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Group Breaker Warns of Increasingly Sophisticated Counterfeit PSA Slabs
A group breaker on TikTok posted a warning this weekend after buying what turned out to be an entire lot of fake PSA slabs. ACBreakz posted to Discord Saturday evening that he bought the cards in person, only to find out every single slab was counterfeit. “Every card is counterfeit,” he wrote. “The PSA numbers…
TRIMMED 1936 Goudey World Wide Gum Joe DiMaggio #51
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…
2016 Panini Black Friday Packs
Do hobby shops still exist? Perhaps the few still around will take part in the 2016 Panini Black Friday promotion. The annual promo Panini has run for a few years has really become a tired act. The first couple years there was some buzz around it. In recent years, I don’t think anyone really cares. How…
MeiGray Considers Legal Action Against CardPorn Over Controversial Michael Jordan Jersey Authentication
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Former NFL Player Evan Mathis Accused of Card Trimming
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…
