Frank prisco dealings (chris lewis) piedmont sport dealings

[prewarsports]

E mail sent

[btcarfagno]

I contacted Liveauctioneers after winning a US Caramel Ruth card several months back. I smelled a rat before sending payment and eventually saw that the scan came from Heritage Auctions. I told Liveauctioneers about it but not sure they did anything about it.

Tom C

[nsaddict]

There was another posting about this guy in the sports water cooler section recently. Perhaps they could be combined? And if I remember correctly, there was a thread several years where Franks attorney posted. Ordering a cease and desist otherwise legal action would be taken.

[thecatspajamas]

I seem to recall that name/company combo being posted about here in the past with some shady dealings. On the autograph sub-forum perhaps? Something About an impossible Ruth-signed dollar bill IIRC. This would have been at least a couple of years ago. Sounds like he's been at this quite a while.

[buymycards]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ghlight=prisco

[lug-nut]

long story short, had won a $5k cobb card, received a $500 cobb card. a fellow board member, brian, had suspected, searched and found some similar issues here on the net and the internet and warned me so i opened the package under video surveillance at the post office. when chris was "surprised" he said send it back and i informed him it was being held as evidence.

i was fortunate enough to have dealt with criminals over the past 25 years and gave him ultimatums to file a case. he sent me a check which bounced and after several delays i told him i was filing a criminal case and informing the PA insurance commission (Frank runs an insurance company) he offered me another cobb as temporary payment. after several more delays and realizing i'd never see my $ and would cost too much of my time and $ to file a case in PA since i live in CA, i decided to take a bunch of stuff from his amazon site as repayment and resell it, he agreed and sent me the stuff at my terms. I have recouped about $3500 so far but it isnt worth the headaches. its funny that he still thought i was gonna send back the original cobb. when i told him no, i never heard back from him again.

i have copies of the bounced check, tracking, pictures of the original packaging, emails, a log of my communications of broken promises etc. if you need more information please contact me.

[btcarfagno]

I live in NJ and emailed him that I was willing to meet him in Philadelphia (where he is supposedly located) to pick up the card and make payment in person. Never heard from him.

Again, he used a scan straight from Heritage on the card that I "won". The light and dark areas of the slab from the scanner passing over it were basically a fingerprint match. At that point I knew it was a scam.

Tom C

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by buymycards

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ghlight=prisco

Yup, that's the one. Hard to believe that's been almost 6 years ago!

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

what a total scum bag. This guy needs a beat down

[Jobu]

http://live.autographmagazine.com/fo...ource=activity

Complaints tab:

https://www.bbb.org/washington-dc-ea...and-complaints

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

what a total scum bag. This guy needs a beat down

I agree. What a POS!

Here is what I don't understand:

You can get arrested for being drunk in public.

You can get arrested for pushing someone.

You can get arrested for telling someone "you better watch your a**!"

Now if somebody SCAMS you for THOUSANDS of dollars, and you phone the police, they tell you there is nothing they can do about it and to just get a lawyer - what a joke!

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by buymycards

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ghlight=prisco

Oh yes, that's where I remember his name from. We had quite a "spirited debate" about what he was selling over at the memorabilia/autograph side. He was also added to another long thread about Coaches Corner and bad authenticators which got up to about 100 pages. Like I said, "spirited". LOL