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Posted By: leon

Before I went on vacation last week I got a call from Shelly Jaffe. We spoke a little bit and agreed and disagreed a little bit. I know he had issues before, and admits it, but seems like he is truly trying to help at this point. So be it. He told me to call a person at ebay and that they are enlisting some hobby folks to help clean up the Sports Card side of ebay with respect to obvious fakes and scams. I called and we spoke for quite a bit and I told J.G. I would be glad to help. I have a call into him today to let him know I am still up to doing it and was out last week. Basically I am going to email him with obvious questionable items (these won't be close calls) and he is going to email the seller to ask for more info, and if need be, shut the auction down. I feel this is a very positive thing ebay is doing and wanted to let folks know about it. He also asked about getting a few other folks to help but I was busy and didn't offer any names at the time. I assured him that if I emailed him then it would be almost positive the card is not good...like the red back Cobby - Drum on ebay now with a BIN of 15k. It is an extremely obvious reback job in a hacked PSA holder...At any rate I wanted to give some more positive hobby news..Ebay is trying to clean up a little bit.....regards