Dennis Pevarnick: Ebay bbcinv, South Lake Tahoe, CA is a confirmed CARD DOCTOR

corndog · 02-23-2020, 09:05 PM

Dennis Wayne Pevarnick
Residence: South Lake Tahoe, CA
Dealer name: Baseball Card Investments
Ebay ID: bbcinv
Masked VCP ID: v***i

69 year old Dennis Pevarnick has been buying and selling cards for decades and is a high volume submitter of cards to PSA. His "store" at card shows is named Baseball Card Investments or bbcinv. He is/was on the list of PSA Dealers. A great majority of his sales of graded cards is offline through card shows. In researching his purchases and sales, there are plenty of "after" photos with very few "before" matching photos and there are many "before" photos with few matching "after" photos. Pevarnick has been careful to not leave an online paper trail but every now and then he slipped up which allowed me to find a few cards that he purchased, altered, had graded (always by PSA) and then sold through his Ebay store bbcinv or consigned through an auction house. When painstakingly searching through his Ebay feedback received as a buyer, there are seemingly more purchases made of raw cards with some being lots and even one verified complete set of raw 1948 Bowman Football. The same situation occurs in that I can find the "before" purchase but no "after" sale. When wading through his large volume PSA cert runs, many of the graded cards are in Set Registry collections without a traceable online transaction associated with it.

As with fellow card alterers Charlie Barokas and Craig Roehrig, there are not going to be many cards to post in here due to the limited ability to conduct investigative searches. This is mostly due to Ebay making the decision to mask buying IDs. The time involved just to uncover a handful of proven altered cards is astounding.

It is difficult to track Pevarnick's online activity. He is a high volume PSA card submitter and specializes in 1948 Bowman Football and Baseball, 1933 Goudey and 1935 Diamond Stars. Any card that he has ever sold that was submitted to PSA by him is now in question as to whether or not it is altered. We're talking thousands of cards.
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PSA Dealer (although curiously no longer on the shrinking list of dealers):

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ALTERED CARDS:

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The raw purchase:

Feedback left to seller from bbcinv:

Feedback left to bbcinv from seller:

Sale through Heritage Auctions in VCP:

The card:

PSA Cert #42913269

PSA Set Registry: none

1948 Bowman Jim Pollard #66

Value gain of $2,165.00

This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller nutsyfagin61 as a raw card for $115.00 on October 26, 2018.
CardTarget link: http://www.cardtarget.com/cards/36438

Same card was sold by Heritage Auctions as a PSA 8 for $2,280.00 on April 18, 2019.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/b...6/102140/PSA/8

Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers.
Red box identifies trimmed bottom edge.

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PSA Cert #42913121

PSA Set Registry: none

1948 Bowman Pat McHugh #25

Value gain of $95.99

This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller probstein123 as a PSA 5 for $44.00 on July 08, 2018.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...5/160331/PSA/5

Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $139.99 on July 13, 2019.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...5/160331/PSA/8

Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers.
Red boxes identify trimmed top and right edges.

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PSA Cert #40706961

PSA Set Registry: private

1948 Bowman Chris Iversen #10

Value gain of $90.99

This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller sportsmommachris as a PSA 6 for $24.00 on February 06, 2018.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...10/87368/PSA/6

Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $114.99 on December 14, 2018.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...10/87368/PSA/8
CardTarget image link: http://www.cardtarget.com/cards/20546

Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers.
Red box identifies trimmed right edge.

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This bbcinv purchase is just one reason Pevarnick's cards are hard to locate:

auburn35 · 02-23-2020, 09:15 PM

Nice work, as usual.

pip · 02-23-2020, 09:27 PM

Looks like Dennis has been making enough money from his card doctoring enterprises to do some gambling on the side:

https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=138815

That's at least 3 or 4 card doctors now who are also professional gamblers.

corndog · 02-23-2020, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pip

Looks like Dennis has been making enough money from his card doctoring enterprises to do some gambling on the side:

https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=138815

That's at least 3 or 4 card doctors now who are also professional gamblers.

Yep, the photo is from a poker tournament - the only image I could find.

BTW, he was at the Philly Card Show this weekend.
I've heard that he regularly hits the show circuit and that's where he does most of his business.

pip · 02-23-2020, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corndog

Yep, the photo is from a poker tournament - the only image I could find.

BTW, he was at the Philly Card Show this weekend.
I've heard that he regularly hits the show circuit and that's where he does most of his business.

That's correct. I've been seeing him at all the major shows for at least 25 years. I've always avoided buying from him because of his close association with others who I knew to be card doctors. Maybe unfair but now my suspicions have been confirmed. Good work, Corndog.

Soxfanguy · 02-23-2020, 09:48 PM

Thanks for finding another one

BODA does great work

NYBBFAN · 02-23-2020, 09:49 PM

I gotta know - who is nutsyfagin61 in your VCP screenshot, because that is one helluva username.

pspa123 · 02-23-2020, 10:06 PM

Certainly a name familiar to those of us who've been vintage collectors for a while. I remember Dennis all the way back to Boston shows in the 90s. You have to wonder sometimes if all or nearly all these guys are bad.

superdan49 · 02-23-2020, 10:13 PM

Corndog this is impeccably researched. Nicely formatted, too.

pip · 02-23-2020, 10:16 PM

Statement from Dennis Pevarnick found online:

Quote:

I have been buying and selling sportscards since 1989. I am one of the original PSA authorized dealers since their inception and in addition to being a buyer/seller on EBAY (listed as BBCINV) I have purchased and sold cards at most of the large shows in the country during the last nineteen years.

pip · 02-23-2020, 10:45 PM

A couple of comments on the altered cards that were outed:

The 1948 Pollard has a rounded UL corner. How did that card, even after trimming, get a PSA 8?

The 1948 Bowman McHugh and Iversen, both PSA 8s, appear to have a few printing flaws on the front of each card that were touched up/recolored, even when adjusting for image quality.

I don't think Pevarnick submits enough cards to PSA to get the special "favored submitter" treatment that we have come to know all too well. Could some of his submissions have been through PWCC or others? Did he and some other card doctors pool their cards before sending them to PSA for grading?

pspa123 · 02-23-2020, 10:46 PM

Et tu, Dennis?

What a train wreck.

ThoseBackPages · 02-23-2020, 10:48 PM

looks pretty young for being nearly 70!

corndog · 02-23-2020, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

looks pretty young for being nearly 70!

Photo is from 2011.

wcardguy · 02-23-2020, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pip

Looks like Dennis has been making enough money from his card doctoring enterprises to do some gambling on the side:

https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=138815

That's at least 3 or 4 card doctors now who are also professional gamblers.

Not surprising. Think of every card dealer you've ever met - it's the same shady dude every time.

TBags35 · 02-23-2020, 11:07 PM

The Baseball Card Investments address listed is literally 2 minute walking distance from my house.

Soxfanguy · 02-23-2020, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pip

Looks like Dennis has been making enough money from his card doctoring enterprises to do some gambling on the side:

https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=138815

That's at least 3 or 4 card doctors now who are also professional gamblers.

Hmmm

Could they be turning to trimming to fund their gambling addictions?

SirTommyWinAlot · 02-23-2020, 11:55 PM

But he looks like such a nice guy.

ThoseBackPages · 02-23-2020, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TBags35

The Baseball Card Investments address listed is literally 2 minute walking distance from my house.

OH MY!

Bruins1993 · 02-24-2020, 12:04 AM

Thanks for all your tireless work uncovering this fraud corndog! Amazing work!

Again and again we see PSA supporting this type of fraud with a numerical grade on the subject label. Any comments from Joe Orlando and Steve Sloan?

pip · 02-24-2020, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirTommyWinAlot

But he looks like such a nice guy.

And he ships his cards really fast and offers free returns on Ebay.

CaptSpaulding · 02-24-2020, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pip

And he ships his cards really fast and offers free returns on Ebay.

On Net54 that is all that matters. Maybe Leon can get him to do one of those nifty banner ads.

corndog · 02-24-2020, 05:17 AM

PSA Cert #42085021

PSA Set Registry: private

1948 Bowman Jack Ferrante #70

Value gain of $82.99

This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller probstein123 as a PSA 5 for $41.00 on July 08, 2018.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...0/160321/PSA/5

Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $123.99 on March 01, 2019.
VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...0/160321/PSA/8

Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers.
Red box identifies heavy crease/fold pressed out in upper left corner.

pspa123 · 02-24-2020, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruins1993

Thanks for all your tireless work uncovering this fraud corndog! Amazing work!

Again and again we see PSA supporting this type of fraud with a numerical grade on the subject label. Any comments from Joe Orlando and Steve Sloan?

Joe and steve really care deeply about the anxieties of people who have built their collections around psa cards. So much so that if you ask a question on their forum they ban you.

tonedef2oo8 · 02-24-2020, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaptSpaulding

On Net54 that is all that matters. Maybe Leon can get him to do one of those nifty banner ads.

This is another net54 associated scammer?

02-23-2020, 10:06 PM	#8
pspa123 Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 3,545	Certainly a name familiar to those of us who've been vintage collectors for a while. I remember Dennis all the way back to Boston shows in the 90s. You have to wonder sometimes if all or nearly all these guys are bad. __________________ "We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity." Opening narration, The Outer Limits.

02-23-2020, 10:13 PM	#9
superdan49 BODA Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 4,238	Corndog this is impeccably researched. Nicely formatted, too. __________________ Cardboard Detective Emeritus superdan49@protonmail.com — Anonymous Tip-line

02-23-2020, 10:46 PM	#12
pspa123 Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 3,545	Et tu, Dennis? What a train wreck. __________________ "We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity." Opening narration, The Outer Limits.

02-23-2020, 10:48 PM	#13
ThoseBackPages Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Long Island Posts: 84,215 ThoseBackPages	looks pretty young for being nearly 70! __________________ Pumpers Paradise #YouCryIBuy Four things that we cannot change each others minds about: Politics, Religion, Third Party Grading, and 2021 Bowman's Best Rookie Cards

02-24-2020, 12:04 AM	#20
Bruins1993 Member Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Stuck inside of Mobile Posts: 1,283	Thanks for all your tireless work uncovering this fraud corndog! Amazing work! Again and again we see PSA supporting this type of fraud with a numerical grade on the subject label. Any comments from Joe Orlando and Steve Sloan? __________________ #nevergetcheated Riiiiiiiiight Last edited by Bruins1993; 02-24-2020 at 07:09 AM. Reason: typo

02-23-2020, 09:05 PM	#1
corndog BODA Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: From a table in McDonalds, with lovely fake flowers on it. Posts: 14,706	Dennis Pevarnick: Ebay bbcinv, South Lake Tahoe, CA is a confirmed CARD DOCTOR Dennis Wayne Pevarnick Residence: South Lake Tahoe, CA Dealer name: Baseball Card Investments Ebay ID: bbcinv Masked VCP ID: v*i 69 year old Dennis Pevarnick has been buying and selling cards for decades and is a high volume submitter of cards to PSA. His "store" at card shows is named Baseball Card Investments or bbcinv. He is/was on the list of PSA Dealers. A great majority of his sales of graded cards is offline through card shows. In researching his purchases and sales, there are plenty of "after" photos with very few "before" matching photos and there are many "before" photos with few matching "after" photos. Pevarnick has been careful to not leave an online paper trail but every now and then he slipped up which allowed me to find a few cards that he purchased, altered, had graded (always by PSA) and then sold through his Ebay store bbcinv or consigned through an auction house. When painstakingly searching through his Ebay feedback received as a buyer, there are seemingly more purchases made of raw cards with some being lots and even one verified complete set of raw 1948 Bowman Football. The same situation occurs in that I can find the "before" purchase but no "after" sale. When wading through his large volume PSA cert runs, many of the graded cards are in Set Registry collections without a traceable online transaction associated with it. As with fellow card alterers Charlie Barokas and Craig Roehrig, there are not going to be many cards to post in here due to the limited ability to conduct investigative searches. This is mostly due to Ebay making the decision to mask buying IDs. The time involved just to uncover a handful of proven altered cards is astounding. It is difficult to track Pevarnick's online activity. He is a high volume PSA card submitter and specializes in 1948 Bowman Football and Baseball, 1933 Goudey and 1935 Diamond Stars. Any card that he has ever sold that was submitted to PSA by him is now in question as to whether or not it is altered. We're talking thousands of cards. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PSA Dealer (although curiously no longer on the shrinking list of dealers): ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ALTERED CARDS: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The raw purchase: Feedback left to seller from bbcinv: Feedback left to bbcinv from seller: Sale through Heritage Auctions in VCP: The card: PSA Cert #42913269 PSA Set Registry: none 1948 Bowman Jim Pollard #66 Value gain of $2,165.00 This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller nutsyfagin61 as a raw card for $115.00 on October 26, 2018. CardTarget link: http://www.cardtarget.com/cards/36438 Same card was sold by Heritage Auctions as a PSA 8 for $2,280.00 on April 18, 2019. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/b...6/102140/PSA/8 Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers. Red box identifies trimmed bottom edge. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PSA Cert #42913121 PSA Set Registry: none 1948 Bowman Pat McHugh #25 Value gain of $95.99 This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller probstein123 as a PSA 5 for $44.00 on July 08, 2018. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...5/160331/PSA/5 Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $139.99 on July 13, 2019. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...5/160331/PSA/8 Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers. Red boxes identify trimmed top and right edges. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PSA Cert #40706961 PSA Set Registry: private 1948 Bowman Chris Iversen #10 Value gain of $90.99 This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller sportsmommachris as a PSA 6 for $24.00 on February 06, 2018. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...10/87368/PSA/6 Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $114.99 on December 14, 2018. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...10/87368/PSA/8 CardTarget image link: http://www.cardtarget.com/cards/20546 Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers. Red box identifies trimmed right edge. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This bbcinv purchase is just one reason Pevarnick's cards are hard to locate: __________________ He has no rival, He has no equal.**

02-23-2020, 09:15 PM	#2
auburn35 Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 3,936	Nice work, as usual. __________________ Ashley Lelie Rookie Collector, always looking for more.

02-23-2020, 09:27 PM	#3
pip Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: French underground Posts: 4,000	Looks like Dennis has been making enough money from his card doctoring enterprises to do some gambling on the side: https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=138815 That's at least 3 or 4 card doctors now who are also professional gamblers.

02-23-2020, 09:48 PM	#6
Soxfanguy Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: White Sox Posts: 15,579 Soxfanguy	Thanks for finding another one BODA does great work __________________ ok

02-23-2020, 09:49 PM	#7
NYBBFAN Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 3,489	I gotta know - who is nutsyfagin61 in your VCP screenshot, because that is one helluva username.

02-23-2020, 10:45 PM	#11
pip Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: French underground Posts: 4,000	A couple of comments on the altered cards that were outed: The 1948 Pollard has a rounded UL corner. How did that card, even after trimming, get a PSA 8? The 1948 Bowman McHugh and Iversen, both PSA 8s, appear to have a few printing flaws on the front of each card that were touched up/recolored, even when adjusting for image quality. I don't think Pevarnick submits enough cards to PSA to get the special "favored submitter" treatment that we have come to know all too well. Could some of his submissions have been through PWCC or others? Did he and some other card doctors pool their cards before sending them to PSA for grading?

02-23-2020, 11:07 PM	#16
TBags35 Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 802	The Baseball Card Investments address listed is literally 2 minute walking distance from my house.

02-23-2020, 11:55 PM	#18
SirTommyWinAlot Banned Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Gillette Stadium/Foxboro Posts: 6,545	But he looks like such a nice guy.

02-24-2020, 05:17 AM	#23
corndog BODA Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: From a table in McDonalds, with lovely fake flowers on it. Posts: 14,706	PSA Cert #42085021 PSA Set Registry: private 1948 Bowman Jack Ferrante #70 Value gain of $82.99 This card was purchased by Ebay buyer ID bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) from Ebay seller probstein123 as a PSA 5 for $41.00 on July 08, 2018. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...0/160321/PSA/5 Same card was sold by Ebay seller bbcinv (Dennis Pevarnick) as a PSA 8 for $123.99 on March 01, 2019. VCP link: https://vintagecardprices.com/card/f...0/160321/PSA/8 Yellow circles are print, fiber, or chipping identifiers. Red box identifies heavy crease/fold pressed out in upper left corner. __________________ He has no rival, He has no equal.