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 His wife has left him over his addiction to sports cards. He once got rid of a dog because it was being too loud during his YouTube shows. But Erik Jabs remains one of the biggest celebrities in the sports card industry. The Jabs Family YouTube channel gets thousands of viewers per week. Fans can…

 Two prominent names in the sports card world are involved in a huge Pokemon controversy. UPDATE: THE CASE IS FAKE Jameel Mohammed, who owns The Meelypops Shop in Gainesville, FL, helped purchase what he thought was a case of 1st Edition Pokemon cards back in April 2021. Gary Vee (Left) with Meelypops The story is…

 A red hot sports card market in 2021 saw many new companies spring up and attempt to woo collector interest.  Sports card grading company Hybrid Grading Approach (HGA) is one of them, and it’s been a bumpy ride so far. Here are the greatest mistakes so far in HGA history. Articles Ripping on PSA– Anonymous…

A new Instagram account (now deleted) is out detailing the losses Geoff Wilson, better known as Sports Card Investor, has taken on some of his cardboard purchases. Sports Card Investor And Wilson is super mad about it, he’s threatening to sue online critics! One IG post details how Wilson is down over $200,000 on some…

A Vice President of a New Jersey drug marketing consultant company is being accused of trimming high end Aaron Rodgers football cards. Dominick Cirigliano, the VP of OptiBrand Rx, appears to be selling several trimmed Rodgers cards on his eBay account domboski2005. Dominick Cirigliano Blowout Forum user, 3124508 on COMC, believes that Cirigliano trimmed and…

Beckett Grading Services (BGS) has confirmed the existence of counterfeit graded card holders.  A social media post on November 12, 2020 terrified sports card collectors and sent them scrambling to check their slabs.   So far, it’s believed the cards inside the holders are real, but the BGS cases are fake. Exclusive Video On November…

Be careful using Crazy Uncle Auctions! Yes, someone named their business that. According to Net54 user, CJ Dave, over $500,000 worth of items were DUMPED outside his house when they didn’t sell during a Crazy Uncle auction.  Several other forum users described problems when buying & selling items. Crazy Uncle is run by Aaron Rothschild,…

News, insight and coverage from the 2020 Topps Industry Conference, February 23-25, 2020.  Ryan returns to his old stomping grounds to see what is happening in the world of sports cards. PODCAST: Show #231 2020 Topps Industry Conference Recap Show Tuesday 1:49 pm Group Breakers don’t make money breaking Topps Transcendent Baseball. Sales don’t equal…

More sports card dealers are getting exposed for their involvement in altering and trimming cards.  As far back as 2006, Charles “Charlie” Barokas of Mercer Island, Washington has been accused of card trimming. News of the scam broke on the Blowout Forum.  Sports Card Radio reached out to Barokas for comment through eBay. Barokas denies…

Card collectors everywhere are SHOOK that their “investments” may be taking a nose dive.  News of golden boy Mike Trout allegedly using HGH has sent card collectors to social media and forums to clock in and defend the MLB star.  > Mike Trout Cards For Sale Blowout Forum has a thread that drips with fanboys…

Small Traditions LLC owner David Thorn is being accused of some big time card trimming.  Blowout Forum member, 3124508 on COMC, lays out significant evidence that shows many before and after items that have been trimmed or altered by Thorn.  > Original Forum Thread 3124508 on COMC is the same forum member who has helped…

Former NFL player Evan Mathis has been accused of trimming sports cards.  News of the scandal broke on the Blowout Forum website.  Mathis is accused of selling trimmed cards through eBay consignors including: >COMC eBay Account>Probstein123 eBay Account>PWCC (Kicked off eBay) Most card trimmers use PWCC, Probstein and COMC to sell their questionable inventory. One…

Sports Card Radio recently obtained an anonymous letter from a believed PSA insider. Any pictures or links were added only for context, and were not included in the original document.  ********************* Live from Santa Ana. Every grader that works for a TPG (third party grader) signs a Non Disclosure Agreement. Every TPG operates like a…

Buyer beware as another veteran sports card dealer has been exposed for selling trimmed cards.  A post on the Blowout Forum accuses RBI Sports Inc owner Rod Iman of buying & selling cards that have been trimmed.  Evidence of card altering was provided by the same forum user, 3124508 on COMC, who has been at…

Another card trimmer has been exposed on the Blowout Forum, this time it’s Metro Sports owner Brandon Taing. Forum user 3124508 on COMC provided evidence of several cards believed to be trimmed and showed PSA submission data that can link the cards back to Taing.  The same technique has been used to expose card trimmers…

Update: Burge implicated in the Probstein shill bidding scam. – LINK HERE When it comes to being a sports card scammer, Kevin Burge can do it all.  The Mooresville, North Carolina dealer has been accused of forging autographs, faking patch cards, and trimming cards as far back as 2003.  In addition to the card doctoring,…

The promotional offers from Leaf Trading Cards during The National Sports Collectors Convention may not be what they seem.  At the 2018 show in Cleveland, Leaf employee Joe Clemons CLEANED UP when he got at least 43 of 120 serial numbered 1/1 cards that were advertised as a promotion to collectors.  Update: A second Leaf…

VIEW ACTIVE CASES HERE FAKE THREATS Mark Sapira.k.a “Hands Shaking”Ex-Topps EmployeeCase Details SOLVED 2013 Topps employee Mark Sapir sent a message to Sports Card Radio that read: “If I ever see you say anything negative about this company (Topps), especially on Twitter, I’ll cut you off for good.” A few months later this guy came…

You know it’s bad when there is an entire Instagram account set up to expose your scams.  The IG account appeared after a 100+ page Blowout Forum thread called out sports card loser Eric Bitz of BuyNiceCards.com  In the thread, a “three-way” deal that went bad between Bitz and two other card fondlers was discussed. …

Brian Deer boasted that in the early 2000’s he was making six figures in cash selling baseball cards.  “I didn’t appreciate the money because frankly it had been so easy to make,” Deer wrote in a 2014 social media post. Brian Deer To make some of that money, Deer has been scamming collectors by selling…

We are SICK of having to write about another pair of industry scumbags. But put away your plastic slabs for a second and get to know this duo. In early 2019, Bill Sliheet and Nate Nichols from Superior Sports Investments (SSI) were called out for having trimmed cards for sale. Bill Sliheet Initially, it wasn’t…

Former Beckett Grading Services (BGS) and current Leaf Trading Cards employee Joe Clemons appears to have a statistically impossible rate at getting BGS 10’s & ‘Black Labels.’  Graphic: Blowout Forum Blowout Forum user Kyaa lays out the shocking details in this thread. Here are just one of many SHOCKING BGS submissions. Have you ever got…

From the company that brought you Dak Prescott Auto-Penned autograph cards… Oh, and a laundry list of other mistakes over the last decade …. it should come to no one’s surprise. Panini America Luka Doncic Autographs are fake. Luka’s signature on his Panini America cards started changing over the course of the 2018-19 NBA Basketball…

You probably don’t know who Gary “Scissor Hands” Moser is. But as far back as 2002, the New York area dealer has been accused of altering, trimming, and cleaning vintage trading cards. His card doctoring is so vast that it’s hard to keep up with all his exploits over the years.   Starting on page…

2025 UPDATE: Tormollan scams have continue for many years.  He has been selling numerous fake autographs via his eBay account clearblueconsignment.  In December 2025 he changed his eBay name to: dcsportsconsignment Steven Tormollan Original 2019 Article Another day, another kill shot by Blowout Forum user 3124508 on COMC. This time known sports card trimmer Steven Tormollan…

The same Blowout Forum user that brought you the Heroes of Sport scam, is back with another KNOCK OUT punch to hobby trimming heavyweight Robert Block. With details this EXPLOSIVE, it might RATTLE the locks off a vault or two near Texas or Oregon. Developing is a SEVEN figure card trimming scam by Robert Block. …

Leaf Trading Cards owner Brian Gray has jumped into the podcast fray. Here are thoughts on his first episode and where you can listen. Redemption Cards This featured his weakest arguments and underscored the fact that redemption cards are largely a Ponzi scheme for card companies. My favorite part was when he “urged” card manufactures…

Colin and Ryan have sat around for years watching grown men show off trimmed, fake and altered PSA or BGS slabs on social media channels. Grown men bragging about having a picture of another grown man.  For some reason in the sports card industry these posts are seen as a status symbol. You guys look…