Frank prisco dealings (chris lewis) piedmont sport dealings

[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

[Leon]

This guy is getting to a point where other law enforcement could get involved. It's one thing to screw a person over. That is bad. It is another thing to have an ongoing enterprise screwing multiple people out of thousands of dollars. Hopefully they get their arses handed to them in court.

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[Jobu]

Yeah, it seems like the list of people who have been burned is pretty big. I would think there would be real interest from law enforcement, especially if he is also making insurance claims on some of these "lost in the mail", "sent to the wrong person", etc. cards.

Also worth noting is that Piedmont Sport is his Net54 id, though he has not logged in since 2011.

Originally Posted by Leon

This guy is getting to a point where other law enforcement could get involved. It's one thing to screw a person over. That is bad. It is another thing to have an ongoing enterprise screwing multiple people out of thousands of dollars. Hopefully they get their arses handed to them in court.

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

real punchline is that he's a business professor. love to know what he's teaching the next generation.

[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!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

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!

Probably because it is a civil matter.....I took a hot check (didn't know it at the time) as an 8k payment once, for a business payment, and it bounced. I called the sheriff's office and they said there was nothing they could do as it was a civil matter.

[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