Collect.Com Auction Catalog on-line

[drc]

I stand by what I said, in part as it's a courtesy each of us would wanted extended to us if we made a mistake. I'm not saying this courtesy is due to obvious fraudsters, known serial offenders or people who have ignored your help in the past. Also note that I said it was okay to go public if the auctioneer ignored you and/or didn't correct the problem.

Did you know that at the GameUsedUniverse forum, posters are required to first contact the seller before posting about an authenticity problem? I believe this is to allow honest sellers, often eBayers, to correct an honest error or once in a while correct the complainer.

[Mr. Mitt]

Bob came on a public forum to advertise his auction, free of charge via a new thread. I feel that questioning the authenticity of a highly publicized lot is justified given the circumstances. If he had not taken this course, I would have questioned him privately after I received the catalog or viewed his website.

Furthermore, John and I have information regarding past forgeries/reproductions of the item in question. Do you feel it best for us to remain quiet and try to get the item pulled from behind the scenes or to inform and educate the collecting community who, perhaps, weren't privy to its history?

Whether done publicly or privately, the end result should be a withdrawn lot. If they want to succeed as an auction house, admitting and rectifying an oversight is the ethical course of action. No one will fault them for this. Ignoring the issue, however, and letting the lot run to fruition would be more telling.

Jerry

[wonkaticket]

Only in this hobby and this forum can one respond to another forum members question about an item which is commonly known to be faked. And have to spend time justifying why it wasn’t done to someone else’s liking or standards. LOL

Funny Jerry and I should have handled differently so there should have been due diligence on our part but the auction house gets the benefit of the doubt. Hmmm the item sells or doesn’t sell Jerry and I benefit how again? What’s our motive again?

I also think private notification is silly if an auction house has nothing to hide and uses this forum to promote items and in doing so is notified publicly that said item or items may be questionable. It’s an easy fix remove item or items if they agree and thank the forum for its support and input. If they disagree explain why so bidders can bid with ease and confidence.

Nobody expects folks to be perfect but we expect business owners to be professional and fix mistakes which I’m sure Collect.com will be as they have given me no reason to think they won’t.

This applys to all auction houses, grading companies and sellers etc.

Still the bigger question is a valid one that folks have raised me included.

An auction house that is affiliated with a company who derives revenue from known fraudulent sources like Coaches Corner does seem to be a conflict of interest bad Stall & Dean item excluded.

Cheers,

John

[wonkaticket]

On another note there is also a batting version of this Stall & Dean ad correct anyone have a scan?

Love to see it.

[calvindog]

John, we need some lawyers to come on now and tell us that what you did was positively evil. And then post 3000 times about it. And then agree with you at the end.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by calvindog

John, we need some lawyers to come on now and tell us that what you did was positively evil. And then post 3000 times about it. And then agree with you at the end.

And then we could end it all with a huge cockfight.

[nolemmings]

Or we could just wait for one lawyer to come onto a thread and spout his self-righteous yet-always-right-without-question pap. Beats the hell out of getting a variety of opinions.

[calvindog]

Or we could just wait for another lawyer to lay out obviously incorrect law in the most self-righteous manner any strip mall lawyer ever could.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

And then we could end it all with a huge cockfight.

When I posted this at 8:56 last night, little did I know how prophetic it would be.

[bcbgcbrcb]

If we just look at the auction for what it is, there is not much premium material after Lot # 1 - NCP's..........