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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

We should probably suspend judgement until we know for sure this is the same JP Cohen, in spite of how obvious it appears that it is.

Having said that, it certainly sounds like the JP Cohen I know.

This is the one who never posted on the board until he made a post saying he needed me to contact him. He felt he was somehow trying to "out" me after he had not received auction items about 30 seconds after he paid for them. Of course, he failed to mention that he took over a month to pay for them and was bidding on behalf of a bidder who I had banned from my auctions.

Think about the "code of ethics" involved when someone who runs an auction house is willing to bid in another auction for a banned bidder.

This becomes more interesting due to how this story ended:

Because of the dollar amount of his auction wins (nearly six figures) and the importance of the cards, I was not comfortable shipping the cards. I told him I'd prefer to hand-deliver them, if possible. He said he had a friend here in Colorado that would be set up at a show in two weeks and I could give the stuff to his friend so he could pick it up at that show. Well, we came to this agreement after two weeks had already passed since the end of the auction. Two weeks after that I received a personal check from JP Cohen. ONE DAY later he asked me to give the auction items to his friend who was leaving for the show the next day. I said there was no possible way I would ever consider doing this, especially considering who he was bidding on behalf of.

I said I'd still be happy to personally deliver the items to his friend the following week or whenever his check cleared. He started threatening me with lawyers, etc. so I suggested an activity he could go do with his lawyer and told him he'd just have to wait until the National, which was about 6 weeks away at that point, to get his stuff. If he didn't like that he could come pick it up himself.

From what I remember he even called Leon to complain about me. Anyway, he finally agreed to allow me to deliver his items to his friend in Colorado, which I did the following day.

Any guess who his friend in the "Mile High" city was?

-Ryan