suspicious 1924 Diaz Walter Johnson on Ebay
 

I was exuberant earlier today to find one of my dream cards listed on Ebay with a reasonable (or unreasonably low) BIN price. However, it appears to be a copy of the one auctioned off by Heritage a few years ago - identical (note the staining and paper loss) except that the punch hole has been filled in. Also, "lujoso" was changed into some chimera of that and "lunoso."

WOW - I just realized, as luck would have it, that I may have just dodged a bullet!

My wife and I had to leave the house at the crack of dawn this morning for an event we were committed to. Before leaving, I took a fast look at my new emails - I read the one from eBay pertaining to my "saved search" for "1924 Diaz" and saw this WaJo card at what I felt was a reasonable BIN price. I had only a few minutes to make a decision before leaving - half of me wanted to do the BIN for this card immediately, and the other half of me said to wait until I get home this evening and then make the seller an offer for this card - I went with the half of me that said to wait until I got home, and I now see that this card has been sold. FYI, the main reason I didn't pull the trigger this morning is that I already have an example of this card, but it has about 50% back damage from being pulled out of a scrapbook - so, this one on eBay would have been a nice upgrade for my WaJo collection.

Now then, it did seem a bit strange to me that a card of this magnitude was being sold raw, and I was planning to ask the seller if he would guarantee that this card would receive a numerical grade from SGC/PSA. Anyway, I now feel so much better about not pursuing this card this morning!
Val

Please explain what you mean by a copy....and also what lujoso and lunoso mean?

Thanks!

I mean someone took the scans from the Heritage auction, did a little photo editing to fill the hole in the card, and printed out a new one. Lujoso means luxurious (in this context it's describing the card album you can get to put the Diaz cards in). Lunoso isn't a word. The scammer didn't take the time to look up the word I guess.

You mean the image was scanned (printed) on grey card stock to look like an old card? That's messed up!

Scammers know no boundaries....

Did someone contact Ebay....which us why the seller pulled the card?