nitpickers ...

That IS quite an honor ;)

Why not take a shot with your face next to the card so that the card can be seen more clearly. If you zoom all the way in on this card it is a total blur.

I don't believe this!
 

I have been working like crazy all evening, since about 3:00 to now-12:18 A.M. Indiana time on preparing lessons for upcoming standardized testing for my students; and I thought I would jump on the board before I crashed in bed.......when low and behold, I missed the thread of the year, maybe all-time!:p (Wow! that was a run-on sentence.) This is the funniest thread & baseball card related thing I have ever seen! There have been some crazy threads in the past week on our board! Leon, you have to be going nuts as the administrator lately! My dull Monday turned into "I can't wait to get on the board" Tuesday!

At 11:59, I asked how Andrew acquired the card and why he is willing to sell it for $75,000 when it supposedly last sold for $220,000.

At 12:33, Andrew lists it in the Tobacco section of the B/S/T.

At 12:55, Andrew states he didn't know the card was worth so much money.

SO ---

Andrew still hasn't answered HOW he obtained the card and hasn't answered WHY he is willing to sell it for about 1/3 of the price ti last sold for.

Furthermore, he states that he has been on this board for awhile yet doesn't know that a T206 Wagner (even in THAT condition) is worth quite a bit of money.

Strange.....

David

My dull Monday turned into "I can't wait to get on the board" Tuesday!

Very True Tim!

Tim, it is a conspiracy Leon and the other Admin's have cooked up.

Bring back Cobb and Edwards and their T206 Wagner, add in a guy who thinks Comiskey is in a photo from 1879 and not only has experts to prove it but also auction houses willing to sell it for him (while totally ignoring an expert in photo ID) and THEN to top it off, have a guy named Andrew come on with HIS T206 Wagner.

Why would they do this to us? RATINGS!!!!!

They are about to sell the board to a massive company that is looking to expand its empire and the more page clicks they can have the higher the price they can sell the board for.

David

Awesome Replies!
 

David, Love the Conspiracy Theory!

Hank, You WERE plagiarizing me!:D

This thread keeps getting wackier by the moment, but I've got to get some sleep!

Tim Kindler

I don't have a good enough imagination to dream all of this stuff up. No way.

David makes a good point. As funny as this whole thread is, it doesn't negate the fact that a scam was attempted to be perpetrated by someone that apparently doesn't know too much about cards. Fortunatey, most of us know the provenance of the card and the story behind it so nobody got taken.

Hahahaha gross. Didn't need to hear that, but a good laugh indeed.

I was tired earlier so I took a nap. When I woke up I noticed a locked thread and now this one. At one point I thought I might still be sleeping and only dreaming this since I do have many incredibly detailed dreams but most i'm usually at random colleges and schools or on vacation to places i've never been. I finally realized i'm not dreaming when I saw the Mona Lisa :D. I think that would of been the point where I would have woke up.

That Mona Lisa is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I was in tears!

Very True
 

David,
Yes, this is ceratinly a crazy, humerous thread; but you are correct in that someone knowingly (It certainly appears anyway) tried to scam others. Not being a lawyer or ever educated in such issues, is there really anything anyone can do about it though? :(

Edited: On a lighter note......can't wait to see what Sterling and B&L have in their upcoming auctions!
Tim Kindler

** Hilarious ** I just LOL'ed all over my keyboard

This would make a good Sports Collectors Digest article

Hopefully "race" won't be an issue here.:)

Really? Another T206 thread?

the way hes holding it the holder it perfectly straight. There is no angle from the top sides of the slab or the verticle ones. Thats a perfect placement with a very steady hand

Gesh, i go to bed early one night and i miss all this.

And no reflections. That slab would be bouncing light, either room light or a flash. Its completely flat.

Did a good job of making it blurry so it sells the distance though.

If a vampire doesn't cast a reflection in a mirror why can't we see his clothes? The Invisible Man's clothes were visible. Is a vampire more invisible than the Invisible Man? Does the Wolfman shed? If the Mummy is a rotten body trussed up in dirty bandages, wouldn't you smell him long before he could sneak up on you? How does Frankenstein's monster catch anyone? He walks like an old man with a bad hip. Why don't the Incredible Hulk's pants ever shred like the rest of his clothes?

When I read threads like this I think of these kinds of questions. I think I'll go fling some poo at the tourists outside my cage.

Grandpa's attic?
 

Surprised we haven't heard the 'found it in grandpa's attic' line yet...

BBbbbuutt...but...but....

And to think yesterday I almost posted a question asking for your top ten all time threads on Net54. This still doesn't top "Archive", but it's pretty funny.

I am not even sure why I feel obligated to waste any more time on this, but I will. First off, I called you a f*cknugget in the other thread and for that I am sorry. That was rather childish of me ..... but not nearly as childish as the stunt you are trying to pull here.

If you didn't know before .... you now know that sports collectors are some of the most analytical people on Earth. The fact that you coyly played this off on the phone with Leon befuddles me. The fact that you regained your posting privileges but have not responded to this silly thread and the accusations made towards you befuddles me. The fact that you have no desire to make your story known befuddles me.

"Your card" can be seen here, in the hands of the present owner.... feel free to fast forward to 4 minutes and 14 seconds into the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcrvKWV0mxQ

Within 2 days after purchasing the "Nun Wagner" Dr. DePace was offered $60,000 more than he initially paid for it and his response was:

“I said, ‘What’s the matter with you guys?’ ” DePace said. “It’s no longer just a baseball card; it’s become a religious relic, a St. Jude of memorabilia. I’m keeping it.”

That info can be found here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/sp...nted=all&_r=1&

Furthermore, judging by this guys extensive collection, and his intention to open a non-profit museum, I am with belief that he didn't off the card on the side ..... money is no object to this wealthy man and as stated above, he isn't selling it.

So, how about you either come clean and admit you are a really bad scammer ..... or come up with a better story than the one you gave us?

Your words:

here it is guys.
been in the family for a long time, my grandfather picked it up when he was a kid from someone in georgia. We had it authenticated in 2008, he almost auctioned it off in 2010, however he was not satisfied with the price. I dont really like honus wagner, with this in mind Im willing to trade this for some other cards. Other cards Im interested in include 52 topps mantle 51 bowman mantle, 54 dan dee mantle, goudey babe ruth, cracker jack ty cobb, hank aaron rookie and other high end cards. I dont really know what to value this card at since it is so beat up, with that in mind if my trade is way to high let me know.
Im also
thanks
andrew

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=10079

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=10080

p.s.

I know what you are doing right now :)

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Maybe time to alert Andrew's local authorities. I know my local sheriff has been asking for help in busting Craigslist frauds and internet frauds in general.

We now also have his face, so we can all avoid him at shows as well.

So sad that someone would try this but I am not surprised. Andrew...get help before you land in prison.

Joshua

You "gentlemen" have again proven yourselves to be racists. Picking on the young man simply because he is caucasian, and a masterbater. For shame...:mad:

A lot of fun is being had here but on a serious note, Andrew needs to really think about what he is doing here. I don't know what the law is where he is from but in New Jersey scamming someone out of $75,000.00 is a second degree crime that carries a presumptive state prison term. He does not look like someone who would survive incarceration.

The Mona Lisa thing is still killing me. That's priceless right there :)

Also, I see that our friendly scammer has taken his pics out of the system ..... but I still have them up on my computer screen from before he zapped them.

I am surprised that nobody stated the most obvious flaw in the scandal.

As you can see from the actual auction page, the card is so severely trimmed that there is a TON of space between the card and the edges of the black insert:
http://sports.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...79#58425842051

Here is the picture that Mr. Scammer had posted before he took it off the site. Followed by a simple blow up of him supposedly holding the card. Notice that all you see is black between the card and the edges of the SGC insert in both photos? If it were legit .... Mr. Scammer .... there would be light in the cracks around the card in the second picture.... or at least your white hand would be visible:

To quote my favorite movie:

"Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish! Fresh fish!"

I quote blackadder: " when all else fails, a stubborn, pig-headed refusal to look facts in the face will always see you through".
Now I'm afraid of all t206 wagners and what bodily fluids might be on them :eek:

Manti Te'o would be all over this deal.

Wait a minute! Now I know why people use blacklights on cards! I'm going to be sick.

Serious question, since someone obviously tried harder than normal, let's rate it a 6/10 on the "attempt to scam" scale (posting, story, picture, etc) is it worth it to try and flush him out a bit more? This didn't work on us, but, it might work on someone else.

Andrew. Who's your favorite Little Rascal?

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Is andrew amish? That might explain his photoshop technique?

I honestly believe the FBI should look no further than this board when conducting an investigation into fraud. You guys are amazing!

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I would agree bigtrain and I would add that while I am not in the habit of threatening anyone that I do not believe he looks to be the type to survive the beating he might get after scamming a grown man out of 75,000.

Can't be any worse than the way he's been beating himself..

treating his body like an amusement park

Thats funny sh!t...

He almost got away with it!

It almost looks like one of those forced POW photos...
 

Is anyone sure that's the guy, or just someone that he's kidnapped and is forcing to pretend to hold up a card and then watch some sort of horrible TV program???:eek:

"It rubs the lotion on it's skin"
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LMFAO!!!!! "It rubs the lotion on its skin, it does this whenever its told...."

Put the f***ing lotion in the basket!!