Aging reprints - what is he doing?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The cards look like reprints (bad reprints) and the seller says they're reprints. In the scheme of things, if a buyer is going to be fooled by these listings, they're going to be fooled elsewhere.

With private auctions, bid pricing is unreliable-- in part because the seller often uses the privateness specifically to hide fake bidding. In fact, I think some sellers artificially drive up the prices early to make the card appear to be a hot commodity-- sort of a form of adveretising. If one of these cards breaks $100, I find it hard to believe the bidding is square. If the bidding is clean, you would need at least two rubes to get the price that high. One rube not noticing that the first sentence says the card is a reprint couldn't do it on his own. As Ross Perot would say, "It takes just one person to pick up and throw a badger, but it takes two people to play catch. Of course, from where I come from, folks have enough sense to try and pick up a badger."

(For those unfamiliar, badgers may have cute, cuddly appearances, but are famously bad tempered and savage fighters, with long claws and sharp teeth.).

I've seen those 'oven baked' reprints. When I was a kid my mom made homemade crackers that had the same brown edges. Naturally, I protested that she was using the oven to bake crackers not cookies.