Graded magazine cut-outs

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Posted By: Rob M (ramram) 

I'm not a fan of graded cards in the first place but the grading of magazine cut-outs just continues to blow my mind. I've seen these on ebay for a long time but figured nobody in their right mind really bid on them. Tonight I looked at a few and noticed that some fools actually do buy them. After reading the seller's feedback it's obvious there are still plenty of suckers in the world (no comment necessary Hankron) as some didn't even realize what they were bidding on. The flip side of the story - how can any company actually grade these cut-outs and expect to be consider anything more than a comedy show? I suppose the next thing to show up will be a company that specializes in cutting out the pictures ("our cuts will be so straight that we guarantee your item will grade NrMt!"). Anyway, the auction below was kind of the icing on the cake. Notice the guy runs Private Auctions so nobody will tip-off the idiots.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31718&item=2769055351

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Posted By: jay behrens

Actually, the seller does the grading himself and most of the bidders are shill bidders to try and make it look like people are interested.

Jay

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Posted By: Elliot

Rob, if some lazy guy would get off his ass, you would be able to use the search function and find many threads about this practice, and the seller. Suffice it to say that we all deplore these auctions and the duplicity of eBay of allowing them to be listed in the card section.

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Posted By: runscott

I was at an antique mall last weekend and saw two fuzzy-headed foreigners contemplating a vintage "baseball card" purchase. It turned out to be a picture of the Yankees (and Babe Ruth) cut out of a 1948 Sporting News and slabbed by Roy Huff (AAA). They were ready to pay the $29 for it and were very surprised when I explained the scam to them.

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Posted By: Hankron

In the end, much of it depends on how much you pay. There was a recent incident where a distraught man bought a fake '1930s African-American woodcut' for $30 (It was an actual handmade print and sharp looking too, but the fakery involved the date and artist). I told him that, even as a fake, if he planned on hanging it on the wall, it was probably worth $30.

It's kind of like with my mom. I don't worry about her buying fakes. She's so 'frugal', with her file of coupons and rebates, that if something turns out to be a coutnerfeit she still probably got a deal.