Fake Ass Billiken Mendez on ebay

[Yastrzemski Sports]

I didn’t know you could still contact a buyer if you aren’t the seller. How do you do that?

[ElCabron]

You can't contact the buyer.

[Jason19th]

I saw this and thought it really cannot be a forgery because a forgery is supposed to look like the original. It is clearly not an original billiken but I almost wonder if it’s an uncatologed original something - it looks like a photo of a billiken

[Jason19th]

My god- I just saw the purchase price. Who knows enough about Cuban cards to know that a real card would be valuable but also not know it’s not an original billiken. It’s not like a bad Honus where everyone in the world knows a real one would be worth a ton

[ElCabron]

It's a fake that was created over 20 years ago before most people had even seen what a real Billiken looked like. A whole group of them were sold to an American around 2000 or 2001. He tried to sell them to me back then. I told him they were fakes and he should destroy them. He knew they were fakes when he bought them. I think I even have scans of them somewhere. He then leaked them out into the hobby. None have surfaced for years, and I thought by now no one would be duped by them because we all know what an authentic Billiken looks like. But it seems someone is going to learn an expensive lesson on this one. The ebay seller also had several real Billikens for sale, so it's pretty easy to see the difference.

-Ryan