I saw a fascinating story on the television about this guy named Wayne Bray, who partnered with Greg Marino to forge and sell millions of dollars worth of sports memorabilia, all engraved with fake signatures. He worked as an “Authenticator and Wholesaler” in San Marcos, California, selling the forgeries to hundreds of dealers.
The show is called Masterminds: Foul Ball. Most of it is an actor playing Bray, but he appears several times talking about what he did.
They said at his peak, he was passing off ten million dollars worth of counterfeits per month. By 1999, the FBI was …
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This is the story of how I gamed the rebate, price-match, and coupon systems of common office and grocery stores to acquire over $25,000 in free merchandise over a period of three years. I haven’t found anyone who has done quite what I’ve done. A lot of it is unethical. I believe none of it is legally actionable, but it was exciting and I gained a lot of nice possessions. “Legal shoplifting,” if you will.
Nervous Early Days
When I started out in the rebate game, around June 2005, I thought claiming a legitimate rebate on a product was a good deal. …
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