The AFL card collecting fraternity need to be on the lookout for sellers retailing fake hand signed cards. Recently I bought a group of Richmond cards from a yellow star South Australian seller. On arrival I compared the cards to the advertised photo and to previous year cards that I had of the players and found the cards to be of no similarity to the authentic cards.
The fear that I have is that it undermines the element of trust needed between seller/buyer and brings into disrepute the ebay method for procurement. The other violation is the exploitation of the footballer whom someone is trying to capitalise on defrauding there lawful signature.I have never relied on a lie to sell something in my life and to have somebody do that to me is quite a violation of my trust.
Typically with ebay you do deal with low socio-economic sellers who demand instant payment and are generally patience challenged, but some are now just becoming low life crooks.
