The Hobby Boards

This time, he gave Hoody's, a large consignment business in Oregon, a shortened version of his name: J Garc.

Max Barnes, general manager at Hoody's, was reading the stories on Garcia — the man who ran Cardporn, a self-proclaimed "hobby watchdog" Instagram site that reached 112,000 followers before being deleted last week amidst the scandal.

Barnes then started to realize his company had been the latest victim. He shared his story with the Action Network.

On July 6, Garcia bought a 2007 Upper Deck Black dual patch autograph featuring Michael Jordan and Julius Erving for $7,700. Four days later, Hoody's sold him a 1997-98 Metal Universe PMG Clyde Drexler in a PSA 4 for $5,655.

Garcia then showed Hoody's a video of him opening their package on tape, which apparently revealed that they forgot to send the cards.

In the video, Garcia shows a box that doesn’t appear to be opened. He cuts through the tamper resistant tape with an X-Acto knife and opens the package to show no cards inside.

"The envelope on top isn't how I put it in there and he opened the package from the bottom," Barnes said.

eBay authenticates cards worth more than $200, so the shipping lies with them as the middle man. Garcia’s loophole is that eBay doesn’t have the authentication program outside the U.S. and Canada, so he can blame the vendor instead of eBay.

When the "I didn't get the cards" trick didn't work, Garcia tried the "I got the wrong cards" excuse. When that didn't work, he said he had a bank issue and that he never purchased the cards in the first place.