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Sports Card Gossip: Breakers Gone Wild
News of Tik Tok banning sports card breaking could have been a pump fake. This tweet seems to imply China, I mean, the social media app will allow breaking after a light background check. Breaker Gold Graysen received blowback after a customer complained they never received their cards. The breaker acknowledge the mistake but got…
CardsHQ Co-Founder Ryan Van Oost Steps Away From Atlanta Card Shop
Ryan Van Oost, one of three co-founders of CardsHQ, is leaving the Atlanta-based card shop. Geoff Wilson confirmed the departure in an Instagram post on Monday. Wilson, Van Oost, and Carter Musgrave launched CardsHQ together in 2023 and opened the 14,000-square-foot retail location at 3101 Cobb Parkway SE in February 2024. The shop was billed…
Topps Tells Beckett BGS Don’t Grade These Cards
Before you send in your Topps cards to be graded by Beckett Grading Services (BGS), you might want to check with Topps first. Collector David Bach got lucky one day when opening a box of 2017 Bowman Chrome Draft. Inside, he found two 2017 Bowman Chrome refractor Aaron Judge cards and a 2017 Kris Bryant Finest Finishes card. These cards…
Authenticator Claims eBay Seller Moved $1 Million in Fake Beckett COAs, Calls for Federal Investigation
An authentication specialist is calling on federal authorities to investigate what he says is a massive counterfeiting operation involving fake Beckett certificates of authenticity. Roman Pioner, who runs CheckCOA, posted a detailed thread on X documenting what he describes as “the largest single fraud case I have ever seen in the hobby.” Pioner claims a…
Cancelled Auction Chaos: PC Sports Cards Pulls the Plug on Luka Doncic Card Deal
When you think you’ve scored a great deal on a sports card, the last thing you’d expect is for the seller to pull the plug on you. Yet that’s exactly what appears to have happened with eBay seller PC Sports Cards, raising eyebrows and trust issues in the sports card community. The Misstep Here’s the…
Arrested Cards HQ Breaker UPDATE
Stephen Adams, a 40-year-old former employee and breaker at Cards HQ in Marietta, Georgia, was arrested in February 2025 on theft charges for allegedly stealing over $19,600 worth of trading cards. >VIDEO: Breaker says I’m Innocent!>CardsHQ Breaker Arrested Stephen Adams Sports Card Radio has obtained the full police report, which reveals new details about how…