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  • gotsparks09gotsparks09 Posts: 957
    "THIS CARD IS VERY VERY OLD (EVEN SMELLS LIKE AN OLD BASEMENT)"

    "I HAVE HAD THE CARD APPRAISED BY MULTIPLE LOCAL GURU'S WHO HAVE MUCH EXPERIENCE WITH Y-206'S"

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    guru-did you appraise this cardimage
    i really dig the part about CARBON DATING ,now thats some funny stuff, he dint dig up a t rex jawboneimage
    hope he dont expect to get paid for it,hes in for a Major dissapointment,might even be a Colonel disapontment ,just what i always wanted, a 1,700$ fake worth 5 bucks or less

    Y-206s- didnt that have something to do with the y2k fiasco when everybody thight the sky was gonna fallimageimageimage
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Carbon Dating


    In 1959, I went to a demonstration on the subject.

    The guy had a piece of petrified wood about the size
    of a watermellon. He said the tests confirmed it was
    "millions of years old."

    As part of the demo, the guy used a diamond saw
    to cut about 1/3 of the piece off. It cut pretty easy
    and lots of pebble-size chunks chipped off as the
    blade was going through.

    Once it seperated, there was a three-inch iron
    nail laying flat on the bigger cut piece. Best case,
    the nail was a few hundred years old.

    I am sure they do better carbon dating now days.

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    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    That seller is a dingbat.

    I hope those are not real bids.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • rise2itrise2it Posts: 160

    ...and ONLY 10% of his feedbacks are negative.

    Whew...for a second there I was worried there might be some trust issues with this auction...

    Collecting my sports heroes, Roger Staubach and Kirby Puckett.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    i expect they are driving the price up for him and going to watch him crash and burn with other ids ,look at the questios and answers,they are hilariousimage
  • gotsparks09gotsparks09 Posts: 957
    I really don't think it's appropriate to "out" auctions like this. I had my snipe set early...now I probably won't win it since you brought it to everyone's attention.

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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    tough to believe people bidding on that.

    what ever happened to consumer research & product awareness?

    i am going to drop a deuce on a mantle k-mart mvp card & sell it for big bucks!

    j
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    RIP GURU
  • easydoesiteasydoesit Posts: 547
    In all honesty that looks like a similar copy to some fakes I bought back when yahoo had auctions. I bought them thinking they were reprints and the card stock looks very similiar. My seller was out of NC.
    "I put my pants on just like you... One leg at a time. The differences is when I put them on, I make gold records."
  • kidzfundkidzfund Posts: 565 ✭✭✭
    The seller didn't sell anything in 2007 either.

    P.T. Barnum was right. image

    Joe
  • tnsprotnspro Posts: 787 ✭✭✭
    Not sure what everyone is crying about with all the emails to him.

    He seems pretty upfront with his details. It is clearly stated it is a forgery and yet some idiot tells him he can get sued? Do people read?

    What is the problem?

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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    problem is people are bidding on this flaming turd.

    seller is not problem, well kind of the problem, but consumers are stupid.

    "prolly grade 4 IF someone would grade it..."

    dynamic

    j
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    RIP GURU
  • speederspeeder Posts: 819 ✭
    Man, i wonder how much my 2 "old" reprints of Wagner & Cobb would go for !!

    Geez, if you tell people the item your selling is a reprint and they fight to give you $1800,,,,, are you in the wrong for taking it,,, i don`t think so.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't see what the problem is either. The seller is clearly saying its not genuine, its a fake or reprint. Congrats to him for being honest, the bidders are the idiots.
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    Wow, that's is a horrible horrible card. Who would bid on that?! That's really crazy that someone would even put that up to auction. I guess there's all types of scammers out there these days.
  • speederspeeder Posts: 819 ✭
    Guru, some of his story is probably untrue, i`ll give you that.

    But the guy states more than once that the card is a reprint. And as a buyer that should be all you pay attention too, and bid accordingly or not bid at all.

    If he`s being honest about the validity of the card,, how is it a scam ?

    Lee
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    Yeah, I went back and read everything. I just looked at the card the first time. I see now where he's saying things. Not necessarily a scam, but my gut says somethings wrong with this auction.
  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
    Somewhere, PT. Barnum is smiling.....
  • speederspeeder Posts: 819 ✭
    Honestly, i wouldnt care what he were selling.

    With a feedback of 91.3,,,,, that would have ended it for me !!

    Lee
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    The problem here as i see it is the category the seller has placed this card in. It is not a card from that era and thus should not be allowed to be listed there. Ebay could simply create a category for these reprints and or cancel the ones that say 'reprint' 'forgery' (which this card is not) counterfiet etc.

    The problem is ebay in this case and not the seller.

    I like how he claims in one of his answers that he has paid multiples of the current bid for it.

    I have no idea what the current bid was at the time of his reply.


    Steve

    Good for you.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    It just completely baffles me why people bid so high on some stuff .

    Seems to me if you sit here long enough and come up with something really original , you can put it on E-bay and probably become rich over night ?

    The Vick card chewed up by a dog ,

    Some cheese sandwich with the mother Mary's face in it ?

    What else has there been ??

    It is mind blowing because we can have some really rare and beautiful stuff and have to worry about taking a bath in losses and someone can come on with complete crap and hit a grand slam , it just defies all logic .

    Are these people hoping the guy is wrong and the card is legit or is there some kind of value to a forged or reprinted card like this that we just don't know about ?
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    "Ebay could simply create a category for these reprints and or cancel the ones that say 'reprint' 'forgery' (which this card is not) counterfiet etc."

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    Under the current EBAY scheme, ALL "fakes" must be marked
    "copy/counterfeit/or replica." Your scan must SHOW that marking.

    Fakes not so marked will be removed upon complaint. A written disclaimer,
    NO MATTER how prominent, does not meet the requirement.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The problem here as i see it is the category the seller has placed this card in. It is not a card from that era and thus should not be allowed to be listed there. Ebay could simply create a category for these reprints and or cancel the ones that say 'reprint' 'forgery' (which this card is not) counterfiet etc.

    The problem is ebay in this case and not the seller.

    I like how he claims in one of his answers that he has paid multiples of the current bid for it.

    I have no idea what the current bid was at the time of his reply.


    Steve >>



    I agree. The problem is some bidders are to lazy or do not know how to read the descriptions. The title shoud be listed as reprint.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good entertainment.

    My intuition says it's being "shilled to the hill!"

    mike
    Mike
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    lol mine too.


    Steve
    Good for you.
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