9/19/2002

Volume 2, Issue 68

This twice-weekly newsletter focusing on the online auction business is sent to you by Krause Publications, the world's leading hobby publisher.

Counterfeit baseball cards uncovered

An investigation by Sports Collectors Digest indicates hundreds of phony 1963 Bazooka baseball cards have been sold to unsuspecting buyers on eBay and Shop At Home in recent months. While the counterfeits are not particularly well-made, they are all the more dangerous because most were sold in plastic slabs purporting to have been authenticated by a legitimate grading company.