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Posted By: John

I'm an autograph guy and well aware of the fraud that surrounds the fine San Jose auction site. I feel that steps are in fact being made to eliminate some of the fraud as bad pieces seem to be disappearing from the database before the auction ends. Perhaps there is a task force out there watching over the site. I was recently asked to find a colleague a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card and was able to find 7 or 8 (this was a couple weeks ago) but only 2 that I felt comfortable with and they were priced out nicely. The others were at between $100-350 and the seller made it a point to the general public that 'it looks authentic to me' and of course didn't offer a refund if it was a 'fake'. Does anyone know if eBay is doing anything about this kind of fraud? After seeing this, I found a couple of really nice T206 Honus Wagner's that...of course the seller wasn't exactly sure if they were authentic or not but managed to pull in several bids.

Note: I'm not stupid enough to fall for a 1952 Mantle for a few hundred bucks and I'm not one of those morons that think you can get a nice Ruth cut for $300. I do have a brain and most certainly passed on the 'it's too good to be true' scenario.