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What fake card did you get stuck with ?

edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
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I once traded a Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jabbar rookie, along with another card or set to a guy for a 51 Mantle.
I sold the Mantle to a guy, and after buying it the guy called me and said it was fake. I took the Mantle back after refunding his
money, gave it to a few experts who said it was fake, and then sat in my room and my stomach turned as I had to rip the card up and lose about 2 grand.

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  • matthewbschultz83matthewbschultz83 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭
    Were you sunk?
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Just got this grade:

    73 1 18813861 N4: QUESTIONABLE AUTHENTICITY 1986 FLEER 68 KARL MALONE Card US


    I've been collecting this set for 20 years and I didn't even know that card was faked.
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    Me either Lee.....odd......
  • MrVintageMrVintage Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭
    I bought a 50 card lot of 1988 fleer Michael Jordan cards about 5 years ago. I bought 25 of the regular card and 25 of the all-star card and i sent them in to BGS to get them graded and they all turned out to be fakes!!!! image
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    Bought a fake '82 TCMA Elway card several years back for $400! Luckily the eBay seller refunded my money after SGC rejected it.
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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    I bought a 1985 Topps Mark McGwire PSA 9 several years ago that ended up being a fake card in a resealed slab.
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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    2 brett hull rookies from a dealer who sold them at the end of a show in NY to myself another dealer!
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    stuck? nah.....lesson learned, just like any other, and a darn good fake to the undereducated....i think i was a co-investor on a set of two @ $75 each, and my partner took them to a card store where it was pointed out to him what to look for on Phony Jordans....we each kept one, been over 20 years, ain't been burned since. image

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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    I got burnt on a Bobby Orr RC once, but I was refunded right away so that doesn't really count.

    A card I was stuck with was a Art Ross RC that was beat up so bad (intentionally) that I didn't recognize it as a fake. No refund on that $178.
  • tsalems1tsalems1 Posts: 3,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This thread is so depressing!
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  • MuggymanMuggyman Posts: 688
    THIS, if i win it...
  • mcadamsmcadams Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭
    I don't know of any....yet. Guess my kids will find out one day if they try to sell the collection.
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  • DialjDialj Posts: 1,636 ✭✭
    I'm in a mall that is putting on an antique show (mostly furniture), but this guy has several older cards (all different sports) and I see a '59 Fleer Ted Signs for $10. I buy some cards and am getting ready to leave and I said "is there something wrong with the '59, maybe marked or creased? He says no it's a reproduction. I said what a shame, and he decides to throw it in for free because I spent about $300 with him. Turns out it's real. I still have it today and never finished the set.
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  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>2 brett hull rookies from a dealer who sold them at the end of a show in NY to myself another dealer >>



    Happened to more than one dealer. I bought 5 from a Mike M. up here in Mass. It was also a dealer to dealer transaction. He, Mike M., did refund my $$ the next time he saw me, apologized etc., as he too had been a victim of that NY guy too.
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    I do not think I have HOWEVER???????????
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  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    McGwire 1985 Topps bought it off ebay in 1999 the seller had no scan.
  • CubsFan41CubsFan41 Posts: 513 ✭✭
    Jordan RC at an estate sale for $175.00. The dirtbag even used disabled kids to parade his stuff around the room. On the bright side,
    this is how I found CU. Now I use it as a coaster in a screw down holder.
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  • Jmhockey23Jmhockey23 Posts: 652 ✭✭
    I bought this one on ebay last summer

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    The Elway looks bad. Was that the scan the seller used?
  • Jmhockey23Jmhockey23 Posts: 652 ✭✭
    No, that's my scan.
  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    I traded for a Bobby Orr RC and sent it out and it came back EOT.........that made my day.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm in a mall that is putting on an antique show (mostly furniture), but this guy has several older cards (all different sports) and I see a '59 Fleer Ted Signs for $10. I buy some cards and am getting ready to leave and I said "is there something wrong with the '59, maybe marked or creased? He says no it's a reproduction. I said what a shame, and he decides to throw it in for free because I spent about $300 with him. Turns out it's real. I still have it today and never finished the set. >>



    I have the rest of the set except for that card.
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