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Mantle Rookie

JaktJakt Posts: 573 ✭
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Does this sound or looks legitimate?



Mantle Rookie
I'm building a 1968 and a 1970 Topps set. I have lots of 1970s and 1960s to offer in trade.

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    Too many red flags. Zero feedback seller (check), Dead spouse (check), found cards in attic/closet (check), no paypal (check), auction run for the smallest amount of time possible instead of the longest amount of time possible so more eyes can see it (check). If it were me, I would stay away, as you are asking for heartache if you proceed.
  • eyeboneeyebone Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭
    interesting, isn't it?

    eyebone
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  • JaktJakt Posts: 573 ✭
    I sent her an email asking if I could pick this up in person if I win. She agreed but would want a cashier's check for "tax purposes."
    I'm building a 1968 and a 1970 Topps set. I have lots of 1970s and 1960s to offer in trade.
  • MattyCMattyC Posts: 1,335 ✭✭
    Pass.

    Very slick attempt I'll say, right down to the imperfect grammar. But as stated above, this listing hits all the usual and classic notes of a scam.

    If seller can produce photos of her estate lawyer holding the card with today's paper, different story image
  • MattyCMattyC Posts: 1,335 ✭✭
    What a beautiful card though, huh?! Amazing centering!
  • PeteZariaPeteZaria Posts: 288
    ebay Member since: Jan-06-13

    First things she sells, a '52 Mantle. image
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭


    << <i>ebay Member since: Jan-06-13

    First things she sells, a '52 Mantle. image >>




    She obviously didn't get great advice about how to do this the best way.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    Already emailed about looking at cards in person, as I am headed to NJ tonight. Says "she is now located in Philly"
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    But the cards are with her lawyer in NY State.
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    If you lose your money, great God, don't lose your mind.
    If you lose your money, great God, don't lose your mind.
    And if you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine.
    I'm gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my lady whilst I sleep.
    I'm gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my lady whilst I sleep.
    'Cause women these days, they're so doggone crooked,
    That they might make a 'fore day creep.
    Well, you can't watch your wife and your outside women, too.
    You know you can't watch your wife and your outside womens, too.
    Cause when you're out with your women, your wife will be at home,
    Cooking your food, doing your dirt, buddy what you trying to do?
    You can't watch your wife and your outside womens, too.
    You know you can't watch your wife and your outside women, too.
    When you're out with your women, your wife will be at home,
    Doing your dirt, cooking your food, buddy what you trying to do?
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Best line: "Im not too comfortable with paypal on this type of transaction". I also like this: "he has over 1000 graded cards that he bought over his lifespan" with 'has' in the present tense. Where are all the other cards?
    Daniel
  • RynoandBoRynoandBo Posts: 393 ✭✭
    I have a medical background and the thing that screams bogus to me was the death by testicular cancer and husband of 35 years. While testicular cancer can be terminal when caught too late, it is typically found before the age of 30, it is not a cancer typically discovered late in life.
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  • SlabbedSlabbed Posts: 306
    He had 1000 cards but I will only put this one on. Ha,Ha,Ha.
  • DCanfieldDCanfield Posts: 548 ✭


    << <i>I sent her an email asking if I could pick this up in person if I win. She agreed but would want a cashier's check for "tax purposes." >>



    Any chance she'd take a cashier's check drawn on a Nigerian bank??
    Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'WOW What a Ride!' Mark Frost
  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭

    I wonder which one of us will win this card??image
    J.R.
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    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    Rookie? 1951?
    Its a Topps card....

    everyone knows the true Mantle rookie is the 1951 Exhibit card image
    issued months before the last series of 1951 Bowman, or the Wheaties Proof card

    image
  • GRGR Posts: 550 ✭✭
    love that classic cream reference (: nobody quite like Ginger
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  • CSCCSC Posts: 100 ✭


    << <i>Too many red flags. Zero feedback seller (check), Dead spouse (check), found cards in attic/closet (check), no paypal (check), auction run for the smallest amount of time possible instead of the longest amount of time possible so more eyes can see it (check). If it were me, I would stay away, as you are asking for heartache if you proceed. >>



    Also, she mentioned the costs left behind. Does a guy that drops this amount of coin on a Mantle card, along with a 1,000+ graded cards as mentioned, not have a job with decent medical insurance or make enough to buy personal coverage, but has an estate attorney?

  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    I guess the guy that croaked was a so called "well known hobby figure"??? hmmmm lol

    looks like the same exact card with same exact scan was sold less than 3 months ago, for a record $55K

    very common Topps card graded PSA-7 sells for $55K
  • 19541954 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭
    Some people are uninsurable. Regardless of how much money you have, insurance companies only want the top risk. Not saying that the lady is being honest here but the story behind having medical bills and a nice collection of cards does not make this a bogus story.

    The same scan does make it a bogus story.

    Looking for high grade rookie cards and unopened boxes/cases
  • MrKnowthanxMrKnowthanx Posts: 322 ✭✭
    I am just recently getting back into the Card Collecting game and thins might sound a bit naieve, but if she is willing to meet in person, with the lawyer then what is there to loose. Could u let eBay know of the issue and then if it turns out fake eBay wont pitch a fit? Hell if the positive is picking up a great looking 52 Mantle for a decent price and the negative being one bad ebay complaint... i'd say the positive out weighs the negative here. But let me know if I am missing something.
  • blee1blee1 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭
    It's been removed.
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  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭
    Message I just recieved from tem,

    Just Curious if you had any ending offers as I need to make a mortgage payment by Tuesday at 5pm. My email Address Being dizzledrop99@gmail.com I check that more often.

    Contact me thanks.
    Yesenia
    J.R.
    Needs'
    1972 Football-9's high#'s
    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8
  • ShootyBabittShootyBabitt Posts: 970 ✭
    dizzledrop99 sounds like a trustworthy name.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    FKW, with the 1951/53 Mantle exhibit you showed, how can you tell if it's issued in 51 or 53?
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