I'm not sure I'd say "scam." Stupid, yes. Uneducated, yes. This is more than likely just someone who found some 27 year old cards and thinks that they're ancient.
the funny thing about this auction is these cards are worth closer to $200.00 than all the fake mantle,ruth,cobb & wagner garbage that dopes on ebay buy all the time!
To me that is not a scam, uninformed uneducated yes, but not a scam. Some people just assume that old cards are worth money. I have seen 1988 donruss cards of Bonds and Ryan in antique malls marked for 20 and 30 dollars each.
<< <i>yeh, this person is just clueless. Maybe if he threw in a, lets say, Larry Hisle I might think about a bid. >>
I've got about a dozen 1973 Hisles if you're interested.
You guys are being way to generous here. All it takes is a few minutes to check your market and see what you are selling is worth. Had he done so he would have saved the fees on the $200 insertion.
Here is an auction that shows a clueless person. The guy obviously consulted a Beckett's, but then he made several mistaken assumptions: 1. What he had matched the conditions necessary for the big $$$. 2. Ebay sale prices are in-line with Beckett (a fair assumption actually but one that turns out to be a bad one daily). 3. "1971 Topps Pete Rose is miscut, which I was told either does nothing to the value or increases it. "
This seller is obviously a novice, but the one who inspired the thread stinks of a true scammer.
Ebay is full of people thinking that all it takes is one idiot who doesn't know the value of something to overpay to buy it. If anything I think there's a garage sale mentality on Ebay - that people want a bargain and it's only the true collectors who know what something is worth who end up paying what the market value of a collectible truly is.
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But he has 100% Postive Feedback.... LOL He hasn't sold anything since 2001. LOL
Lee
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
My $0.02.
www.somnifacient.us
Owner of a small, but growing (slowly), 1977 Topps Baseball PSA 8+ Set (currently for sale on eBay, username somnifac)
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<< <i>yeh, this person is just clueless. Maybe if he threw in a, lets say, Larry Hisle I might think about a bid.
I've got about a dozen 1973 Hisles if you're interested.
You guys are being way to generous here. All it takes is a few minutes to check your market and see what you are selling is worth. Had he done so he would have saved the fees on the $200 insertion.
Here is an auction that shows a clueless person.
The guy obviously consulted a Beckett's, but then he made several mistaken assumptions:
1. What he had matched the conditions necessary for the big $$$.
2. Ebay sale prices are in-line with Beckett (a fair assumption actually but one that turns out to be a bad one daily).
3. "1971 Topps Pete Rose is miscut, which I was told either does nothing to the value or increases it. "
This seller is obviously a novice, but the one who inspired the thread stinks of a true scammer.
Ebay is full of people thinking that all it takes is one idiot who doesn't know the value of something to overpay to buy it. If anything I think there's a garage sale mentality on Ebay - that people want a bargain and it's only the true collectors who know what something is worth who end up paying what the market value of a collectible truly is.
Stingray