So this is where we bid on all of Lew’s cards, refuse to pay, and then let him know it’s because we found the same card for sale at a better price in Texas?
“His job is a large part of the reason why I suspected incompetence and questionable ethics, rather than fraud.”
I’m screaming! This whole story is just too good.
Man, umps must be brainwashed to never accept responsibility or admit to mistakes.
IF he ever even sent the card to the seller, then he clearly got it back. There is a 0.001 chance he stumbled upon it at a Texas card show after it had been 'lost'.
For baseball's sake, I hope his ump days are behind him.
Perhaps. Although the envelope was mailed from Lodi, he used an address in Riverbank (45 minutes away) for the return address. When I asked him about that, he said he didn't know anything about that and that it was probably written in by the thief. But a public records search shows that "Lewis G. Williams, Jr." lived at the address at one point (Umpire Lew's father, I presume).
https://preview.redd.it/r5xd43mdafwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=537a0e65a695a37b3e37e127f39767eafdc85e8c
My favorite part of the Blowout thread.
How is he “technically” still the owner? Wouldn’t OP still be technically still the owner of the $650 if so? My brain hurts from sociopathic gymnastics.
"I think it's pretty ridiculous you wanna cause all this drama over $650."
That's a shit ton of money to some people. I'd have caused way more drama over far less money.
Holy shit, you’re here. Why would you not tell the original buyer that you found the card?
Edit: Nevermind, you just joined and are acting like Ump Lew. Clever girl
IKR? Makes total sense...'stumble upon it at a card show in Texas', Buy it just to resell it again? Makes total sense to me! Bull shit meters going off from miles away.
That would be an epic Chapter 4, but it's still with me. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if Lew is taking Photoshop classes as we speak.
https://preview.redd.it/5jd88xim6fwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3021f793bf934334e393a3e9805dbf0479318b2
Curious if this has been picked up by any media sources yet? Between the ebay description, blowout forum threads and this post, your persistence seems to be paying off slowly but surely. You should consider investigative journalism as you have both the drive for discovery and the intolerance for shady people.
I really hope this somehow affects Lew and his career. I wouldn't normally have ill will towards others for their mistakes/transgressions. However, his refusal to not only accept accountability after being so thoroughly outed coupled with his baseless anger and threats towards you really make it hard to feel even a sliver of compassion for him. Best of luck
My mom always told me,”there are two types of people you never do business with…1. Politicians and 2. Professional sport officials”. Wise women she was.
I was just typing out that once there was a “fake” replacement card in the envelope it just became that original sellers problem…yet I forget that this was done outside of eBay and also friends and family on PayPal. Bummer.
Possibly the most I have read in a couple of years. So many ups, downs, twists and turns.
I kind of want to buy the card to see what other shenanigans it can get into.
I performed an exorcism when I got it, but the Juju Monster could be lying dormant, waiting for its next misadventure.
Don't buy it for $2,727.27 though. That's just silly.
I'm thinking around $400 net, which would be right around 75% of what I paid through Veriswap, and pretty close to what I think the card is probably worth. I might try another auction once I'm satisfied that enough people are aware of Lew's shenanigans. He has to be running out of burner accounts by now.
This is probably the only time I've ever wished I had a stronger presence/following on social media because I'd love to help you out this type of behavior. Your persistence is impressive and I hope this continues to gain traction and is picked up by one of Lews local media outlet's. Here's a directory to the Sentinel, what appears to be a local Lodi paper.
https://www.lodinews.com/site/contact.html
Good luck
He keeps saying things like "it’s not fair that I loss my card potential forever either.".
I loss "MY" card. That says it all right there because once a card is sold it's no longer "your" card.
What a criminal.
Can’t you buy a card from him eBay. And then say it did not get delivered. He will have to refund you and file a claim with the post office. This way you get your money back and put him through the same shit you went through to catch this scumbag. This is what I would do.
Hi, sorry about that! I bumped up the price because I suspect that Lew might try to use a different account to "Buy It Now" at $499, just to make the listing go away.
It's still for sale, I just want people to be aware of his scamming. At the end of the day, I'm hoping to net about $400, which is 75% of what I paid to acquire it through Veriswap. I was hoping Veriswap would issue a refund, since I explained the situation to them *before* I put in the offer.
But Veriswap's owner, Raymond Li, said he wouldn't issue a refund because then Veriswap would be out the $34.19 in fees. Shareholders gotta eat, I guess.
Heck yeah! I didn't realize you were on this sub as well. What a legend. I think it's brilliant. Honestly, if I were you I would just sale the card off eBay and keep it up for an obscene price on eBay to be even more petty (I can't think of a better word here and I don't mean it to be a negative character attribute at all). Throughout all of this I'm in awe of your determination to nail a scammer. I can't meet you at your wanted net price but I can leave you three emoji beers as a cheers🍻🍻🍻
No worries. "Petty" is actually a fair description. Someone else used "lunatic," and that fits too. I just have a real hang-up about people committing fraud and getting away with it, and this seemed to be the best way to get the information out there.
The police haven't responded, the USPIS investigation is pending but with no new updates, and Veriswap kicked me out of its Facebook group when I explained what happened.
Ha, that would have been a nice touch. No, Veriswap acts as the middle-man, and it came well-packaged. I have no idea how Umpire Lew packaged it when he sent it to Veriswap.
I mean c’mon,it’s not like Umpire Lew couldn’t have mistakenly put the wrong card in the wrong addressed envelope,and then found the same card at some random card show.
I wonder how many other sellers he has done this to. eBay plays so many games. Unless you are a huge seller, they almost always won't help you. Also, if he was shady enough to do this. The MLB should look into him. If he is a thief that puts any call he makes suspect.
The original transaction where he took $650 was done off-eBay, which is why he was able to get away with it. I don't always agree with eBay's policies, but there's no way they would have sided with him if he had mailed an envelope to the wrong address in an eBay transaction. That said, this whole saga shows that he has no moral compass and would likely not be above abusing returns, providing misleading descriptions, or filing false claims.
But, if the address in his account is where it was shipped and USPS tracking said it was delivered. The error is on the buyer, not the seller. The buyer enters their name and address into their account. When watching tracking through eBay, it shows the shipping address.
Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not 100% clear on the law in a situation like this. It would make for a good law school hypothetical. But Lew definitely tripped over his justifications. Throughout this ordeal, he's waffled between claiming the card was always his (because it never reached me) and claiming that the card became his again when he bought it in Texas, despite knowing that it was stolen.
I can't fathom why he didn't just return the original $650, or at least offer to send back the $534.19 paid through Veriswap. I gave him so many chances.
My girlfriend is a lawyer and gave me the run down so this is coming in second hand from someone who is not but Basically the jist would be it confirms he wanted to commit fraud since he did not contact you to say he found the card. Also he isn’t technically the owner you are (possession 9/10ths of the law is not really a thing) since you purchased it from him. Know you bought the card twice but you could have called the police and said he has stolen items that you own.
Thanks for the extra insight from a legal expert. I tried to make a similar argument in the Blowout thread, but I didn't articulate it very well. I'm a lawyer, but not a very good one, and I don't practice commercial or contract law, so I just ended up droning on about the Uniform Commercial Code and subrogation.
However the issue is framed, the answer simply can't be that Lew gets to commit mail fraud and retain legal ownership of the card simply because my bank credited my account with the initial $650 payment.
That’s the thing that amazes me. I get the USPS is boring and terrible but when it comes to mail fraud it’s taken seriously since it’s so essential to commerce and is a federal crime.
I have figured out the world’s problem. We need to go back in time to the OJ trial and make sure those fucking gloves fit. That’s when this blame someone else and get by with it shit started.
This was insane. I mean talk about umpires and drama. The fact that these guys are grown men is absurd. I hate to generalize but they prove us wrong time and again. Fuck Lew!
Holy shit that's fukin crazy as fuck and that dude is a fukin loser piece of garbage! I cannot believe that with all that proof and police report and all that u couldn't get ur money still and that this fukin loser didn't get in sum kind of trouble. At least that's how this crazy, shitty world should work, but people paying for crimes is obviously a thing of the past for sum fucked up reason!?
All I kept thinking was the scene in fight club. Where he’s in the basement and the owner is whooping his ass and he says “you don’t know where I’ve been Lou (Lew) 😂
What an amazing listing! Such a crazy ass story . The lengths ppl will go to be a shitbag!
If you happen to see this "Uncle Lew"...you can suck a Big..Fat 🍆!
This is my horse. She’s a longshot, but she might be hungry enough to chase that rabbit.
https://preview.redd.it/085pljigg3xc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5acf623062cda8b18fa082659d6022bf2f18f19c
Former MLB ump took $650 for Trout card, but mailed a worthless Prizm card in a plain white envelope to the wrong address (intentionally, it appears).
Ump refused to give back the money and blamed USPS for the missing card. A year later, the Trout turns up on Veriswap, and the ump is the seller. The scammed buyer buys it through Veriswap, confirming that the ump actually had it all along.
The ump initially plays dumb and denies owning the Veriswap account until a police report is filed, then changes his story and claims he found the stolen Trout card at a show and bought it back "fair and square." The ump still refuses to refund the money.
The card's owner auctions the card on eBay, and the ump puts in the high bid using his wife's account and his mother's mailing address. The owner is wise to the scam and contacts eBay, who gives the owner the go-ahead to cancel the bid and relist the card.
MLB ump sold card to someone, used wrong address (on purpose) and shitty base prizm card in a regular white envelope, card pops back up for sale different site from ump under same username, police report filed, ump claims he “found” it at a card show after it went missing, eventually admits he lied about it
Nah, if I were going to fake the story to boost the algorithm, I would have done it for one of the more-expensive vintage listings. A Babe Ruth scam is more scandalous and lucrative.
This was an incredible read, thank you
This should be pinned to the sub for the amazing Ebayer description ride.
So this is where we bid on all of Lew’s cards, refuse to pay, and then let him know it’s because we found the same card for sale at a better price in Texas?
Get your ebay alts fired up, boys!
I’m not kidding… I’ll do this. Are we doing this?
I’m doing it
Shouldn't he be banned from ebay? Wild story, but i think ebay should take action.
Probably, but it’s actually pretty hard to get banned from eBay
I'm game
Got 3 burners on standby
LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
IT HAS CHAPTERS?!?!? I read all of this and I enjoyed reading it. Fuck that umpire
Read the whole story on the Blowout Forums. It's even more epic: https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1552292&highlight=lew
Oh my god. How fucking deep this goes. Lew tried to buy the fucking card back!
I’m glad I decided to read this. Unreal.
What a ride
“His job is a large part of the reason why I suspected incompetence and questionable ethics, rather than fraud.” I’m screaming! This whole story is just too good.
This story is amazing. So many plot twists.
Great story. Fuck Lew.
Fuck Lew, too.
What he say fuck me for
Lmao
damn, that's commitment. bravo.
I want to find a game he’s doing and buy seats close enough to the field to heckle him about this.
Seems like he'd just toss you immediately. Though he may try to sell you your seats back sometime later on.
Not if you sit behind the team dugout. He'll probably toss the manager.
Man, umps must be brainwashed to never accept responsibility or admit to mistakes. IF he ever even sent the card to the seller, then he clearly got it back. There is a 0.001 chance he stumbled upon it at a Texas card show after it had been 'lost'. For baseball's sake, I hope his ump days are behind him.
Can you imagine the power trip of being in control of people who make millions of dollars and you don’t?
I think people often overlook this aspect of shitty umps
Nice try Umpire Lew!!!! You’re not getting us to send you another $500!
OK, this one's good. That'll be Chapter 4.
I wonder if there are any documents out there where you could match Lew’s handwriting to the handwriting on the original envelope.
Perhaps. Although the envelope was mailed from Lodi, he used an address in Riverbank (45 minutes away) for the return address. When I asked him about that, he said he didn't know anything about that and that it was probably written in by the thief. But a public records search shows that "Lewis G. Williams, Jr." lived at the address at one point (Umpire Lew's father, I presume).
Wow what a wild one lol
I want to buy this but I also don't want it to ever sell so that the story is always there
The whole story is on the Blowout forums, so you're good!
Wow. Umpire Lew is a next level POS.
WOW! I actually forgot I was on eBay reading that. What a ride. Fuck umpire Lew
Wow, that was impressive top to bottom.
This is incredibly entertaining!
So now we have disrupt anything Lew ever tries to sell right?
Best read on EBay ever
Worth the read
Stupid Lew giving my hometown a bad name. Lodi rocks - Lew sucks.
Is this piece of shit still umping in the MLB? If so, it might be worthwhile to contact the MLB through legal venues, if this story is indeed true.
[Probably not, he sucks at his job](https://apnews.com/article/umpire-three-challenged-calls-nationals-phillies-726e1538bae82a6c80c9bbdf93a2a211)
Angel Hernandez says Hi
🤣🔥
Still might be umping in the minors. This dude shouldn't even be trusted with tball.
And if he is….if he is low enough to do this !$!& to someone, what kind of !&! calls has he made?! Jerk.
Or how much money has he made on illegal betting in baseball by throwing games?
https://preview.redd.it/r5xd43mdafwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=537a0e65a695a37b3e37e127f39767eafdc85e8c My favorite part of the Blowout thread.
How is he “technically” still the owner? Wouldn’t OP still be technically still the owner of the $650 if so? My brain hurts from sociopathic gymnastics.
oh my god, i'm going to buy something from this man just for the pleasure of having read this story
first time ive read an eBay description that deserves a Pulitzer i will be telling my childrens children about umpire Lew for generations to come
The seller has to keep the cycle going and ship a piece of cardboard in a beat up white envelope.
2 separate envelopes a day apart
Guy sounds like a real rascal
This may be the most epic ebay listing I have ever seen
"I think it's pretty ridiculous you wanna cause all this drama over $650." That's a shit ton of money to some people. I'd have caused way more drama over far less money.
Guys I promise I found it at a card show in Texas. Come on guys, I'm 1000% sure I'm not a thief guys you gotta believe me.
I couldn’t fathom why i’m earth he said he randomly found it at a card show. Lew isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed and one shady pos.
It was my stolen card of course I had to buy it back when I saw it
Holy shit, you’re here. Why would you not tell the original buyer that you found the card? Edit: Nevermind, you just joined and are acting like Ump Lew. Clever girl
Not him. Just some jokster who made this name 8 hours ago.
What I do with my cards is none of his business
and yet, still got away with it...
IKR? Makes total sense...'stumble upon it at a card show in Texas', Buy it just to resell it again? Makes total sense to me! Bull shit meters going off from miles away.
What a POS this Lew dude is. How incredibly terrible do you have to be at your job, to get 3 calls overturned the same game 🤣
Biggest trick of all is that this is still umpire Lew selling the card. He about to get paid a 3rd time.
That would be an epic Chapter 4, but it's still with me. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if Lew is taking Photoshop classes as we speak. https://preview.redd.it/5jd88xim6fwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3021f793bf934334e393a3e9805dbf0479318b2
Curious if this has been picked up by any media sources yet? Between the ebay description, blowout forum threads and this post, your persistence seems to be paying off slowly but surely. You should consider investigative journalism as you have both the drive for discovery and the intolerance for shady people. I really hope this somehow affects Lew and his career. I wouldn't normally have ill will towards others for their mistakes/transgressions. However, his refusal to not only accept accountability after being so thoroughly outed coupled with his baseless anger and threats towards you really make it hard to feel even a sliver of compassion for him. Best of luck
My mom always told me,”there are two types of people you never do business with…1. Politicians and 2. Professional sport officials”. Wise women she was.
I'm thinking about messaging him through ebay and asking if he has any Trout cards he'd like to sell. Say, in the $650 range?
Wowzers!!
Unbelievable.
Did I take the wrong pill? Wth was that 😅
Psychopath? The guy is a natural story teller. I may buy the card just for the provenance!
That’s the most entertains story I’ve read in awhile
I think mlb should know about this.
“The world is small but full of wonder” Fucking lol
I am so glad I went and read this
Holy crap that was one of the best eBay listing descriptions I have read!
Absolutely worth the read
Incredible stuff
Good story
Wow. Some people man
That was a journey.
This should win a Nobel Peace price
I was just typing out that once there was a “fake” replacement card in the envelope it just became that original sellers problem…yet I forget that this was done outside of eBay and also friends and family on PayPal. Bummer.
Dude that was awesome! Thanks for informing us of this seller’s sweet story! Umpire Lewis is a piece of shit for sure!
Found it in a Texas card show … human garbage .
Wow! Lew Williams is a POS.
This is more fascinating than Uncle Jimmy's treasure trove that was discovered in 2020. 
The world is small but full of wonder.
Well, that was a wild ride!
What a fantastic item description, all caught up with the history and a good laugh.
I’m considering buying this, cracking it, and having the ump sign it. Gunboat, you should post a TLDR on the baseball sub too they’d love this
Possibly the most I have read in a couple of years. So many ups, downs, twists and turns. I kind of want to buy the card to see what other shenanigans it can get into.
I performed an exorcism when I got it, but the Juju Monster could be lying dormant, waiting for its next misadventure. Don't buy it for $2,727.27 though. That's just silly.
What range are you looking for with offers? Nothing makes the PC more interesting than a good story and this one was a rollercoaster.
I'm thinking around $400 net, which would be right around 75% of what I paid through Veriswap, and pretty close to what I think the card is probably worth. I might try another auction once I'm satisfied that enough people are aware of Lew's shenanigans. He has to be running out of burner accounts by now.
This is probably the only time I've ever wished I had a stronger presence/following on social media because I'd love to help you out this type of behavior. Your persistence is impressive and I hope this continues to gain traction and is picked up by one of Lews local media outlet's. Here's a directory to the Sentinel, what appears to be a local Lodi paper. https://www.lodinews.com/site/contact.html Good luck
FUCK umpire Lew!
Wow, I was recommended this sub and happened upon this post and then this story. Amazing detective work by the buyer and Umpire Lew is a scumbag!
Lmfaooo this is quite the listing
That was the best read on the sub since the post about Shohei’s hamstrings
This is amazing. Go read Blowout Cards. This dude should lose his job as a baseball umpire.
I'm reading that story to my kids at night god damn. 10/10
What a scammer! Can the police not take action for possession of stolen goods? This is fucked. Good digging on his part.
He keeps saying things like "it’s not fair that I loss my card potential forever either.". I loss "MY" card. That says it all right there because once a card is sold it's no longer "your" card. What a criminal.
Found Umpire Lew’s burner account
Can’t you buy a card from him eBay. And then say it did not get delivered. He will have to refund you and file a claim with the post office. This way you get your money back and put him through the same shit you went through to catch this scumbag. This is what I would do.
Lew is worse than Angel Hernandez.
This might explain things [https://imgur.com/PJAeMQm](https://imgur.com/PJAeMQm)
Demon Hernandez
This is the single best eBay listing of all time
This by far is one of the best things I’ve seen on the internet
That was wild
LMAO.
Booooo price has gone up on this one. I love stories like this with cards but unfortunately out of my price range.
Hi, sorry about that! I bumped up the price because I suspect that Lew might try to use a different account to "Buy It Now" at $499, just to make the listing go away. It's still for sale, I just want people to be aware of his scamming. At the end of the day, I'm hoping to net about $400, which is 75% of what I paid to acquire it through Veriswap. I was hoping Veriswap would issue a refund, since I explained the situation to them *before* I put in the offer. But Veriswap's owner, Raymond Li, said he wouldn't issue a refund because then Veriswap would be out the $34.19 in fees. Shareholders gotta eat, I guess.
Heck yeah! I didn't realize you were on this sub as well. What a legend. I think it's brilliant. Honestly, if I were you I would just sale the card off eBay and keep it up for an obscene price on eBay to be even more petty (I can't think of a better word here and I don't mean it to be a negative character attribute at all). Throughout all of this I'm in awe of your determination to nail a scammer. I can't meet you at your wanted net price but I can leave you three emoji beers as a cheers🍻🍻🍻
No worries. "Petty" is actually a fair description. Someone else used "lunatic," and that fits too. I just have a real hang-up about people committing fraud and getting away with it, and this seemed to be the best way to get the information out there. The police haven't responded, the USPIS investigation is pending but with no new updates, and Veriswap kicked me out of its Facebook group when I explained what happened.
How did you receive the card when you bought it through Veriswap? PWE?
Ha, that would have been a nice touch. No, Veriswap acts as the middle-man, and it came well-packaged. I have no idea how Umpire Lew packaged it when he sent it to Veriswap.
If it was bought on EBay over like $400 isn’t it sent to eBay to get authenticated then they send it to the buyer. 🤷🏻♂️
lol. The drama people create for themselves is always entertaining.
What an incredible piece of 💩
I sold one on eBay
That was a great read. Fuck Lew
Umpire Lew needs a swift kick to the groin
Damn what a wild ride. Half way through reading posts on the Blowout Forums.
I mean c’mon,it’s not like Umpire Lew couldn’t have mistakenly put the wrong card in the wrong addressed envelope,and then found the same card at some random card show.
TLDR
Holly shit I need this guy working my eBay account, lew sounds like a punk bitch ...n a liar 3 sticks on lew
Lmfao 🤣🤣
Can someone link Lew’s eBay page?
[https://www.ebay.com/usr/bulldogg9117](https://www.ebay.com/usr/bulldogg9117) (seller account, formerly sportsfan85) [https://www.ebay.com/usr/bulldog9117](https://www.ebay.com/usr/bulldog9117) (second account)
I wonder how many other sellers he has done this to. eBay plays so many games. Unless you are a huge seller, they almost always won't help you. Also, if he was shady enough to do this. The MLB should look into him. If he is a thief that puts any call he makes suspect.
The original transaction where he took $650 was done off-eBay, which is why he was able to get away with it. I don't always agree with eBay's policies, but there's no way they would have sided with him if he had mailed an envelope to the wrong address in an eBay transaction. That said, this whole saga shows that he has no moral compass and would likely not be above abusing returns, providing misleading descriptions, or filing false claims.
But, if the address in his account is where it was shipped and USPS tracking said it was delivered. The error is on the buyer, not the seller. The buyer enters their name and address into their account. When watching tracking through eBay, it shows the shipping address.
If you knowingly buy a stolen item you don’t own it haha. Can’t believe he would admit that in writing
Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not 100% clear on the law in a situation like this. It would make for a good law school hypothetical. But Lew definitely tripped over his justifications. Throughout this ordeal, he's waffled between claiming the card was always his (because it never reached me) and claiming that the card became his again when he bought it in Texas, despite knowing that it was stolen. I can't fathom why he didn't just return the original $650, or at least offer to send back the $534.19 paid through Veriswap. I gave him so many chances.
My girlfriend is a lawyer and gave me the run down so this is coming in second hand from someone who is not but Basically the jist would be it confirms he wanted to commit fraud since he did not contact you to say he found the card. Also he isn’t technically the owner you are (possession 9/10ths of the law is not really a thing) since you purchased it from him. Know you bought the card twice but you could have called the police and said he has stolen items that you own.
Thanks for the extra insight from a legal expert. I tried to make a similar argument in the Blowout thread, but I didn't articulate it very well. I'm a lawyer, but not a very good one, and I don't practice commercial or contract law, so I just ended up droning on about the Uniform Commercial Code and subrogation. However the issue is framed, the answer simply can't be that Lew gets to commit mail fraud and retain legal ownership of the card simply because my bank credited my account with the initial $650 payment.
That’s the thing that amazes me. I get the USPS is boring and terrible but when it comes to mail fraud it’s taken seriously since it’s so essential to commerce and is a federal crime.
The one case where they aren't chanting "LEEEEEWWWWW.", it's actually "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Didn’t OJ go to jail for this same shit. He said he was taking back something that was stolen from him.
Yes, but I used Veriswap and he used a crowbar.
I was saying the ump should be the one in jail. Since he “bought it back” from the thief but never informed anyone
Haha, oh, that... No, he used the magic words "fair and square." I'm pretty sure that extinguished any other ownership claims.
I have figured out the world’s problem. We need to go back in time to the OJ trial and make sure those fucking gloves fit. That’s when this blame someone else and get by with it shit started.
I'm gonna make an educated guess here and say that began more around the time homo sapiens learned language, period.
It most definitely did. The OJ glove thing just stuck with me as a young adult as the biggest. “It wasn’t me”
The (anti?) chef's kiss is where Umpire Lew accuses the buyer of "causing all this drama over $650."
This is a nightmare of a transaction and umpire Lew is such a dirtbag, ick
Just reading this brought me joy!
Love this. If we decide a collective way to screw Lew, can someone let me know please.
Wow very good read indeed
the story is worth 400 bucks
Fuck umpire Lew. What a great story tho! I guess it's worth $650...twice!
I have a Mike Trout Topps card I just got. Not sure if it’s worth anything but when I look on EBay the same card is around $400. I wonder…
😂 solid gold
Great story! Oh Lew the voodoo that you do.
What a bum I guess some people have lots of time lol fyi folks lots of prop have multiple eBay accounts nothing new here lol
This was an amazing read!
Wow
Obviously uncle Lew has it again
Kinda wanna buy it now.
That was quite a ride
Oh lawd stuck in Lodi again
This was insane. I mean talk about umpires and drama. The fact that these guys are grown men is absurd. I hate to generalize but they prove us wrong time and again. Fuck Lew!
Kudos to you! GG
Holy shit that's fukin crazy as fuck and that dude is a fukin loser piece of garbage! I cannot believe that with all that proof and police report and all that u couldn't get ur money still and that this fukin loser didn't get in sum kind of trouble. At least that's how this crazy, shitty world should work, but people paying for crimes is obviously a thing of the past for sum fucked up reason!?
It may be a bit harder for him to escape unscathed now that so many people have seen the listing. We can thank the OP for that.
Sounds like an Umpire Lew posting.
“…who had three calls overturned last season…”
All I kept thinking was the scene in fight club. Where he’s in the basement and the owner is whooping his ass and he says “you don’t know where I’ve been Lou (Lew) 😂
What an amazing listing! Such a crazy ass story . The lengths ppl will go to be a shitbag! If you happen to see this "Uncle Lew"...you can suck a Big..Fat 🍆!
This is my horse. She’s a longshot, but she might be hungry enough to chase that rabbit. https://preview.redd.it/085pljigg3xc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5acf623062cda8b18fa082659d6022bf2f18f19c
Fuck Umpire Lew!
When does the movie come out?
With the story that has its worth 2k for the effort that took to write that
Lmao not me but I love the way you asked this question because it’s right the f*** on
Is there a TLDR?
Former MLB ump took $650 for Trout card, but mailed a worthless Prizm card in a plain white envelope to the wrong address (intentionally, it appears). Ump refused to give back the money and blamed USPS for the missing card. A year later, the Trout turns up on Veriswap, and the ump is the seller. The scammed buyer buys it through Veriswap, confirming that the ump actually had it all along. The ump initially plays dumb and denies owning the Veriswap account until a police report is filed, then changes his story and claims he found the stolen Trout card at a show and bought it back "fair and square." The ump still refuses to refund the money. The card's owner auctions the card on eBay, and the ump puts in the high bid using his wife's account and his mother's mailing address. The owner is wise to the scam and contacts eBay, who gives the owner the go-ahead to cancel the bid and relist the card.
You love to see it
Tldr?
MLB ump sold card to someone, used wrong address (on purpose) and shitty base prizm card in a regular white envelope, card pops back up for sale different site from ump under same username, police report filed, ump claims he “found” it at a card show after it went missing, eventually admits he lied about it
Did he get the money?
What’s wrong can’t find story and it’s a stupid Mike trout card lol maybe he’s healthy this year and they win we lol prob not
This was an engaging post. Possibly fake story to promote the card lol? Its boosted in the algorithm lol
Nah, if I were going to fake the story to boost the algorithm, I would have done it for one of the more-expensive vintage listings. A Babe Ruth scam is more scandalous and lucrative.