Stop with these Reprints!

Volod · #1 03-30-2015, 08:10 PM

"An interested buyer thinks to himself, "well, I don't know. It sure looks real. Ok, I'll drop 10, 15, 20 bucks on it. Hey, what if it's actually real? Then I'd get it for a steal! What a deal! Yeah, I'll bid $20 bucks on the chance he doesn't know what he's really got..."
Is it ever really possible to cheat an honest buyer?

brian1961 · #2 03-31-2015, 11:42 AM

Are you connoting "honest buyer" with a gullible customer? --Brian

Volod · #3 04-05-2015, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brian1961

Are you connoting "honest buyer" with a gullible customer? --Brian

No, it's just that the old bromide, "you can't cheat an honest man," suggests that a buyer trying to take advantage of someone else's ignorance is not honest, gullibility aside.

brian1961 · #4 04-05-2015, 07:34 PM

Steve, I'm pretty slow sometimes at catching on. Thank you for your patience with me in explaining the line of thinking.

You have expressed a valid point, my collecting compadre. There are bad sellers, and some monsters in the form of buyers. I will never, ever forget the scathing indictment upon buyers that Joe Orlando penned in his "Taking My Hacks" column in the SPORTS MARKET REPORT. I could not find the entry among the archived issues on their site. I distinctly recall the time frame being about 2001-2002, and the title of Joe's column was "Heirloom Doom". It was about as ugly as it can get. A prime example of why Joe always signs off with, "Never Get Cheated".

A fascinating and rather humorous example happened upon a pawn shop earlier this year on the West Coast. Seems a gent was browsing through the shop and happened upon a diver's watch. With so many glitzy "looks like an expensive watch" el-cheapos, the timepiece connoisseur recognized the diver's watch as a seldom seen prime example of an elite brand that only made several hundred of them a year back in the day (about 1961). He paid about 25 bucks for it. Whereupon he took his bounty to either a major auction firm specializing in timepieces, or wherever it was, and garnered about 25,000 dollars for his find. Not often does a pawn shop gets the shaft; almost invariably, it's the other way around. Time to do something else with my life.

Regards, Brian Powell

vthobby · #5 04-05-2015, 09:14 PM

He still got almost 300 page views on the T206 reprint Cobb and it brought $100 and positive feedback from the buyer!!!!!!

Unbelievable!

Mike

brian1961 · #6 04-07-2015, 11:40 AM

Mike, that is amazing. A hundred bucks; as someone pointed out initially, that's serious money for some flat out reprints. ---Brian Powell

ALR-bishop · #7 04-07-2015, 02:55 PM

Here are some Reprints I have

The one on the right is a reprint

One on left is reprint

others

One of these is a reprint...of sorts

Reprints from SI

Most baseball cards are "reprints"

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