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OT: EBay Reps Meet With Dealers/Sellers At 2018 National
From Rich Mueller, the editor of Sports Collectors Daily:
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...alers-at-nscc/ And my follow-up thread: https://live.autographmagazine.com/p...018-national-c |
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Great thread Chris. EBAY's concern for the customer and authenticity is a sham indeed.
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In my opinion, Ebay is the primary enabler of the "Florida" forgeries. It's amazing that Ebay can lie with a straight face when they say "Authentication at eBay in general, and not just this category, is near and dear to our hearts,” she said. “It’s a huge priority for us.” Last edited by thetruthisoutthere; 08-11-2018 at 10:43 AM. |
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That guy from eBay comes off as a clown in search of a circus.
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That's funny, Tom!!!
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You guys are wasting your time. Trying to stop the forgers is a never ending game of whack-a-mole. They just pop up again with a different account and a different COA.
The real solution is for people to stop buying their goods. They're in business because there is demand for what they sell. Once people become aware that 90% of autographs are fake, demand will drop, and they'll be out of business. The only real way to get the forgers to disappear is for buyers to become educated on the signatures they buy and to be more skeptical. Let's face it, most experienced collectors on this forum will never buy one of those shady autographs. It's only novices that buy them. I've never seen a marketing campaign aimed at increasing awareness of forgeries. Very few autograph buyers even know forums like this exist. Why is that? It's like the war on drugs. Everyone knows it's pointless to try to stop the supply. Look how that's worked out in the real world. Stop one druglord, and the next one is waiting to take his place. The real way to stop the drug cartels is for people to stop doing drugs. You stop the problem by shutting off the demand, not trying to stop the supply. If someone is willing to die to sell a bag of drugs, there isn't much of a deterrent that can stop them. Last edited by SetBuilder; 08-11-2018 at 11:20 AM. Reason: grammar |
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Aside from forums like this what can be done to stop people from buying forgeries?
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And I always come up with the same reply which is "I simply cannot just sit on the sidelines and do nothing." There are a few people in the hobby (Richard Simon, Shelly, Steve Z., Terrier, Steve Cyrkin and others) who have stuck their necks out exposing the bad guys. And at considerable risk to us. I have literally written over a thousand threads/blogs on the forgery industry. The majority of them have been directed at Coach's Corner (Scott Malack and Lee Trythall), Chris "I Never Saw An Autograph I Didn't Like" Morales, Ted Taylor (who I have deep, deep disdain for), Drew Max, Stephen Rocchi (Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators), the old GAI and others. It is "my time that I am wasting," not yours. |
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