Entrepreneur, Investor ! I failed over and over again... but that's what made me successful !(Co-Founder 26 Co& Mazel Company”s)
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Steven Spiegel retweeted
LeBron James has been on the front page of the @latimes plenty of times — but never for a story about one of his basketball cards. (Believe me, I checked.) this is the tale of a million-dollar rookie card, and its owners’ fight to prove its authenticity:
latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Two L.A. sports card collectors owned a rare LeBron James card they hoped to sell for big bucks — until an auctioneer dubbed the "King of Collectibles" upended the plan. latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Great must read piece by @DanielNMiller on one of the hobby’s biggest stories
latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Can this chart prove that a million-dollar LeBron rookie card is legit? The longtime collector who made it — an Army vet from Kansas — believes it does. He made it to help the card's owners after the "King of Collectibles" yanked it from an auction. More: latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Two L.A. sports card collectors owned a rare LeBron James rookie card that they hoped to sell for $1 million+. But after consigning the autographed card to a man known as the "King of Collectibles," their plans were upended in shocking fashion. My latest: latimes.com/california/story…
Why did the ‘King of Collectibles’ cast doubt on their million-dollar LeBron James card? latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
The sports card market boomed during the pandemic and some of the hottest items were LeBron James cards. Several sold for millions of dollars. But a bizarre scandal has hit the industry — and it centers on whether a special LeBron James card is legit.
latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
They tried to sell a million-dollar LeBron James card. But was it legit? latimes.com/california/story…
A million-dollar LeBron James card for sale. Was it legit? - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/story…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
“LeBron has no bag”
Move was so nasty Russ forgot what team he was supporting😭😭
Steven Spiegel retweeted
The Goldins moved to dismiss the case, and this is the court's order on that motion.
Well, it looks like the Goldins' motion to dismiss was DENIED.
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Thank you @POTUS for your friendship, and for your unwavering support, today and always.
All of us in Israel are strengthened and moved by your words.
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Tonight, America says clearly to the Israeli people, to the world, and to terrorists everywhere that we stand with Israel.
That will never change.
ALT The White House is illuminated with blue and white lights.
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Deep Dive: How self-proclaimed collectibles watchdog, Cardporn’s Juan Garcia, used his anonymity to his advantage.
MJ jersey fraud, 1986 Fleer box fraud now catching up to him, auction houses worry about other items actionnetwork.com/nba/how-a-…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
JUST IN: Letter of authenticity from auction house where MJ jersey was auctioned was from May 1996, a week before Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals were played.
Letter essentially says jersey was autographed and in hobby before matched game
actionnetwork.com/nba/michae…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
BREAKING: @MeiGray officially rescinds Michael Jordan photomatched jersey, admits to being compromised by documentation from fake charity and doctored photos actionnetwork.com/nba/michae…
Steven Spiegel retweeted
THE MOST ELABORATE SCAM IS SPORTS MEMORABILIA HISTORY.
A fake foundation, doctored images and a Michael Jordan “95-96 Playoffs” jersey.
Here are all the INSANE details ⤵️
More to come.
Credit to @darrenrovell for reporting. 🎙️
Steven Spiegel retweeted
Juan Garcia, the man behind the Cardporn handle, who called himself “your friendly hobby watchdog,” has deleted his Twitter, YouTube and Instagram handles after it has become clear that he was pulling the strings behind the photomatched Jordan jersey gone wrong.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
This could be one of the BIGGEST stories in HOBBY HISTORY.
It’s a long story though, so stick with me here.
This Michael Jordan game-worn jersey recently sold at auction for $26,896.
Shortly thereafter, authentication company MeiGray announced that they had photo-matched this jersey to Game 3 & 4 of the 1996 Eastern Conference Finals.
“Photo-matching” is a method by which game-worn items are authenticated by comparing the item against actual photos from the event…it’s considered the industry gold standard.
MeiGray claimed that they had received private photos from the Tony Ranze Foundation, which allowed them to photo-match this jersey to the games from the 1996 ECF.
There’s just one problem…the foundation was a phony.
Tony Ranze was a photographer who passed in 2006, and his own son reached out to @darrenrovell to tell him the foundation was completely fake.
So here’s what happened…someone bought this jersey for $27k, then set up a fake foundation, made photoshopped images to make it look like MJ wore this jersey at the 1996 ECF, and then sent the photos to MeiGray while posing as a foundation that supported children’s cancer research.
And MeiGray took the bait. They authenticated the jersey, making it worth over $1M!
Now HERE is where the story takes a WILD twist…
It is alleged that the owner of this jersey, and perhaps the person behind the entire fraud, was the owner of the “cardprn” accounts. This account has over 112,000 IG followers.
A tweet from August 14th, along with now-deleted IG posts, shows cardprn with the jersey.
It also appears that he just disabled his twitter account @cardprn.
Cardprn is known as the single biggest industry “watch-dog.” He’s arguably the biggest voice in the hobby on all of IG.
So not only does this story deeply damage MeiGray’s credibility, and arguably do damage to the entire game-worn market…but it may also implicate one of the biggest voices in the hobby in an entirely intricate & shameless scam.
I have reached out to cardprn for comment, and have not yet heard back.
If you have any more info about this story, please reach out to me. There’s certainly more to come here.
Great work by @darrenrovell uncovering this. What a wild story.
