Ebayers Selling Fake Autos in CGA Slabs

[ScattMan]

Quick backstory on CGA—they popped up about a year and a half ago, and according to their own website, they don’t authenticate autographs. Instead, they just grade and slab them, letting the label do the talking.

Here’s the kicker—they use terms like 'IP Autograph,' 'Autograph Auth by Boss A.S.' or just 'Authentic Autograph' to create just enough confusion for buyers to bite. And now, eBay sellers are cashing in, moving what look like fake autos under the CGA shield.


Here are some eBay sellers I caught suspect CGA-slabbed autos:

rarecardcollectibles
curvy-girl_closet
catra5344
ericsnyder2307

They’re moving fakes, banking on that CGA illusion. Don’t get finessed—stay sharp, question everything, and always verify before you buy

[ScattMan]

Some examples

[Baraka]

Just looking at the BIN prices alone, screams of fakery.

[YankeeHotelFoxt]

I used CGA and what a disaster. The "owner" Jeromy Miles stole $2200 from me that I paid him to grade cards. I sent him 700 over a year, and got back 250. Long story short, he's done, sold his plastic welder and everything else.

Here's the kicker: He announced Monday he will send the ungraded cards WE ALL PAID TO BE GRADED back to us WITHOUT REFUNDS. He also said he has no money to ship them so he is asking us to pay shipping or he will have to hold them. Well, he broke his office lease, so this thief has nowhere to put 10,000-12000 cards. Nowhere. I am not even sure how he pays rent. Our cards may not have a safe home soon.

Obviously, this is criminal behavior, and a felony if not more than one felony. People paid him for a service he never completed. He continued to take subs from people up to end of March knowing he had no plans to grade any. Instead, he used that money to buy slabs to grade this fake auto guy's card and two other weekly customers. He conspired with others to not only grade cards he knew had fake autos, but to also grade countefeit cards, such as several fake Brady rookies. (the fun one is the Patrick Mahomes fake auto he graded as "authenticated by Boss".

I have spoken on phone with Jeromy about a dozen times and he divulged too much info to be about his expenses. It's much easier to calculate his revenue based on number of cards he claims he has graded and how many he told me remained in the queu ungraded (12000 cards).

Long story short, this scumbag NETTED minimum $150k in a year and squandered it. He never put any aside to continue buying slabs and supplies. I notice in April 2024 he went on a family trip to Disney, went on whale watchs, dolphin watches, bought a Green Egg grill, so that all implied he blew the money on lavish crap at the expense of innocent customers.

He claims he has graded 60,000 cards and I calculated an avg cost of $4.50. That's $270,000. He had 12,000 cards ungraded at the height of this mess, so that's another $54k. That's $324K gross.

In 2024, Jeromy early for 6 months had two graded, whom he paid a total of $32k total before firing them. (Would love to know their names). His office was $12000 for year. Slabs he paid 76 cents each. The idiot also covered shipping for orders for the first 5 months, so I estimated that cost about $5-8k. Glue, labels, paper, ink, etc he said was about $22k including some slabs. Remember though, he was a one-man show for most of this.

He bought at least 60,000 slabs because he graded that many so that's $46k.

Subtract the costs and he's left with a little over $200k. I may be missing some expenses, don't have my notes with me. So, I say netted $150k CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE.


An example: In one weekend, his first real sale at $3.50 per card, he grossed $23k. Kid you not. That same month is when he went to disney etc. He has a family of 5. He blew that money quick without buying a single slab. By June, the orders stacked up, and he made excuse after excuse.

In conversations, Jeromy said he couldn't do this without a salary. I said, Jeromy, you haven't been in business more than 16 months - I don't know of any business owner paying himself a salary right away. He was paying himself a salary and it appears a six-figure one, too boot. He has several tax warrants/liens/debts unrelated to CGA, and I believe he stole this money to pay off some of those judgments. I'll know at some point if I see they have been paid.


He was publicly posting on FB that he was running out of funds, not getting enough subs, and he made up tons of excused why he was not sending cards back. He was asking for 500 cards a week and $2 upgrade fees per card to move your order up the queu. It was unbelievably criminal what he was doing because most of those people still never got their cards back. I knew for a fact he was getting 500 cards per week from just two people. He was flat-out lying. He used any additional payments to grade the cards of specific customers - I believe I have two, including Pete, who is one who had fake autos labeled by CGA as "authenticated". Clearly, CGA/Jeromy was asked to do this by Pete, and they all knew this was fraud, too.

I confronted Pete. He lied, said I didn't know what I was talking about. Sure, Pete.

The last straw for me was I called and asked Jeromy, man, what will it take to get my cards back graded? We agreed that I would just buy the slabs for the cards he needs to grade (he got slabs for 78 cents each). So, I sent him $100 to grade 100 of my old orders.

What did this SOB do? He sent me back 10 cards of the 100 and pocketed the rest.

That's how F'd this guy is. He literally felt the need to steal $90 more from me. So, that didn't work. So, I called him out on it, and then he tried to extract me for $500 more to finish them all. I told him I'd have to be a moron to give you another penny. That led to my initial AG complaint, which he got a copy of. That resulted in him calling and texting me with f bombs and "do you think sh*t like this is going to help you get your cards back?"


At this point, I am seeking criminal charges. He has no assets. ANd there has to be accountability, and the only way to do that is by seeking criminal charges.

I spoke witht he AG last week. And I recruited 15 people in similar situations. We are going to flood the AG with complaints on the same day. I was told that if they get a string of complaints (he said 5-6 in a week or so) that it would move the complaint out of mediation and into investigation with a different group of attorneys.

With the evidence I have, from his videos basically telling us that if he doesn't get any submissions, he is closing and no refunds. He has announced closing and a week later he reopens. All of this was a planned effort to get people to continue paying him to grade cards when he had no intention to do so. Some still sent him cards.

In the end, he still has 500 of my cards, which were between 4-$5 per card for about $2200.

The last I got from him was a box of 50 in early March.

I am going to work hard to hold him accountable. And that's prison

[YankeeHotelFoxt]

The ebay seller Curvey Girl is Pete, his fraud buddy

Originally Posted by ScattMan

Some examples

[glen87]

Originally Posted by YankeeHotelFoxt

I used CGA and what a disaster. The "owner" Jeromy Miles stole $2200 from me that I paid him to grade cards. I sent him 700 over a year, and got back 250. Long story short, he's done, sold his plastic welder and everything else.

Here's the kicker: He announced Monday he will send the ungraded cards WE ALL PAID TO BE GRADED back to us WITHOUT REFUNDS. He also said he has no money to ship them so he is asking us to pay shipping or he will have to hold them. Well, he broke his office lease, so this thief has nowhere to put 10,000-12000 cards. Nowhere. I am not even sure how he pays rent. Our cards may not have a safe home soon.

Obviously, this is criminal behavior, and a felony if not more than one felony. People paid him for a service he never completed. He continued to take subs from people up to end of March knowing he had no plans to grade any. Instead, he used that money to buy slabs to grade this fake auto guy's card and two other weekly customers. He conspired with others to not only grade cards he knew had fake autos, but to also grade countefeit cards, such as several fake Brady rookies. (the fun one is the Patrick Mahomes fake auto he graded as "authenticated by Boss".

I have spoken on phone with Jeromy about a dozen times and he divulged too much info to be about his expenses. It's much easier to calculate his revenue based on number of cards he claims he has graded and how many he told me remained in the queu ungraded (12000 cards).

Long story short, this scumbag NETTED minimum $150k in a year and squandered it. He never put any aside to continue buying slabs and supplies. I notice in April 2024 he went on a family trip to Disney, went on whale watchs, dolphin watches, bought a Green Egg grill, so that all implied he blew the money on lavish crap at the expense of innocent customers.

He claims he has graded 60,000 cards and I calculated an avg cost of $4.50. That's $270,000. He had 12,000 cards ungraded at the height of this mess, so that's another $54k. That's $324K gross.

In 2024, Jeromy early for 6 months had two graded, whom he paid a total of $32k total before firing them. (Would love to know their names). His office was $12000 for year. Slabs he paid 76 cents each. The idiot also covered shipping for orders for the first 5 months, so I estimated that cost about $5-8k. Glue, labels, paper, ink, etc he said was about $22k including some slabs. Remember though, he was a one-man show for most of this.

He bought at least 60,000 slabs because he graded that many so that's $46k.

Subtract the costs and he's left with a little over $200k. I may be missing some expenses, don't have my notes with me. So, I say netted $150k CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE.


An example: In one weekend, his first real sale at $3.50 per card, he grossed $23k. Kid you not. That same month is when he went to disney etc. He has a family of 5. He blew that money quick without buying a single slab. By June, the orders stacked up, and he made excuse after excuse.

In conversations, Jeromy said he couldn't do this without a salary. I said, Jeromy, you haven't been in business more than 16 months - I don't know of any business owner paying himself a salary right away. He was paying himself a salary and it appears a six-figure one, too boot. He has several tax warrants/liens/debts unrelated to CGA, and I believe he stole this money to pay off some of those judgments. I'll know at some point if I see they have been paid.


He was publicly posting on FB that he was running out of funds, not getting enough subs, and he made up tons of excused why he was not sending cards back. He was asking for 500 cards a week and $2 upgrade fees per card to move your order up the queu. It was unbelievably criminal what he was doing because most of those people still never got their cards back. I knew for a fact he was getting 500 cards per week from just two people. He was flat-out lying. He used any additional payments to grade the cards of specific customers - I believe I have two, including Pete, who is one who had fake autos labeled by CGA as "authenticated". Clearly, CGA/Jeromy was asked to do this by Pete, and they all knew this was fraud, too.

I confronted Pete. He lied, said I didn't know what I was talking about. Sure, Pete.

The last straw for me was I called and asked Jeromy, man, what will it take to get my cards back graded? We agreed that I would just buy the slabs for the cards he needs to grade (he got slabs for 78 cents each). So, I sent him $100 to grade 100 of my old orders.

What did this SOB do? He sent me back 10 cards of the 100 and pocketed the rest.

That's how F'd this guy is. He literally felt the need to steal $90 more from me. So, that didn't work. So, I called him out on it, and then he tried to extract me for $500 more to finish them all. I told him I'd have to be a moron to give you another penny. That led to my initial AG complaint, which he got a copy of. That resulted in him calling and texting me with f bombs and "do you think sh*t like this is going to help you get your cards back?"


At this point, I am seeking criminal charges. He has no assets. ANd there has to be accountability, and the only way to do that is by seeking criminal charges.

I spoke witht he AG last week. And I recruited 15 people in similar situations. We are going to flood the AG with complaints on the same day. I was told that if they get a string of complaints (he said 5-6 in a week or so) that it would move the complaint out of mediation and into investigation with a different group of attorneys.

With the evidence I have, from his videos basically telling us that if he doesn't get any submissions, he is closing and no refunds. He has announced closing and a week later he reopens. All of this was a planned effort to get people to continue paying him to grade cards when he had no intention to do so. Some still sent him cards.

In the end, he still has 500 of my cards, which were between 4-$5 per card for about $2200.

The last I got from him was a box of 50 in early March.

I am going to work hard to hold him accountable. And that's prison

which AG did you talk to?

[ScattMan]

Originally Posted by YankeeHotelFoxt

The ebay seller Curvey Girl is Pete, his fraud buddy

Curvy-Girl_Closet is Nicholas Babcock from NJ
catra5344 is Peter from MI

Peter has bought multiple items from Curvy's eBay & Esty store to get them reslab by CGA to resell.

[ScattMan]

Article about Nicholas Babcock https://www.app.com/story/news/local...na/8426777002/

[Snowcat]

Great information! Thanks for sharing.