The Roaches Corner is at it again

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

I recently bought a Lincoln letter signed in sharpie. It's cool. I estimate its value in the tens.

To quote Larry the Cable Guy "I don't care who you are that's funny right thar"

[thetruthisoutthere]

Below is a direct quote that I received from Mr. John Reznikoff in reference to the above Abraham Lincoln we are discussing here:

Anywhere from 1 minute to days depending on a number of factors. In my opinion I could find 100 reputable dealers, top ones, that would take less than 1 minute to decide on this one. We both know what that decision would be, and it would be consistent with all 100. You can quote me

[GrayGhost]

Not to mention, that for such a "successful" auction house. , they can't afford to take good quality pictures.

Now, I ask you, why would this, or any hi dollar piece the Roaches have, be blurry? I can only wonder.

[thecatspajamas]

Better to draw in unsuspecting bidders (who are not members of this board, obviously) who think they have found something for nothing. If they showed their crap clearly, you'd see what a turd really looks like.

How in the world do they continue to get away with all the forgeries? There are laws against that sort of thing, right? As blatant as some of their junk is, and as long and often as it has been discussed, poked, prodded and made fun of here on the boards to the point that you can just use "cc" as the punchline to whatever forgery joke you want to make, how are they allowed to continue? Even if they only get a couple hundred dollars for a fake item that would be worth thousands if it were real, that's still a couple hundred dollars more than they should get that was taken out of some naive bidder's pocket, right? And once they've sold it, that crap is out there to continue to cause problems down the road. You might be able to pee in the pool once or twice and get away with it, but it seems like if you routinely take a dump in the deep end, sooner or later someone would get sick of swimming in your sewage to forcibly eject you from the pool...

[GrayGhost]

Rather harsh analogy, but so true. I still would like to know how the wheels could be set in motion to get these clowns put out of business. There are so many things wrong with this whole deal. Plus, people need to educate themselves on what they are buying as well. Sad sad sad situation.

[sports-rings]

when I see that bids there go into the hundreds for this junk, i truly hope some of that is Coach's corner doing shell bidding too.

I can't beleive this has gone on as long as it has. Too bad 60 minutes or Real Sports doesn't do an investigative piece on them.

[ruth-gehrig]

Aren't there some attorneys or lawyers on the board that could offer advice as to what exactly it would take to get them shut down? What laws are they breaking? It's quite obvious to us their entire operation is a scam. Since letters of authenticity are opinions if it came down to a lawsuit over an autograph why couldn't the authenticator just say, "whoops my mistake i honestly believed it was the real deal based on my experience" and be off the hook? And the auction house just say they were selling it because the authenticator said it was legit? IMO to bring them down one of the forgers would have to rat em out but why would they want to because they have to be banking big time as well. Why would you bite the hand that continually feeds you?