What is up with this

Archive · #1 10-11-2002, 12:58 PM

Posted By: Bigb13

Check this out. Something wrong with this picture. Selling cards because he said he needs the money but has bid on almost 450 items since last Wed. Click here: eBay item 1866098082 (Ends Oct-10-02 20:49:07 PDT ) - 1909 t206 NAP LAJOIE batting LOOK!

Archive · #2 10-11-2002, 01:29 PM

Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

I don´t care what a seller says in an item description as long as the item is real and not fake...

Archive · #3 10-11-2002, 01:43 PM

Posted By: jeff s

I'd need the money, too!

Though perhaps many of those bids are shills for Rick or Roy...

Archive · #4 10-11-2002, 01:56 PM

Posted By: Dan Mathewson

...I just sent him this question over eBay. I'll let you know if I hear back.

Pardon me for asking this, but there is so much fraud going on over eBay now, especially with baseball cards, I'm very cautious. I check the item, and sometimes more importantly, i check what the seller says in his auction description. You say about this card "...i would keep it but i need the money..." Yet, eBay's system shows you as having current and recently bid on over 400 items in the last 30 days. Seems rather contradictory...wouldn't you agree? I just like to understand where people are coming from...statements like this shed doubt on the validity of an auction and make people think there is a reason for a seller's "desperation to sell a card because he needs the money" when, in fact, he's bidding and buying like crazy. It makes one suspect immediately for creating an untrue distraction. Just curious. Thanks. -dan

Archive · #5 10-11-2002, 01:59 PM

Posted By: Tom A

This caught my eye also because he has outbid me on several T206 auctions lately; was kindof surprised with the "needing money" statement for this auction (after seeing everything he had bid on), but I figured that with the amount of stuff he had won in the past couple of weeks, if he was an inherently bad ebayer, the negatives would start rolling in.

So that was how i rationalized placing a bid on the card (since i still need it for the set). Of course i got outbid, so its moot anyways.

Archive · #6 10-11-2002, 02:03 PM

Posted By: Bigb13

Notice he does still have a 0 feedback. Looks like he is running up the prices of quite a few items. Bigb13

Archive · #7 10-11-2002, 05:06 PM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

getting the money together to bid on Lipset's Old Judge Radbourne (nice, but not the portrait). Nobody would give me more than $50 for my beautiful rookie Frank Robinson! I finally asked someone why. "People don't like him," the guy said.

Still have a rookie Robinson, but it's centered a little high. How'd I happen to have two? Bought the --ach, you know, ____'s meats, 1957, too. I don't care if you liked him or not!

My gorgeous Radbourne.

By the way, that's the way he spelled it. (see SABR
Our National Pastime, 1985.

Archive · #8 10-11-2002, 06:52 PM

Posted By: Tom A

Huh???

Archive · #9 10-11-2002, 07:47 PM

Posted By: Tom A

first feedback has arrived. and its positive.

Archive · #10 10-11-2002, 07:48 PM

Posted By: John(z28jd)

Bad move Tom,you might get the explanation....just let it slide

Archive · #11 10-12-2002, 09:55 AM

Posted By: Dan Mathewson

you don't have to worry about any fraud here sir. me and my brother are putting together a nice t206 collection.
i'm selling this certain one due to condition and i need the money to pay him back for some of the items he purchased for me. plus buying like my brother does on ebay he always needs money coming in. especially the money i owe him. i hope this answers your questions and if you have any more let me know. please. i will also let my brother read this email so he has some idea of who you are if you have any further questions and i'm not available to answer them he can. by the way i'll be glad to give you all the history on this card i know if you would like also. thanks

Archive · #12 10-12-2002, 10:41 AM

Posted By: Tom A

Huh. just noticed he has 39 bid retractions since Sept. 25. Hope whoever won it doesn't get screwed, but I'm glad I got outbid.

Archive · #13 10-12-2002, 05:57 PM

Posted By: Bigb13

How does ebay allow 39 bid retractions. And now he is bidding on a Magie Error. Which is near 500.00.

Archive · #14 10-13-2002, 12:15 AM

Posted By: Brian C Daniels

I'm the bidder and seller and all the auctions I bid on are mine as well!!! Now find us some Matty's to buy beinbg as I was outbid with exactly one second left on the Dockman!!! ( I'm bored so I am selling cause I need money and bidding on junk just because )

Archive · #15 10-13-2002, 12:54 AM

Posted By: Bruce Moreland

I routinely sell stuff because I need money. I don't say that in my auctions, because it seems kind of obvious. If I did say it, people would see me buying and selling cards from the same set.

He didn't say that he needs money to pay for an operation for his grandma. For all we know, he needs money to buy more cards.

The thing that bothers me about this guy is the bid retractions. There is little excuse to have one bid retraction, much less 39.

bruce

Archive · #16 10-13-2002, 09:21 AM

Posted By: John(z28jd)

grandslam500 was just NARU'd off ebay,guess the 39 bid retractions did him in

Archive · #17 10-13-2002, 09:33 AM

Posted By: Bigb13

Check out this guy. s.jeff1

Archive · #18 10-13-2002, 09:35 AM

Posted By: Tom A

I'm glad you posted this... suddenly I am the high bidder on an auction that I never was winning, because GrandeSalami500 got booted. So i don't have email confirmation that I ever bid on it (my max bid was less than his). Nice coding Ebay.

Archive · #19 10-13-2002, 09:40 PM

Posted By: jay behrens

go to your My eBay page. That should list your max bid.

Jay