MICHAEL JORDAN SPANISH CONVERSE CARD
chas707
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I'm back again after finding out my Mantle was a fake. Disappointing but life goes on.
I have recently thought of buying the attached card of Jordan so I did some research. No problems except that I saw one for sale that said "reprint". It looked real. So, does anyone know how to tell a reprint of this card? I only saw one but then there are not a lot of these out there.
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Your bullsh*t meter sucks!
With your inexperience, I recommend only purchasing graded cards. I understand that you are wanting to find a card to make a quick flip, but please remember that grading has been around for over two decades. So, most legitimate cards have already been discovered and graded. If they aren't yet graded, there's a good reason why not.
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The problem is that he wants it to be real.
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ok, I know better now to not ask questions from all these experts. omgosh And all I asked is if there are reprints and how do you tell. I didn't come to get scolded. Not a very friendly forum imo.
tks but I am willing to take the risks that I know and being fake or a reprint is one. I am just trying to do my research. I have not bought anything
The answer is to compare your dream to an already graded one, which is what I did in under a minute, as i had never even heard of the card you asked about before!
Also, looks like the real one is blue ink on the back and the back picture is smaller than the width of the card!
Buying a card that is clearly described as a reprint in the hopes that it is real is not a viable investment strategy. Maybe Dale Ball will sell you his genuine Shotwell Babe Ruth for $20,000,000.
Like Rufuss said, compare your card to one already graded. One thing that stands out with this example is that the both pictures on your card are very dark, less clear, and less focused. That is a tell-tale sign of a fake.
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They really chose an ugly photo for the action shot.
Sometimes, a quick way to dismiss it is to look how 'muddy' the photo is.
Here on the reprint notice how Jordan's eye sockets are basically gone and blend in with the other darks in the background. They are muddied and don't show any clarity.
Compare it to the original one and one can see he does have eye sockets, albeit still kind of dark, but the clarity is far superior than it is to the reprint version.
Keep searching. You might still find a diamond in the rough. If searching in person keep a couple of old commons with you because in hand it is a lot easier to tell the difference right away. You may not be able to pin point what is wrong with the reprint, but your feel and senses can usually tell when directly comparing to an original.
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I've always thought that David Robinson's first-card that is in this set is undervalued given the low total pop.