Fake T206s on eBay

[Leon]

How awesome is that? Everyone one of these "not reprints" has exactly 50/50 centering. That's almost unbelievable.

[gawaintheknight]

So here we see reasons not to buy raw cards, while on other threads in this forum I see reasons not to trust third party graders which leads me to conclude that I shouldn't buy graded cards either. My options seem to be to either become an expert myself or stay away from anything valuable/rare enough to be worth the effort of forging/repairing/etc. Is that about right? Because even for me putting together 1988 Topps sets over and over is going to get boring pretty quick..... :-)

[z28jd]

I wrote this seller and told him both of his T206 cards were reprints, explaining what was wrong with them. I usually do it if I see the seller has good feedback, because that makes me think it isn't someone trying to pull one over, they just don't know what they have. Well he didn't answer my Ebay message and now this one has a bid, so the guy is apparently a jerk. Feel free to report him or write him

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-1911-T2...item487baded7b

[trdcrdkid]

That Perdue card looks like somebody soaked it in tea or something to try to make it look old. Another obvious reprint, at least to people who have seen a few real T206s, but I guess there are enough suckers out there to make it worthwhile for these scammers.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I wrote this seller and told him both of his T206 cards were reprints, explaining what was wrong with them. I usually do it if I see the seller has good feedback, because that makes me think it isn't someone trying to pull one over, they just don't know what they have. Well he didn't answer my Ebay message and now this one has a bid, so the guy is apparently a jerk. Feel free to report him or write him

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-1911-T2...item487baded7b

I think someone just lost 20 bucks.