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Posted By: Bobby

Since I go through every page on eBay for my site I noticed that at the end of every night you see for auction a lot of crap from the scammers with cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers with there own grade. Always for sale for a lot of money for something virtually worthless. What is there thinking? That some one is desperate and they just went the whole night and got bet out of every auction so they might be tempted to buy their crap.

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Posted By: barrysloate

There have been several threads about this previously on the board, and basically the object he is selling is not a card, the holder he uses has four screws so it means nothing, and the label and grading service isn't worth a lick. Added to this, I rarely or ever see anyone bidding on them. And yet he still persists. I can't explain it any better than you can. Why bother?

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Maybe he has found that a market exists among impulse buyers who have been partying much of the night; and are perhaps a bit off on their typical judgement.

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Posted By: edacra

Unless there's a lot of shill bidding going on there are plenty of people falling for it...I think we've all fallen for an Ebay scam at some point.

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Posted By: DJ

I believe people are falling for it. There were three larger lots on eBay of trading cards over the last couple months (shoebox like collections) and in each of the offered collections, there were a couple. Truly sad, but if he sells 10-12, he has his rent paid for and can buy more scissors and more screw downs. Truly pathetic on so many levels.

DJ

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Posted By: Mark

My wife nearly bought one for me for christmas once.

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Posted By: Josh K.

Didnt you then buy it for yourself Mark

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Posted By: Mark

Yes, but she nearly outsniped me.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Take into consideration that not EVERYBODY has been indoctrinated into the ebay experience. There are new people everyday. The sellers are probably hoping that some new sucker will fall for the scam and not figure out that they were duped until it's too late. Just my guess...

It's capitalism at it's best and worst... like the quote goes: "there's a sucker born every minute."