Ashamed - Topps T206 Buy Back Fraud

[Marchillo]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

So nobody else was impressed by his miraculous comeback from terminal cancer in 2009???

One of the first thoughts I had reading the 2009 thread and almost commented on that but deleted it. Not only did he scam people with these t206 cards but played to the emotions to anyone reading that thread. Surely almost everyone knows someone impacted by cancer and felt terrible for the OP. But it speaks to the cockiness of his scam. It seems he can't keep himself from telling lies and using manipulation any chance he gets. So besides the act of altering buy backs, I wonder what other bs he peddled in PM etc.

[Rich Klein]

On a different thought --- and I say this because I remember how excited I was to hear about these when they came out back in 2002 but I'd wager Topps believed the whole concept of putting an original T206 card into one of these holders would be sufficient for collectors. Shoot, who would have thought these cards could be "played with".

In retrospect, I'm sure Topps would have done a sealing such as they do today to prevent this scenario from occurring. The do "sealings" with autographed and other cards they send today so I would suspect the same situation would now have been done had these cards been issued in 2017 and not 2002

Rich