Originally published at: 82-year-old man charged after allegedly selling $800,000 worth of fake Michael Jordan basketball cards | Boing Boing
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Released on no bail is at least a silver lining. With the law system the way it is, I’m surprised they didn’t lock up an octogenarian nonviolent offender without a conviction.
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“Mr. McNeil defrauded sports memorabilia collectors of more than $800,000 by intentionally misrepresenting the authenticity of the trading cards he was peddling when, in fact, they were counterfeit,”
These were not the bits of cheaply produced cardboard coupled with artificial scarcity they were looking for? That wizard’s just a crazy old man.
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In the comic world, there has been a rash of fake slabbeld comics. It looks like it is coming from one guy, but I am sure more are out there.
That is the problem with slabbed comics and cards. Sure, the slab is supposed to confirm an items condition and keep it that way, but it makes it hard to verify counterfeits. The grading companies really need to make a hologrammed serial number that you can’t fake (at least not as easily). Right now people just look up the item they want to sell and copy that graded serial number to make a fake copy of it.
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