Stay Away: Fake Pierce patch/auto card

[SHowley2003]

This is the problem with all the Fleer blanks that made it to market after the bankruptcy sale. Thankfully this is a VERY sloppy forgery. I reached out to the seller in a very kind and professional way to give them a heads up. They gave me a snarky response but initially took the auction down last night. Today the same card is back up from the same seller with a ridiculously high BIN.

In addition to the obviously faked auto the card is also missing the serial numbering.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-Fleer-Court-Authentics-Paul-Pierce-Auto-Patch-Warmup-Read/233593903377?hash=item3663481911:g:tCgAAOSweK9exH2G

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[Vinny407]

There are so many backdoored 04/05 Fleer cards that people have added horrible signatures to. I PC the Magic and there are so many nice Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson RC's from that set, but an equal amount of really bad fakes out there. Pretty sad.

[Vinny407]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-Fleer-E-XL-Dwyane-Wade-Auto-Jersey-Error/274139998195?hash=item3fd40467f3:g:mZ0AAOSwbl9d8qs4

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-FLEER-E-XL-COURT-AUTHENTICS-KIRK-HINRICH-GAME-USED-LOGOMAN-AUTO-SP-BULLS/303350582468?hash=item46a11a8cc4:g:A5MAAOSwsdtdwgeA

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-Fleer-Skybox-Mike-Sweeney-Logoman-Logo-Patch-Auto-SSP-READ/193390553254?hash=item2d06f9a8a6:g:hZQAAOSwmWFedXJ7

[SHowley2003]

There are so many backdoored 04/05 Fleer cards that people have added horrible signatures to. I PC the Magic and there are so many nice Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson RC's from that set, but an equal amount of really bad fakes out there. Pretty sad.

Yeah, that whole Fleer bankruptcy debacle really opened so many doors for scam artists. Thankfully there are a lot of bad examples like this. The scary part is that there are a lot of really good fakes out there though.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-Fleer-E-XL-Dwyane-Wade-Auto-Jersey-Error/274139998195?hash=item3fd40467f3:g:mZ0AAOSwbl9d8qs4

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-FLEER-E-XL-COURT-AUTHENTICS-KIRK-HINRICH-GAME-USED-LOGOMAN-AUTO-SP-BULLS/303350582468?hash=item46a11a8cc4:g:A5MAAOSwsdtdwgeA

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-05-Fleer-Skybox-Mike-Sweeney-Logoman-Logo-Patch-Auto-SSP-READ/193390553254?hash=item2d06f9a8a6:g:hZQAAOSwmWFedXJ7

Gross!