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eBay - Two Identical Jim Brown rookies?

ssollarsssollars Posts: 933 ✭✭✭✭
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These cards match in every way down to the print defects, what are the odds that one of them is bogus?

Card #1 - just sold

Card #2 - still available

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭
    I think the current seller is legit. Probably used an alternate buying ID.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    Welcome, nice first post!

    It's getting to be a common scam to buy an offgrade card, steal a scan of a nicer or graded card, use the scan, sell the nice card, and deliver the offgrade one. Hard to prove if you take the picture away after the auction is over.

    The seller shelane has been buying a lot of low-grade star cards lately, and the other seller has another auction with the same background. My guess is shelane doesn't own the card they showed in the auction. But that's just a guess, not an accusation. More damning evidence would be that the Brown rc is a relist after a no-sale.

    Good catch!
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  • HeritageAddictHeritageAddict Posts: 3,266
    I believe shelane is the one that there was a post about a couple of weeks ago, basically they were using scans from graded card auctions and then cropping them and using them in their listings. Here is the original thread
    Cut Auto Cards 4 sale

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  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭
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  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    Nice detective work. Check out Shelane's FB and other ratings details. Very shabby 'POWER SELLER' if you ask me. In fact how can they even maintain that status with their abysmal feedback record. Looks like they're shafting a lot of buyers in a short amount of time.
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    I tried rubbing the back of the card with a coin but it scratched my monitor
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    the real owner of that card reported the stolen scan last nite to ebay, I tried to alert the winning bidder on the scam auction but for my protection ebay wouldn't allow it.
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  • ssollarsssollars Posts: 933 ✭✭✭✭
    If I had not have been watching both at the same time, I may have bid on it. It's just by chance I noticed it. I was trying to see which one was the "better" of the two. :-) I've been pretty lucky with eBay so far. Only a couple issues (both in the last two months) but nothing on the scale of a Brown rookie.

    I thought about contacting the buyer too, but decided against it.
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