Merchantman Auctions in Davie FL trying to sell counterfeits Jan 27

[Seven]

Originally Posted by swarmee

$60K in counterfeit cards, listed in the thread above. Reported them to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Lets see what comes of it.

Thank you John. Hopefully something comes of this.

[Eric72]

Rather unfortunate that this thread has had so little participation. If it were an, "oh my, this grading company is changing the font size on their label" thread, there would have already been hundreds of comments.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Rather unfortunate that this thread has had so little participation. If it were an, "oh my, this grading company is changing the font size on their label" thread, there would have already been hundreds of comments.

I'm surprised that this has gotten not a whole lot of participation either but I think this is more because that no one has heard of this Auction company, to my knowledge at least, and that it seems like a small scale operation.

I think also when push comes to shove there's only so much we can do against counterfeits, for both Cards and Auto's. We talk about Operation Bullpen all the time, yet there are still countless fake signatures of everyone from George Washington to Marilyn Monroe, to Mickey Mantle floating around, I'd imagine the same thing with cards.

[swarmee]

Yeah, I realize that. I had not heard of it until the post in the post-war forum brought them to my attention. I'm sure there's an auctionhouse in every state doing stuff like this, but not all of them post it on the internet for all to see.

Maybe someone from an auction house wants to report them to the FL state licensing board, presuming they're even registered in the first place.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Apparently all that comes from it is he switches providers. He is not with icollect anymore but in a Facebook group I belong to he was just outed as selling fakes with Hibid.

[D. Bergin]

Meanwhile, "Coach's Corner" still openly doing business.

Here's a couple doozies ending tonight:

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot/354/marie-...signature.aspx

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot/354/2-diff...-artworks.aspx


Casino gift shops and Cruise ship silent auction companies everywhere, can't wait to bid on their priceless paraphernalia, to stock up on items to sell to their sucke..................hmmm.......I mean "clients".

[judsonhamlin]

I love the idea that the Marie Antoinette ‘signature’ should be mounted with a photo. I’m sure Coaches could make one of those appear.

[byrone]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Meanwhile, "Coach's Corner" still openly doing business.

Here's a couple doozies ending tonight:

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot/354/marie-...signature.aspx

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot/354/2-diff...-artworks.aspx


Casino gift shops and Cruise ship silent auction companies everywhere, can't wait to bid on their priceless paraphernalia, to stock up on items to sell to their sucke..................hmmm.......I mean "clients".

Who doesn't want a Picasso?

And if I had a million dollars (If I had a million dollars)
Well I'd buy you some art
A Picasso or a Garfunkel

Lyrics by "Barenaked Ladies"

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Apparently all that comes from it is he switches providers. He is not with icollect anymore but in a Facebook group I belong to he was just outed as selling fakes with Hibid.

and now he's on Live Auctioneers lol.

[mrreality68]

Never a dull moment and it is tough keeping up with them.

But sadly in any area where money can be made some people will try to exploit it

[mrreality68]

Never a dull moment and it is tough keeping up with them.

But sadly in any area where money can be made some people will try to exploit it

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Rather unfortunate that this thread has had so little participation. If it were an, "oh my, this grading company is changing the font size on their label" thread, there would have already been hundreds of comments.

If this was about Probstein we'd be up to 300 posts.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

If this was about Probstein we'd be up to 300 posts.

and 100 of them would be saying how great he is.

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

Merchantman Auctions continues to sell reprints and scam there buyers

I just received a call from a client that was scammed by them in the December auction on a Green Cobb. They are selling the same Ty Cobb reprints over and over. That is just one player, who knows how many others are out there.

hibid.com should be held responsible since you can find there auctions through them.

I hope I do not have to hear of any others getting scammed by these people.

Lee

[JustinD]

God, every single one of these is just an awful fake.

Honestly, even if I didn't know they were I would run from a signal as bad as selling top shelf cards as a auction house in lucite 4 screws and the world's crappiest snap-tites.

I get that this is frustrating and I want more than anything for jacka**es like this to rot in a cell. When the fakes are this bad, I also don't feel bad victim blaming on this if someone is spending 1000s. If you buy a fake Lamborghini built on a Fiero chassis, you should be consulting someone.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I have reported them on several platforms, and I'm not bashful about letting these platforms know I am a licensed auctioneer who belongs to his state association who would be very interested to know they are not only allowing non-licensed auctioneers (many platforms do that) but are promoting frauds. Who are they using now?