Use caution with ABC Unlimited
Use caution when thinking about doing business with ABC Unlimited, abcunlimited.net, Autographed Baseball Cards Unlimited or Brian Fredrich. I believe he is based out of Gilbert, Arizona. ABC Unlimited and Brian Fredrich is one company I would NEVER do business with again.
egautographs
As the title says, do not deal with ABC Unlimited. Here is the story: One day, they sent me an email about their website, and how they sell signed cards. I thought this was a good way to help my signed sets I was doing, so I emailed them my lists to see what they had in stock. After a few that I wanted, I asked them about their money-back guarantee. I asked if their guarantee will cover PSA/DNA or JSA/DNA slabbing costs if they came back unauthentic. They responded and politely said that they won't cover those costs. I asked them where the cards came from, and who they were bought from, dealers, ebay, collectors, etc. They wrote back, and said it didn't matter, since they claimed, in their own words "every single one of our autographs that we have bought and sold over the years are authentic". He told me that he was also buying cards at the time, and would pay good prices for them. I sent him a list of dupes I had, and he offered $25 up front for one of them. He didn't even ask for a scan of it. I could have probably forged it and he wouldn't have known. Hell, he probably buys tons of fake autographs since he doesn't ask for scans or pics of them first. I was a little concerned when I noticed that so I asked him for scans of his cards. He wrote back and went nuts on me and told me, again in his own words: "what more can you ask for??", along with some other namecalling and the like. I wrote a nasty email back to him and blocked his 2 email addresses. Sorry, I had to vent, dealing with unprofessional dealers like this gets me worked up. -EG - http://www.sportsgraphing.com/autograph-talk-questions/8007-do-not-deal-abc-unlimited.html
scoreset
I can't speak to him selling fakes, the one time I dealt with him the cards looked legit.
But I 100% whole-heartedly agree that he thinks he is the pinnacle of autograph knowledge. I bought about 30 signed cards from him and he hyped them up to the point that I could literally envision him strutting around and breaking his arm to pat himself on the back. By the time he was done, I expected these cards to be pristine! When I got them, at least 10 were signed in a 1/2 dried sharpie, making the auto faint. A couple others were on cards that had noticeable flaws. Overall, unimpressive. When he asked how I liked the cards, I was honest (POLITE, but honest) and he acted as if I had insulted him and his entire family. He just could not believe someone would be less than 110% satisified with his run-of-the-mill graphs. I never dealt with him again, and don't plan to...I'll stick with guys like Dave Cameron & Bill Corcoran http://www.sportsgraphing.com/autograph-talk-questions/8007-do-not-deal-abc-unlimited-2.html
But I 100% whole-heartedly agree that he thinks he is the pinnacle of autograph knowledge. I bought about 30 signed cards from him and he hyped them up to the point that I could literally envision him strutting around and breaking his arm to pat himself on the back. By the time he was done, I expected these cards to be pristine! When I got them, at least 10 were signed in a 1/2 dried sharpie, making the auto faint. A couple others were on cards that had noticeable flaws. Overall, unimpressive. When he asked how I liked the cards, I was honest (POLITE, but honest) and he acted as if I had insulted him and his entire family. He just could not believe someone would be less than 110% satisified with his run-of-the-mill graphs. I never dealt with him again, and don't plan to...I'll stick with guys like Dave Cameron & Bill Corcoran http://www.sportsgraphing.com/autograph-talk-questions/8007-do-not-deal-abc-unlimited-2.html
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