I've owned this card for 30 years ...

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Posted By: Paul

... and I just read the back for the first time and discovered it's worth $10,000.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1933-Napoleon-LaJoie-Card-Says-10-000-00-Value-NR_W0QQitemZ260071698325QQihZ016QQcategoryZ86847QQ rdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Let's make this into a contest. What listings have you seen that actually reflected greater stupidity by the seller than this one?

I happen to like this one because it shows stupidity on so many levels. If you believe his story, then this guy never read the back of his own card in 30 years. And if you believe his story, then he is such a fool that he actually thinks the value of a card can be determined by reading its back. And if you don't believe his story, then he actually believes he can fool someone with this story.

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Posted By: dennis

i saw this one also! what amazes me that such an idiot can have a computer let alone figure out how to work it.

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Posted By: Kenneth A. Cohen

What's your point? It says in black and white that it's worth 10 large.

Maybe he's trying to top the Cosmo Kramer Cuban ash Bambino card for assinine listing of the year. Just think, it's only January 1.

:-@

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Posted By: Lee

Seller claims he may have the licky 10000........whatever this means.....

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Paul

This would have been a great addition to the:

"I hate to out an auction thread..."

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Posted By: robertadamejr

Licky 10000 sounds kinda kinky . THAT I would bid on .

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

So does this mean the T206 Wagner I have that says it's worth $25,000 on the back is a fake??????


Wait for it..........

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Posted By: barrysloate

Paul- here is one of my favorite stupid stories: many years ago a new customer called and asked if I could find him a Kalamazoo Bat. I gave him a price range, maybe it was around a $1000 at the time, and he said he was interested. I contacted someone who had one, got him to agree to sell it, had a photocopy made, and mailed it to the customer. Hadn't heard back from him for a week, so I called him. He sheepishly admitted he didn't respond because he was actually looking for a vintage 19th century bat, and thought a Kalamazoo Bat sounded like one he would like to own. It was funny that he agreed to a price when he hadn't even a clue what he was making an offer for. He didn't even have the right genre!

I've also had dozens of calls from people over the years who have Wagners, Planks, Lajoie's, etc. that have the value of the card printed on the back, and ask me how much I think their cards are worth. I always say doesn't it strike you odd that a baseball card would be issued with its own value printed on it? Not to mention at time of issue all baseball cards are worth zero.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Barry,

It could have been worse, the buyer could have been looking for a Yum Yum...

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Posted By: robertadamejr

Or one of those winged Kalamazoo bats .

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Posted By: David Smith

Judge Dred,

Wouldn't a licky 10,000 go with a Yum Yum??


On a serious note, the seller ends with "Have a blessed new year". Again, a fake card and a reference to religion, what is the deal with that?


David

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Posted By: dennis

On a serious note, the seller ends with "Have a blessed new year". Again, a fake card and a reference to religion, what is the deal with that?

the seller thinks this makes him look like an honest and caring individual when we all know he's a scumbag out to rip people off.

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Posted By: barrysloate

A Yum Yum sounds like a dog treat. I remember feeding my cocker spaniel "dog yums" when I was a kid.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I tend to doubt people who maintain complete ignorance about a well known card, yet store
the card in a top loader-- a top loader being something that only someone experienced
with cards knows about, much less uses. Duly note that the top loader is not
even close to 30 years old.

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Posted By: Paul

Barry, it really is amazing that people can actually believe cards come with their values printed right on them. Somehow, I don't that that this particular seller is suffering from that form of stupidity.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Paul- I can't begin to tell you how many calls I've gotten over the years from people who have Wagners and Planks and think they have the real thing. I know without asking a single question that these cards are no good, but I will always ask them to read the back. Then I will hear: "this card is worth $8500..." and I tell them, how could a real card know at the time of issue what it is going to be worth in 90 years? Then they always say they don't know anything about old baseball cards. You would think it would never happen once but it has happened 50 times, so when I see these listings they don't surprise me in the least.

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Posted By: David Smith

As a public service, it would be nice if someone would buy as many of these cards as possible and destroy them.

When I had money to spend frivolously, I used to go to garage sales looking for baseball items. Most times I did not find any. However, I did find a lot of Harlequin Romance paperbacks. If they were inexpensive enough, I would buy them and then take them home and shred them with my paper shredder.

The sellers would then have money and extra space and I would feel better because I rid the world of some trash. I would take the shredded paper and drop it off at a recycling center so it could (hopefully) be re-used for something better.

David

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Posted By: MikeU

The guy does have 100% positive feedback, so bid with confidence.

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Posted By: Paul

You would think this would be the one reprint that would fool no one. Simply amazing. I guess if I started distributing photocopies of T206 Wagners and scrawled the word "fake" across the front, I'd find them on ebay the next day being sold by people who were convinced they were real.

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Posted By: Darren

No need for price guides...cards come out of the pack stating what they're worth.

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Posted By: Misunderestimated

An Old Judge "$10,000 Kelly" card could be worth that much (or even more) depending on the condition and whether it was a cabinet...
Ten Million is also valuable, and highly sought after, but not to the tune of $10,000,000.00.

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Posted By: Cobby33

Is it possible that this guy is just naive? Or am I being naive?

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Posted By: howard

When I was an apartment building handyman one of my co-workers came to work with a big brown book w/a vinyl cover. He was very excited because he said it was worth a lot of money and that he had found it on the street along with the rest of the set (a dozen books or so). How did he know it was worth so much? Each book had "collectors item" embossed on the front.

Another time he came in with a common Mercury dime and a tiny "gold" coin with a date of 1849. Both were in cardboard collectors cases with very high price tags. He bought them off a guy on the street for twenty bucks.

That last time I saw him he said that he was given a painting by an old lady who lived at the building he now works at. He took it to Christie's or Sotheby's and it was told it was by some famous Korean master and eventually sold for half a million. Other people have told me this is true so maybe it is.

Moral of the story: No matter how ridiculous your schemes sound, if you keep at it you might get lucky with the real thing or find a bigger fool than you are.

Howard