ty cobb garter

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Everyone is watching this, so I figure a $100,000 card is hard to "out". Below is the Garter from Hunt and then the below that is the one from Ebay. I will not be bidding on the item offered on Ebay, cause the story is a little fishy to say the least. BUT, it looks soooo good, it will be hard not to wonder what if. The 2 cards look very (very) similar. Anyone have any thoughts?

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Posted By: dan mckee

An overseas scam is my bet.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Same card. Scam.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Beware of Germans bearing garters.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Dan, roll your tongue back into your mouth. Total scam. Does anyone honestly think it is conceivable that someone would have a card such as this, not get it graded, and sell it from a foreign country?

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Posted By: Anonymous

Nope, scam. The identical top-to-bottom off-centering on the front of both cards give this away. Of all cards, why did they choose to scam this one!

-Seth B.

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Posted By: Jeremy W.

It appears to have a little border on the bottom. If I had to guess, I'd guess fake though.

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Jeff-
I know it is a fake. I just wanted it to be real like the holmes to Jax that I passed on for $4k. I picked up a raw Jackson Sporting News on Ebay a while back and got it in an SGC 50 holder. This one is a tad more obvious. I did consider it to the point that I called Mastercard and asked them to back me up. When they said no, I knew I was over my head. You know your a baseball card junkie when... You call Mastercard! Thanks Leon

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Yeah, that's the problem with the card: no way any credit card company or paypal will cover this disaster.

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

the bottom left is different and the outer part of the inside diamond frameline has orange , to where this has the outer edge tones.

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Posted By: fkw

I cant say if the auction is legit, but the 2 cards pictured are not the same exact card.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

i'm with fkw.

i cannot say whether this is a legit card or auction (probably not real) BUT...

top-bottom & left-right centering are totally different.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I have an officemate who is presently in Germany and will be for another week. I emailed the seller and told him that if I win the auction I would like to wire funds to Germany and have my friend hand deliver cash for payment for the card. The seller has not responded.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

actually, i just had both images side-by-side...

they are closer then i originally thought...i am seeing the same little stains/imperfections on both...probably the same scan, just much lighter, faded image.

if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

edited to add: to me the centering is still different, but that could have been photoshoped or cropped somehow...

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Posted By: Steve Murray

"Same card. Scam."

I stand by my statement. The corner wear tells the story.

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Posted By: Bob C

Anthony, I believe they call them lederhosen over there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MGQJaWbyM

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Ebay has pulled the listing.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Damn it to hell. I received an email back from the seller about my request to have someone meet him in Germany with money if I won the auction. The answer was complete gibberish.

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Posted By: leon

Jeff- you could have bought a big bag of nothing.....I always appreciate big bags of nothing....

idiot scammers....