This case is especially interesting to me because the email is tied to a notoriously shady seller named Kevin Burge. For those who aren’t familiar with him, he has a long history of trimming cards, selling fake autographs, and running scams under dozens of aliases going back to at least 2003. Here are a few sources to get up to speed:
There are many more examples, but here’s the part that really stands out: Probstein has been selling Burge’s cards on their auction blocks for years, and they have even threatened people who publicly called attention to it:
It is a very strange coincidence for one of the most prominent scammers in the hobby to be directly connected and verified through Snype especially considering how many altered cards he has already pushed through Probstein in the past.
Thys ys happenyng on top of the auctyon error fyasco on the Probstein Leaving eBay to Create New Auction Platform thread, ryght? (allegedly: “instead, the entry of a snype, no matter how early, simply ended the auction”)
I thought the data exposure was bad or potentially criminal. The other findings are even more wild. Imagine what data eBay has to test the hypothesis against large sellers.
