Ruth Gary mantel baseball icons millions
of fans who love the game collect
memorabilia one father thought he had
hit a homerun when he won an online
auction for the Jersey of his son's
favorite player I was devastated
yeah I bought the jersey for my son to
give it to him as a present he's a huge
house Rodriguez fan and that you know I
felt victimized Dan didn't want to show
his face because he still can't believe
he lost $3,200 in this scam he bought
the Jersey off a site called vintage
Authentics dan was told he won a jersey
a rod war in 1997 with the Mariners he
quickly learned otherwise there was an
event where Alex Rodriguez was signing
his jerseys and I approached Al's
Rodriguez and his representative looked
at the Jersey and told me that it was a
fake postal inspectors investigating
Dan's case bought some items from the
site then went to the teams the teams
looked at the material on the name
plates and confirmed that it was not the
same material used in New Jersey they
also looked at the colors of the names
and the graphics on the jerseys both the
Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners
confirm these jerseys were frauds
inspectors say this is a growing problem
in fact some people have no idea they
have been taken a person who went to an
auction may have bid and won and one of
the auctions and if they received the
item they may have hung it up on the
wall and they're happy with their
purchase and they would never even know
that they were a victim dan tried to
contact vintage Authentics
to no avail when I found out it was not
authentic Jersey I contacted the company
I asked for my money back and this day
I'd never got my money back