A few more bad Buyback autographs

csmtampa · July 22, 2009 6:09PM

While checking out the bay I came across a few more bad buyback autographs to look out for.

Pujols fake buyback

Arod fake buyback

Arod fake buyback

Griffey fake buyback

Also note his question he was asked, and his answer:

Q: Do you have the COA card with the matching hologram number on it that comes with this card? If you do could you please post a scan.
A: NOPE, CAME THIS WAY!!!

Both the Jeter and Griffey 20th Anniversary buyback autographs came with a COA card IN THE PACK as the autograph, which had a matching hologram on it.

I still can't believe people bid on these flat out fakes... it amazes me.
Heres some real Griffey 20th Anniversary buybacks

Here is a REAL Bowman Originals buyback card, complete with a NON FORGED autograph and the original case they came in with seal on top, 2006 Bowman Originals label on back, and Certified Autograph Issue label.

Real Arod buyback

WinPitcher · July 22, 2009 6:54PM

wow this is a real problem it seems, thanks for the updates.

Steve

ga5150 · July 22, 2009 10:01PM

Would it help if several of us reported these auctions as fake autographs?

MinorLeagueSource · July 23, 2009 12:53AM

theres a lot of fkaes out there. the market is getting flooded with them.

richtree · July 23, 2009 2:58AM

what a joke....

the sad part is some young kid has it displayed on his mantle and doesn't even know:

It's a Fugazzi!

Stone193 · July 23, 2009 5:36AM

This is the 2nd on your list - Arod fake buyback - this one just may be a mislabel as apposed to a scam - don't think this is even a 'buyback' card at all - I did the BHeritage set back around 2004 and that's how the sigs/with holograms look - and ARod's sig is all over the place compared to some IMO.

This is interesting.
mike

edit: same for the rest below - I just don't think they know what they have? Cards look good to me.

csmtampa · July 23, 2009 6:22AM

"This is the 2nd on your list - Arod fake buyback - this one just may be a mislabel as apposed to a scam - don't think this is even a 'buyback' card at all - I did the BHeritage set back around 2004 and that's how the sigs/with holograms look - and ARod's sig is all over the place compared to some IMO.

This is interesting.
mike

edit: same for the rest below - I just don't think they know what they have? Cards look good to me."

The Arod signature is a fake. The same person who signed that also signed a other fake buyback autographs. Along with all the other fakes shown, they are all fake signatures also. I still don't know why the buyers still buy these when the originals came in a holder, seal, etc. I know some people who sell fake buybacks will take a common buyback autograph and switch it with a star. This problem is widely known with modern collectors, and has been around for a while now. Im sure most of the sellers know what there dealing with. Others may not due to buying it from another collector, or trading for it. The biggest question that was over on the Beckett boards a few months back was why did you take the card out of the holder? A kid claimed to have pulled it from a pack, and took it out of its holder. The card had a blatent forgery on it, and he got ripped by the regulars there.

Buyer Beware

tedh111 · July 23, 2009 6:23AM

stone, the card you just posted is 100% fake. The topps hologram was pulled of a legitmate topps card and put on the arod.

Stone193 · July 23, 2009 8:41AM

I see what you guys mean - I just pulled out some auto'ed card - including the BHeritage - and the cards are not numbered - but rather lettered and there's a special block for the auto - tho these are 2003 version.

Thanx guys - I can't believe this crap! Glad I don't buy this kind of stuff.
mike

csmtampa · July 23, 2009 4:34PM

Here is another REAL Griffey 20th Anniversary Buyback with the COA that comes with the card IN THE PACK.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector · August 4, 2009 12:09PM

Really lazy fake Pujols buyback

I think fake Griffey buyback but unsure

EB22 · August 4, 2009 12:31PM

First off, the players don't hand number the card, as you can see the numbering is black while the auto is blue, which I think is stupid. I think they need to machine serial number these cards and all cards for that matter. It was around 1999-00 when most collectors thought cards that were hand numbered were actually numbered by the players, but they weren't then and they are not now. I think by machine numbering them it will stop all fakes!

Another thing is, are the Topps authentication stickers leaking out? If so, that is a HUGE problem!!! The cards that have authentication on the backs are legit, and the only stupid thing about them is that they are hand numbered by a worker of the company, and even more stupid, they use a different color from the players signature. But for the ones that don't have authentication on the backs and only have a hologram sticker, that can be a problem if Topps "authentication" stickers are leaking some how....

A huge problem that I have seen over and over again, and hope the companies will take simple measures to make sure it dosen't happen, or at least make it easy to spot compared to the fakes, because many people are beeing fooled with these fakes

csmtampa · August 4, 2009 4:23PM

The Topps authentication stickers are being peeled off and placed on a fake buyback.

People are also doing this with football as well, but there taking the auto sticker and removing the autograph, and taking the authentication sticker off, and placing it on a Bowman Chrome card thus making it an autograph card.

joestalin · August 4, 2009 4:35PM

You still can't go wrong having autograph cards in your collection that acutally have the word autograph on them. I would never own a buy back
just because topps did a poor job on them. It also doesn't help that print runs are sometimes hard to know. Originals was a bad product, Arod and
Pujols autos were few and far between, for all I know they might be all fake!

Heritage and Ginter are fool proof, they were signed on card and the actual card has autograph on it. If you are buying buy backs you are wasting your money.

Kevin

1989FleerBillRipkencollector · August 4, 2009 11:06PM

<< <i>You still can't go wrong having autograph cards in your collection that acutally have the word autograph on them. I would never own a buy back
just because topps did a poor job on them. It also doesn't help that print runs are sometimes hard to know. Originals was a bad product, Arod and
Pujols autos were few and far between, for all I know they might be all fake!

Heritage and Ginter are fool proof, they were signed on card and the actual card has autograph on it. If you are buying buy backs you are wasting your money.

Kevin >>

Yep, even the Beckett c-list is inaccurate.

A few more bad Buyback autographs

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