Most Honorable/Ethical Situation you've dealt with...

[mintacular]

Just wondering in all your years of collecting if you ever had a deal happen whereby you made a mistake, etc. and someone on the other end "did the right thing" and helped fix the problem. I guess I'm thinking of examples when a big $ card came back altered and the seller refunded you when they could've ignored you. Or maybe an instance when you had some rare backs or high #'s etc that you did not know about, and instead of taking advantage or your ignorance they offered you more than the original selling $. I guess there might be a lot more horror stories the other way around, but I also know there must be some examples when morality trumped profit. After all, at the end of the day they are just baseball cards.

[Ladder7]

delete, i misread the definition

[Mark]

Deleted because overtaken by events.
Mark L

[mintacular]

I believe 'Ladder7' is being faceitious (sic)

[scooter729]

I submitted cards to one of the two big grading companies, and received back not only my cards, but also someone else's cards in the mail (probably $2K - $3K worth of cards that got packed in the shipment with mine).

I notified the grading company and returned them. My next several orders were done at no cost to thank me for the honesty.

[iggyman]

I don't have any mushy Walt Disney Hannah Montana story to share. But I'm going to throw this sad tale on the table. In the Heritage 2010 November Dallas Signature Sports Collectibles Auction #7028, I won lot #80364. It was an E92 Dockman graded partial set of 11 with both Honus Wagner poses ( http://sports.ha.com/common/view_ite...8&Lot_No=80364 ). Here is a pic, as shown in the auction:

E92 DOCK missing.jpgE92 DOCK back missing.jpg

I was really happy with the purchase, since I thought I got it at a respectable price, the cards had nice eye appeal on the front, plus I've always had a lust appetite for the E92 Wagner(s). I paid in a prompt manner (the next day via E-check) and waited and waited and waited. I called Heritage a couple of times, both times I was told the cards would be shipped the next day. Finally, after waiting until mid December, I called again and was finally told the truth. The cards were lost/misplaced (stolen(?)) somewhere in the shipping department. Within a week I had a refund check from Heritage. Somewhere, someplace...........perhaps in Kansas, eleven Dockman cards reside which at this point have bad karma.

Lovely Day...

[steve B]

Hanging out at a shop one time around 1980.

There was a small box of cards that had been offered to the shop and they'd looked it over. Late 40's, early 50's, maybe some earlier? Mostly in somewhat worn condition.

I got to preview it since I was one of the people that hung out constantly and was working on a 48 Bowman set.

There were some leaf baseball, and I noticed one that was one of the singleprints. When I made mention of that the shop guy got concerned and checked all the leaf cards. There were a few sps. Which changed the offer quite a bit, but the worry then was that the seller would think they were actually worth even more because of the change so soon after the original offer. But the box had been shopped around to a couple other places and they didn't want to be way low either. So the call was made. The seller was very happy, everyone else had missed the SPs so the new offer was a whole lot more.
I didn't get anything directly, but the shop was always very good to me.


I wasn't involved, but I saw another guy I hung out at take an altered coin back roughly 15 years after he'd originally sold it. No reciept, nothing except it would have been uncommon enough that he remembered the coin. Customer said it had come back as altered, he looked at it and agreed, then they both tried to recall the selling price. Which they both thought was roughly the same ammount. check written problem fixed. Total maybe 10 minutes. I learned a lot from that.

Steve B

[JamesGallo]

I had a pile of stolen cards returned to me by a fellow board member. He was not out any money but put in a lot of time and agravation, so I am very thankful. I bought a card from him the next show I saw him at. It was nice to give him some of my money.

James G