9 scandals already in only three weeks. Two multi-million dollar losses! Solid pace.
Jan:
1) BBCE Authenticated Case of 1st Edition Pokemon sold for $3.5M revealed full of G.I.Joe packs.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1500649
2) Group Breaker backyardbreaks gives away free box to customer, pulls $20K Trevor Lawrence card, doesn't deliver.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1502441
3) Marx cards stiffs PSA on ~$1M bulk submission, files bankruptcy, strands customers. Card Collector 2 implicated for sending through 2nd bulk submitter without disclosure. PSA looks to be returning cards ungraded. Gems Only also seems to be another middleman who can't pay.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1503473
4) Merchantman cards still selling vintage fakes through various online auction houses.
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=295520
5) Steve Grad says that many Panini Messi autos are counterfeit, but his employer BGS still grades them.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1502876
6) Carryover from 2021, hacked eBay accounts are posting hundreds of cards for sale at auction requesting you message them to BIN, but it's a scam. Whack-a-mole with these guys, since eBay deletes one account and another pops up in days.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1502167
7) Counterfeit slabs being passed at card shows in FL, NV, PA, TX. Suspects arrested in Dallas; one tased for trying to escape. Las Vegas Card Show, Industry Summit, Dallas, Bay Area Card Show Clearwater FL, Philly. Note: Latest news is that the Mike Baker sleeved Jordans are real and were graded by Baker in Dallas.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1502835
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsYXDVQA2eA
8) PWCC had a Premier auction end 1/22 and seconds before it closed, couldn't handle the traffic. Rather than extending the closing time an hour or so for people to get their last bids in, they extended for an entire day. This has been happening to a lot of online auction houses the past couple of years, getting hit by DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) hacks or just unable to even handle the traffic at the end of an auction. Goldin got hit by so many the last two years under their previous auction software subcontractor that they created their own new site, going through growing pains.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1503966
9) Goldin Auctions selling a 2001 PSA 10 Albert Pujols chrome rookie auto. Very likely to be wiped off and re-signed. Should be graded as a PSA AUTH card with PSA 10 auto, IMO. Currently at $97K with two weeks to go.
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1502551
Update: PSA reviewed the card and gave it a PSA 10 with 10 auto.