What do you think of this Heritage offering?

Runscott · #1 02-22-2013, 08:23 PM

In fairness, you can't argue with Chris' willingness to satisfy any doubts the winning bidder might have:

"If the winning bidder would like to have the baseball sent to the FBI labs at Quantico, VA, then we would be pleased to work with them to help facilitate that process prior to the settlement of the auction and as long as the process did not damage the baseball in any manner."

RichardSimon · #2 02-22-2013, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Runscott

In fairness, you can't argue with Chris' willingness to satisfy any doubts the winning bidder might have:

"If the winning bidder would like to have the baseball sent to the FBI labs at Quantico, VA, then we would be pleased to work with them to help facilitate that process prior to the settlement of the auction and as long as the process did not damage the baseball in any manner."

Sure, anybody can walk into the FBI lab at Quantico and say "gentlemen, please examine this." Easy to say lets get the FBI to take a look, but is that really a possibility? My guess would be no it is not possible but that is only my guess.
It is not a criminal case, the FBI is not investigating the individuals involved with this (at least I don't think they are), so is the FBI really going to just take a baseball that walks in off the street and submit it to vigorous testing?

shelly · #3 02-22-2013, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Runscott

In fairness, you can't argue with Chris' willingness to satisfy any doubts the winning bidder might have:

"If the winning bidder would like to have the baseball sent to the FBI labs at Quantico, VA, then we would be pleased to work with them to help facilitate that process prior to the settlement of the auction and as long as the process did not damage the baseball in any manner."

If I where the third largest auction house in the world, with the most respected authenticators in this hemisphere. I sure would like to make sure before anyone of my customers would pay $ 1000,000 or more that what was purchased is authentic. Why not make sure now. Why would anyone send it to the FBI unless they thought it was not real. If you are so sure why in the hell would you even make that statement?

The only way that ball would be damaged is if some idiot bought it.

Runscott · #4 02-22-2013, 09:02 PM

Hey, now I'm laughing as hard at me as you are. But on the other hand, I know nothing about the workings of the FBI (and I'm happy for that), and maybe Chris doesn't either.

David Atkatz · #5 02-22-2013, 09:12 PM

Just returned from the pre-auction reception. Looked at the ball as carefully as I could.
I still think it's good.

shelly · #6 02-23-2013, 10:49 AM

Well, I guess that settles it.

Runscott · #7 02-23-2013, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by shelly

Well, I guess that settles it.

Actually, it does. If someone wants that ball, and thinks it is real, that's the end of it - they wouldn't bid on it otherwise, they certainly aren't sending it to a lab to get it tested, and the last thing they want is to find out ten years from now that it's a fake. When it's sitting up on their mantel, if anyone even looks at it and winces a little, they'll change the subject to the latest Lexus models.

In my opinion it's a bad way to buy collectibles, but you have a much larger selection to choose from, and you have less future angst to deal with.

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