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Bench Warmer
I thought it might be useful to let people know about a recent experience I had in purchasing from a particular eBay seller.
I'm almost done completing my 2009 SP Authentic Football set and had needed the Matthew Stafford Rookie Authentic Auto Patch (/499) among a few other cards. I had already busted 3 cases and didn't plan on buying any more cases/boxes. So I went on eBay to round out the rest.
With the Stafford card, I won this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...181444&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
It came, looked fine to me, and I left positive feedback.
Today, I was alerted by another eBay user that the seller of this item is notorious for selling sports card where he cuts/rips out the original game-used jersey/patch swatch from the card and then "upgrades" it with a fake prime patch.
So I looked at it more closely. There is tampering/discoloration all along the silver foil border that that holds the patch. I gave a weak tug to the patch itself... it came right up (no tearing, no glue holding it down). There was no glue on the back of it, yet the card showed evidence that the original patch had been cut and then torn from it previously. A couple of layers of cardstock had been ripped out... yet none of these layers were on the back of the patch that had been swapped in.
Upon glancing at this seller's current auctions, it's very clear what's going on...
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZufjumper7QQhtZ-1
Needless to say, it's been reported to eBay and we'll see what happens. But I definitely wanted to get word out to fellow collectors that might be watching any of those auctions that they might want to be extremely wary (especially since all of those auctions are as prime as patches get and I only got 1 prime patch per case opening them myself...).
Thanks for reading and I hope nobody else get scammed.
I'm almost done completing my 2009 SP Authentic Football set and had needed the Matthew Stafford Rookie Authentic Auto Patch (/499) among a few other cards. I had already busted 3 cases and didn't plan on buying any more cases/boxes. So I went on eBay to round out the rest.
With the Stafford card, I won this auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...181444&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
It came, looked fine to me, and I left positive feedback.
Today, I was alerted by another eBay user that the seller of this item is notorious for selling sports card where he cuts/rips out the original game-used jersey/patch swatch from the card and then "upgrades" it with a fake prime patch.
So I looked at it more closely. There is tampering/discoloration all along the silver foil border that that holds the patch. I gave a weak tug to the patch itself... it came right up (no tearing, no glue holding it down). There was no glue on the back of it, yet the card showed evidence that the original patch had been cut and then torn from it previously. A couple of layers of cardstock had been ripped out... yet none of these layers were on the back of the patch that had been swapped in.
Upon glancing at this seller's current auctions, it's very clear what's going on...
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZufjumper7QQhtZ-1
Needless to say, it's been reported to eBay and we'll see what happens. But I definitely wanted to get word out to fellow collectors that might be watching any of those auctions that they might want to be extremely wary (especially since all of those auctions are as prime as patches get and I only got 1 prime patch per case opening them myself...).
Thanks for reading and I hope nobody else get scammed.