Scam More Fun Comics 56?

[Thegoldenage]

I saw this item on ebay and quickly identified it as the copy I sold in a Heritage Auction about two years ago. It was a CGC 9.0. I am curious if anyone on the boards knows who this seller is. I am not sure if the seller bought the book from Heritage and cracked it out, or if it is a scam. He added a picture of the books he is selling, but the More Fun 56 is buried under the other comics.

 

More Fun Comics 56 on Ebay

[Silver Surfer]

How nice of him to put his comics on top of his washing machine next to dirty pots and pans, what a selling feature.

[esquirecomics]

Actually, this was the auction that led to my thread on Colorado Springs. I suspect it is a fraud as well but requested the seller to allow a personal inspection just in case. No response yet.

[MK Ultra]

What about asking the seller if you can pick it up in person? Whether or not you do is another matter, but it might be a good enough bluff to see what the real story is.

[esquirecomics]

That usually works also.

[OldGuy]

This seller buys, sells, watches a lot of coin auctions. I can't find anything to do with comic books in his Ebay history. I don't know what that means, but it seems a little strange that he's in "foreclosure" with his recent history of buying coins. Maybe he's an Ebay addict? Or just full of [embarrassing lack of self control].

[Crackandpresstoan11]

Scans are stolen from the Heritage web site. The Showcase #9 is a CGC 9.2.

[OldGuy]

Scans are stolen from the Heritage web site. The Showcase #9 is a CGC 9.2.

 

[Thegoldenage]

Nice work. Thanks.

[Comicdey]

how can you tell it's a stolen scan from the imageon the washer?

[Point Five]

You know, at the beginning of this year, I remember a scammer running loads of bogus GA & SA auctions, and he was using this exact same stolen image of More Fun 56 (which he called a "Near Mint -") as well as scans of other high-end books (pre-hero Adventure, 9.6 SA ASMs, etc). He even posted similar faraway pics of a few GA books lying around as "evidence" that he owned the books. There was an extended discussion here on the boards as his auctions drew to a close. The ebay account was different, but everything else is identical so I'm sure it's the same guy. Anyone else remember this?

[jonjesper]

$1 shipping! You can't beat that!

[Paris_Fred]

I do remember, same seller

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/sho...e=21#Post750295

[Point Five]

[metropoliscomics]

Was the high bidder on the Showcase#9. After he asked for payment, I asked why he was running an auction with a stolen scan. He then asked for payment again. He even left me negative feedback for not paying him.

 

This guy is Aaron Stubbs. Sound familiar. He is the person who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Colorado Dept of Revenue. Does the IRS collection sound familiar?

 

Steve

[BlackHeartedDwarf-migratio]

Was the high bidder on the Showcase#9.

 

Steve

Metropolis = zaq12

 

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