BROADWAY RICK IS A TRUE LEGEND.......

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

HOW IS THIS GUY STILL IN BUISNESS? EX+ with minor back damage? What's major, No back at all?

Have a look.......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dllViewItem&item=2784336317&category=31719


This guy is amazing........

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

try this.......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2784336317&category=3179


Ok that's better...

Thanks Brian

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Posted By: slacks

I have NM+ Cobb with staining and a couple creases maybe he can sell for me.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Or try this one. Never heard ofa press pin being issued for the LCS.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50130&item=2768612714

Check out the feedback on the item. The seller found out after the fact that it is not a press pin.

Broadway Rick's Scam Zone lives up to its name.

Jay

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I complained some months ago about a major auction house's propensity for doing this kind of stuff with their cards. I questioned the legitimacy of their listing a lot of Zeenuts as having "x" condition without respect to corner clipping, writing and/or back damage. Rick is a person whose business practices are loathesome (e.g., his admitted propensity for shilling his own auctions), but saying a card is ex+ but has back damage is sui generis for the auctioneers lately.

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Posted By: MW

Warshawlaw,

Good point. I think one of two conclusions can be drawn from extenuated examples of auction hyperbole:

(1) The seller is so desperate to realize a high price that he will resort to any chicanery or deception. This deception may take the form of a simple omission or a calculated (and often ridiculous) attempt to linguistically disguise certain aspects of condition that would normally be an essential part of forthright and straightforward disclosure (e.g., the Mastro Zeenut lot).

(2) The seller (auction house) shows preferential treatment to particular consignors so as to solidify and enhance those business relationships and augment profits, often at the expense of the bidding public (e.g., Superior's standard auction disclaimer).