Elitest card hawkers

Archive · #1 01-21-2002, 03:40 PM

Posted By: runscott

Okay, I just irritated another big "PRO" (self-described) dealer. So what. One of the BIG dealers bid on a fake Cobb with a Ty Cobb back a while back. Like an elephant, I never forgot their name. Now I'm seeing that they sell autograph cuts and GUARANTEE authenticity. Sorry, I just don't buy it - who in their right mind would buy an autograph cut on a white index card from someone who bids on fake vintage cards??? So I sent them an email and got a scathing elitest reply about how it must have been their employees and they auction things through Sothebys and Mastro...yak.yak.yak. blah blah ...Barry Halper...blah...blah...I can show anyone the ropes..blah...blah...

I really don't care - I may not be a PRO like this guy claims to be, but I've never bid on a fake Ty Cobb with a fake back and if I was a PRO then none of my employees who I "SHOWED THE ROPES TO" would bid on **** like that either. I could forgive MASTRO one million times for the Ichiro thing before I cut this guy one ounce of slack. Tell me, what do you think?
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Archive · #2 01-21-2002, 03:49 PM

Posted By: runscott

I originally asked the guy how he could guarantee autograph authenticity and where he got the autograph. I did not get answers to either of these questions, just a bunch of name-dropping.

Archive · #3 01-21-2002, 05:00 PM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

incredible! The whole thing was obviously a setup--several people agreed to bid on the "card" and then all retracted their bids. Nobody actually BID on the thing. I'm sure some of the "bidders" were the same person (the ones with 0 feedback), but there were severasl legitimate people--but not bidding in earnest. You don't have 15 people bidding on a card and then all retracting their bids by coincidence!

Julie

Archive · #4 01-21-2002, 05:21 PM

Posted By: runscott

according to him, his employee placed the bid and then he retracted it. My point is that there's no place for elitism in this hobby - no one is immune from making mistakes. And if you claim that you can show ANYONE the ropes because you're an expert, then what is one of your proteges doing bidding on crap like this?

Archive · #5 01-21-2002, 08:27 PM

Posted By: john

there is alot of bids that were retracted right away on that card,good job to whoever did it

Archive · #6 01-21-2002, 08:40 PM

Posted By: Charlie

Don't you hate when that happens?....how do you do the smiley face?

Archive · #7 01-21-2002, 10:55 PM

Posted By: Lee Behrens

It's winking at me!!!!!!!

Archive · #8 01-21-2002, 11:39 PM

Posted By: Anonymous

It's winking at me!

Archive · #9 01-22-2002, 05:10 AM

Posted By: john

you press the ";" and the ")" and put them right next to each other,i think the first one is called a semi-colon but i could be wrong,and the other one is the parenthesis

Archive · #10 01-22-2002, 11:01 PM

Posted By: Anonymous

Archive · #11 01-23-2002, 05:49 AM

Posted By: John

:pi wonder who the anonymous poster is? ;)(it actually says forum owner by the remote name)

Archive · #12 01-23-2002, 06:14 AM

Posted By: runscott

you turned by gripe thread into fun!

Archive · #13 01-23-2002, 09:42 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

Now Here This Charlie:

1. put a SPACE btween your last word and the smiley face.

2. hit":"
3.hit")"
(that doesn't mean hit the quotation marks, just the colon and the close parentheses)
4. scroll down below the box, and click on "formatted signature."
5. A new, smaller box will appear below your message box. below that is the "respond," which you're now ready to click on. YOU WILL NOT SEE YOUR SMILEY FACE TILL YOU RETURN TO INDEX AND GO BACK TO YOUR RESPONSE>

Julie

Cry face is the same , but with the other parenthesis.

Archive · #14 01-23-2002, 09:43 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

;)

Archive · #15 01-23-2002, 09:45 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

Sorry, Charlie. My first directions were for the simple smiley and cry.
To get the wink, use a semicolon instead of a colon. I'll be damned!

Archive · #16 01-23-2002, 02:21 PM

Posted By: john

:(im sorry,i have nothing better to do,if anyone wants to know some obscure baseball facts im the person to ask,if i dont know it,i got tons of books and time to look it up,anyone except runscott (until our feedback race is over that is)

Archive · #17 01-23-2002, 02:26 PM

Posted By: john

im sorry,i have nothing better to do,if anyone wants to know some obscure baseball facts im the person to ask,if i dont know it,i got tons of books and time to look it up,anyone except runscott (until our feedback race is over that is)

Archive · #18 01-24-2002, 04:27 AM

Posted By: john

press : & p you use the same symbol for the eyes as in the happy face,and sad face and a lower case p for the mouth/tongue

Archive · #19 01-24-2002, 09:24 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

;)Tongue?

Archive · #20 01-24-2002, 09:26 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

Archive · #21 01-24-2002, 09:47 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

....

Archive · #22 01-24-2002, 01:28 PM

Posted By: Julie Vognar

Archive · #23 01-24-2002, 07:16 PM

Posted By: Charlie

I'll try them again!

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