Author: SportsCardRadio

Ok, its not like winning an Oscar or a Grammy, but here are the winners for the 2023 Sports Card Radio Awards! Voting ended December 31st! Over 568 people voted! Voting ended December 31st! Tune into Sports Card Radio YouTube for the results!

1: The 1952 Topps Boston, MA Find Featured over 6,000 Gem Mint high-number cards, including 65 rookie cards of Mickey Mantle. Sotheby’s Auction House heralded it as “The greatest baseball card discovery ever.” 2: The Paris, TN Collection Included over 500 unopened wax boxes of 1954 and 1955 Topps and Bowman baseball cards. Just one…

The brand you can’t help but scrutinize. Die-hard card enthusiasts might not say it out loud, but the hours spent fretting over Topps often eclipse the time devoted to family—and we won’t even touch on the financial investment. In an earlier piece, we delved into Topps’ memorable missteps, but that was prior to the game-changing…

October 15-16, 2023 in Montréal Canada Sign up for the Universal Distribution Retailer Summit by either placing a pre-order for the sessions you plan to attend or by reaching out to your account manager. If opting for the pre-order method, ensure you input “1” for every individual attending a specific segment of the event. MONDAY…

Nationwide — In the sports memorabilia community, integrity and authentication are paramount. But recent revelations indicate that even those who claim to be the watchdogs of the community can become the fraudsters they vow to expose. “Watchdog” or Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? A social media account known as @cardprn, which has accumulated over 100,000 followers…

Is the former lead grader at DCI Grading a scammer? Jason Dardick of Dallas, Texas went wild on Twitter the other day, hurling mom jokes at the owner of Sports Card Radio! While his joke’s got less spice than a pumpkin latte, others aren’t laughing and believe that Dardick is a scammer and his former…

Someone please check on the owner of Dave Sports Cards in Roswell, GA.  He’s blowing up at his customers who leave negative reviews online, everything from threatening lawsuits to finding out where they work and calling their boss! After this one star review was left for Dave Sports Cards, the owner made an Instagram video…

A current Topps employee is being accused of running off with customer cards from a prior consignment business. Richard Zangrillo, a memorabilia coordinator for Topps, previously ran LVBK Collectibles, a consignment business that sold sports cards on eBay. LVBK Collectibles shut down in September 2022 and many customers are still waiting to get back cards…

While not anything new, bots are being used to get the best cards off the Panini Rewards website. Sadly not much can be done. Shopping bots.

Rumor is Elite Card Grading is headed for bankruptcy. Over 100 collectors could still have cards in ECG s possession. Local police have.

Re: Demand for Retraction, Correction, and Apology Dear Mr. Geoff Wilson: This letter is written on behalf of Sports Card Radio to demand an immediate apology, correction, and retraction of your letter sent to us on December 22, 2022. In the letter, you mention a professional “success” of yours was a company known as “Dibbs.”…

Did Elite Card Grading go poof? The company has not responded to emails and some customer orders have not been finished. We did a reaction.

Nearly four years after a scandal in the sports card world so big, it sent the FBI to the hobby elite’s doorstep, six-figure pictures of men are still being found to be trimmed or altered. The recent discovery of a trimmed 1936 Goudey World Wide Gum Joe DiMaggio was published on the Blowout Forum. It…

One of the most notorious sports card scammers is back! He’s now threatened Sports Card Radio with a lawsuit and also challenged us to a $25,000 prize fight. Oddly, this is all nearly four years too late. Will Jaimet is the co-owner of Heroes of Sport, a re-pack sports card product filled with trimmed cards…

Rumors floating around a F1 Discord suggest that autographs can be found in 2022 Topps Chrome F1 boxes without even opening them. A QR code on the back could give away what is inside the box. One user said he was 5 out of 6 predicting what was inside boxes he purchased and predicted another…

Been hearing about declining viewership on WhatNot lately. For months we had people telling us Backyard Breaks was “so much bigger” than all other group breakers. I wonder what their thoughts are now? MojoBreak had over 21,300 viewers at one point on a new eBay Live platform. The industry may have been too quick to…

SDN Sports Cards, a dealer that sells on Facebook and WhatNot, was caught trying to scam users out of money meant to be donated to charity. After raising nearly $3,000 from 54 collectors, users of a Facebook Scammer group discovered what appeared to be doctored images of a GoFundMe receipt posted by SDN. Turns out…

A Georgia man was sentenced to three years in federal prison after admitting he lied to obtain a PPP loan, then used a large portion of the money to buy a Charizard trading card. Vinath Oudomsine, 31, of Dublin, Ga., obtained $85,000 in Covid-19 relief money. Oudomsine later used $57,789 of the funds to purchase…

 Hearing that Check Out My Cards (COMC) could be handling all of Topps redemption cards in the near future. Perhaps a larger partnership or deal between COMC and the owner of Topps, Fanatics, will be coming soon as well? COMC is one of the few companies we’ve hyped and believed in over the years. We’ve…

Many around the hobby suggest Sports Card Radio is “always negative.” Pay us what Geoff Wilson, the Sports Card Investor, got for this recent video and we’ll make a vid on anything you want. Jabs Family did some group breaks for 2022 Topps Chrome Baseball and now is acting cheap. After Topps messed up, and…