Fake 52Topps mantle on Ebay

[deucetwins]

Originally Posted by ATP

The current seller and board member still can probably push this one back through eBay against the person he bought it from. Looks like it has been just about 60 days. I look at 52 mantles a lot, and now that I think about it I have seen several a year like this, very low grade and odd looking, psa 1, framed up with cheap item autographs.

So is the bigger issue here PSA slabbing obvious fakes? Or are the scammers using counterfeit slab cases and photoshopping the PSA label. Couple of other questions to consider: 1) Is there anyway to cross-check the barcode and/or cert. # with PSA? (again, I know this could be photo shopped from another like-card for sale on eBay), 2) PSA's slabs are supposed to be sonically sealed. Any way to check this?

Chuck, I know you buy the card not the grade, but the TPG's have to be able to provide some assurance to prospective buyers or else why have TPG's at all?