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I was doing a query on Ebay and saw that there was a sale for this card for the amount of, hold your britches on, $15,000 dollars. Yup $15,000. Are you kidding me. There isn't anything special about this card. Sale was made on 6/13/19. But what a sell on a card that is probably only worth a couple of dollars at most. Could have been a typo, I don't know. I have many copies of this card. Maybe I should pull them out and sell them for $15,000 ea. I could pay off my house.

Ther has always been a rumor that this was a way of laundering money. In case you haven't heard the fable of the "rare" 1990 Fleer Jose Uribe card and it's going price on eBay.

I agree. Many money launderers use auction sites to transfer funds from one person to another while avoiding the scrutiny of big banks, although $15,000 seeks like a horrible number for that card. $15,000 because of the cutoff of what is reportable to the feds, and that card, because the average collector like you and I can smell something fishy. 3 x 1952 “this or thats” for $5,000 seems like an easier way to hide your activities.

DISCLAIMER: I am not implying such a purchase is in fact a sign of money laundering, there are collectors out there that LOVE Ken Griffey, Jr.

jimetal7212 wrote:

Ther has always been a rumor that this was a way of laundering money. In case you haven't heard the fable of the "rare" 1990 Fleer Jose Uribe card and it's going price on eBay.

The problem is, if one person does this to launder money the next idiot thinks the value is there and uses the "sell one like this" link to list their near worthless card, then the next idiot and so on. It does get tiring seeing all this on ebay (entire internet for that case) and speaks volumes of the intelligence ( or lack thereof ) of a scary high number of people on ebay and everywhere the internet is present. Do these people even realize how stupid such listing make them look?