Drama! REA sued?

Didn't expect to see this in the Daily News! Seems like it was timed to hit as the catalogues get prepped to ship?

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2011/04/04/2011-04-04_attorney_collector_corey_shanus_says_owner_of_new_jersey_auction_house_sold_him_.html

Interesting read.

It was written by O'Keefe. Would you expect to appear any other time than just before the REA auction is about to go live?

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

It's always the NY daily news posting vintage bb card related stuff...wonder why?!

Multi million dollar collector against Multi Million dollar auction house. Definately a heavy weight fight.

It's going to come down to being able to prove that those items are actually are fake. This means that an expert/s in the hobby has to step up and say Rob was wrong. I'm not sure there are too many people with solid reputations that are willing to take on Rob. It will prove interesting to say the least.

Random thought. If you read the article it mentions that many of these items were purchased from Mastro. Want to bet that REA is getting sued because there is no money to be gotten from Mastro.

Hi Full Count Forum! I posted this on Net54 on 4/5/11 and should have posted this here as well. Better late than never!

We have no fancy PR firm (and don’t need one) and I can’t discuss details of a lawsuit that is filed against me because it just isn’t done, but I can assure any and all that this has NO merit and at least I can post the link:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/mo...sold_him_.html


We only learned of this “suit” late last night. Our attorney Barry Kozyra provided this statement (too late to be included in the story but maybe it will be updated, have no idea):

"Robert Edward Auctions, LLC and Robert Lifson deny the allegations of the Complaint filed by Corey Shanus. The Complaint contains numerous misstatements of fact and inaccuracies as Mr. Shanus must know as well as false suppositions. The Complaint is frivolous as a matter of law and REA and Mr. Lifson will seek full redress through the courts for damages, attorney fees and costs from Mr. Shanus and anyone acting in concert with him or on his behalf."


Sincerely,

Robert Lifson

Robert Edward Auctions LLC


PS Jay, interesting observation!