More Fun Comics #56 on ebay

[Paris_Fred]

Just on ebay:

ebay item

 

Now, Cover from Heritage past auction:

More Fun #56, 9.0, White Pages, CGC #0082606001

 

And then back cover from another Heritage past auction:

More Fun #56, 8.0, Off-White, CGC #0002270003

 

Just to warn everybody

[Thegoldenage]

That was my book in the Heritage Auction. I sent an -email to ebay warning them that it is a scam auction.

[Timely]

All of his stuff is bogus!

 

West

[Paris_Fred]

That was my book in the Heritage Auction. I sent an -email to ebay warning them that it is a scam auction.

 

Cover or Back-Cover and well done for the e-mail.

[RareHighGrade]

This same seller is offering Adventure Comics 41, in what he claims to be 9.0 unslabbed condition. However the scan he shows in his ebay ad is a scan of the Mile High copy (CGC 9.6) sold in the Heritage October 2002 Nicholas Case auction. Another scam.

[supapimp]

so build up 100% postitve feedback then start scamming huh?

[Bonds25]

That was my book in the Heritage Auction. I sent an -email to ebay warning them that it is a scam auction.

 

Sweet - my $12,500 bid is winning the auction!

[tth2]

All of his stuff is bogus!

 

West

 

At least he's smart enough not to be offering the usual big-ticket books (FF 1, Action 1, AF 15) that gets everybody's fraud detectors going. Finally, a sophisticated con artist!

[esquirecomics]

I have the CGC 8.0 of this book.

 

I e-mailed the guy asking for the larger pictures. He sent the same cropped photo shop images. Surprise, surprise.

 

Is this seller a complete fraud or is it a hijacked account?

[Point Five]

Unbelievable! Thanks to everyone here for the warnings. This is a lot craftier than most scams, and I would have found it hard to resist placing a bid on the Adventure 41. The guy has lots of pos feedbacks for other old books. What's funny on closer inspection is that the pilfered scan of the Adventure 41 back cover shows a bit of the transluscent CGC holder plastic, but the seller must not have known what that was and wrote "some tape on bottom of back".

 

It's really awful though that a lot of legitimate bidders are being taken in. Is it safe to assume ebay won't intervene without more concrete evidence?

[sborock]

Unbelievable! Thanks to everyone here for the warnings. This is a lot craftier than most scams, and I would have found it hard to resist placing a bid on the Adventure 41. The guy has lots of pos feedbacks for other old books. What's funny on closer inspection is that the pilfered scan of the Adventure 41 back cover shows a bit of the transluscent CGC holder plastic, but the seller must not have known what that was and wrote "some tape on bottom of back".

 

It's really awful though that a lot of legitimate bidders are being taken in. Is it safe to assume ebay won't intervene without more concrete evidence?

 

Haspel and I have alerted our friends at ebay about this guy. We are starting to be a little more pro-active about this kind of stuff, because ebay says they will help us when possible.

[143ksk]

I see the Church copy of Adventure 41 is no longer for sale. It must've been getting too hard to explain the fact that it is obviously in a CGC case. Tape my

[Point Five]

Thanks a lot, Steve! I imagine ebay will listen up a bit more when the info is coming from you folks...that's great news. Thanks again.

[esquirecomics]

Unbelievable! Thanks to everyone here for the warnings. This is a lot craftier than most scams, and I would have found it hard to resist placing a bid on the Adventure 41. The guy has lots of pos feedbacks for other old books. What's funny on closer inspection is that the pilfered scan of the Adventure 41 back cover shows a bit of the transluscent CGC holder plastic, but the seller must not have known what that was and wrote "some tape on bottom of back".

 

It's really awful though that a lot of legitimate bidders are being taken in. Is it safe to assume ebay won't intervene without more concrete evidence?

 

Haspel and I have alerted our friends at ebay about this guy. We are starting to be a little more pro-active about this kind of stuff, because ebay says they will help us when possible.

 

I am happy to work with you as much as possible on this worthwhile effort.

[the blob]

yet the scam auction is still running...

[supapimp]

ebay doesn't show bid retractions anymore? WTF!?!

[Thegoldenage]

I alerted our "friends" at ebay on Sunday. They haven't done jack about it.

[esquirecomics]

The "seller" sent me this photo today.

 

 

He wrote:

 

"My home scanner is out, here is a group photo scanned at work. The cheapo scanner here worries me too much to run comics through it."

 

The two e-mail addresses he used were: thosedarncomics@adelphia.net and steve.barghusen@petcrossing.com.

[RareHighGrade]

It appears that the scam is to sell mid to low grade comics and advertise them by using scans of high grade copies that the seller doesn't own. The seller counts on the buyer relying on the scan to buy the book. Then, when the buyer complains that the book is nothing like he expected, the seller claims that the book is consistent with the written description and refuses to provide a refund.

[lou_fine]

The "seller" sent me this photo today.

 

 

He wrote:

 

"My home scanner is out, here is a group photo scanned at work. The cheapo scanner here worries me too much to run comics through it."

 

The two e-mail addresses he used were: thosedarncomics@adelphia.net and steve.barghusen@petcrossing.com.

 

Are you implying the seller's real name is Steve Barghusen? If this is in fact true, then the auctions might be authentic since I believe Steve is really 143ksk who is a upstanding member of these boards.

 

Of course, there's always the possibility that any scam artist could have copied Steve's name to create this email address. Maybe we should PM 143ksk and ask him if these are really his auctions.