western Plus.

Pot...the kettle is calling :rolleyes:

I’m just going off of SCD.

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...overed-arrest/

Yes, show me my statements supporting religious bigotry and classism. Go ahead, find them.

Thanks. They left that out of the email they sent.

From the SCD article: Jacob Paxton, 27, of Brunswick, OH, was arrested Wednesday and is facing felony theft charges.


Leon, no Net54 membership for this fellow!

Glad they tracked down the cards (52 of the 54) and made the arrest. On a side note, I am positive that Memory Lane has revised their 'shipping to event' procedures.


brianp(arker)-beme

Pretty amazing. For anyone not interested in the article it sounds like he tried to sell a few to a local dealer.

Memory Lane expects to receive the stolen cards fairly soon and will allow the winning bidders to complete payment if they desire.

Return Fed Ex?

I don't always use the opinions of others, but when I do, I use the ones of net54 dimwit posters

I am extremely pleased to report that my E105 Cobb was among the recovered cards.

Hoping the 14 Matty was recovered as well!

The article said the two missing cards had a value of $90,000, the Matty went for $145,000 so I think he's safe.

Also pretty sure the culprit will do everything he can to get the location of those two cards to the police. Anything to mitigate at this point.

For the most part, the final resolution is about the best that could have been hoped for.

The consignors get the value they deserved, the bidders get the cards they wanted at the price they were willing to pay, the auction house gets their commission, and most importantly, the thief will likely spend some significant time in jail.

The thief will probably get more followers on social media

That is freaking awesome. Great news!!
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Many thanks, Leon.

Glad to hear this story has a happy ending.

I guess we will find this perp got a hold of the package.

Thankfully, those landmark cards are not lost to the hobby; that would have been a shame.

It figures ML silence had to be related to the investigation - happy they're able to make (nearly) everyone whole again.

Not a bad day for law enforcement in the hobby. This recovery, and the Anthony Curcio fake PSA slab arrest (https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...ver-2-million/).

That's an awesome story, glad to see federal law enforcement focused on protecting the little guy.

o further their alleged fraud scheme, Curcio ordered several items necessary to create forged card cases and labels to pass off the cards as graded, court documents allege.

They included plastic holders, thermal transfer barcode labels, a magnifier loupe optical glass, a handheld inkjet printer, a lock-cutting kit, an electric grinding pen, an abrasive buffer and polishing wheel, an abrasive and bristle brushes and drill bits designed for engraving, prosecutors said.

“Anthony Curcio and Iosif Bondarchuk carried out a brazen, nationwide fraud scheme involving valuable sports and Pokémon trading cards to deceive buyers and marketplaces, ultimately amassing over $2 million in fraudulent and attempted sales,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “Curcio and Bondarchuk allegedly sold and tried to sell at inflated prices cards of various professional athletes, including, among others, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Nolan Ryan, Larry Bird, Julius Erving, and Magic Johnson, as well as various valuable Pokémon cards.

Hmmmm.. I bet it's a lot more than $2 million if it went on for years.

:D

Curious if you still are paying the BP.

That's great news!
That was my biggest concern, that the thief would have dumped the cards when he felt the police closing in.

In a perhaps ironic twist, this isn't Curcio's first runin with the law either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Curcio

Summarized life of crime story, if the same person:

1. Gambling business gets shut down by local authorities for no permitting
2. Next forges prescription labels (apparently practice for PSA flips)
3. Then Burn Notice-style robs armored truck security guard of $400K in BoA cash (spends 6 years in prison where he pens 20 kids books and a multi-award winning memoir on his addiction and robbery) then makes a business out of inspirational speaking akin to ‘Catch me if you can’
4. Now expands career (age 43) to a $2MM+ sports/Pokemon card PSA holder manipulation scheme

Prediction for his next book: ‘It’s a Hard Knock Life, Steal From Others to Ease the Strife’

Awesome news!! Glad the cards were recovered!

Ans it's all searched racks and cellos, they get an hour off for any hyped rookie they find from each set.

Great job, Strongsville PD!

+1

The thing that stood out in the story to me, was this one sentence: PSA says its Brand Protection division worked with the FBI during the investigation. The focus there has never been about the end user but always about the impact on the brand and doing whatever possible to protect it. They keep details of crimes like this very quiet even after arrests have been made. People cheer someone is going to jail meanwhile, in this case, it is not clear if all of the fake holdered cards were confiscated.

My guess is they've been widely sold into the marketplace by now, and if WIWAG and Copperfield (Mexican fakes) are any indication, the public will never know which cards are involved.

On behalf of all those in the Set Registry, I want to thank PSA for protecting the brand! Well done.

Me thinks that people place way too much trust in some of these protected brands.