Discontinued for now.....Babe Ruth signed Laurel Card mint 10!

[sportsnbikes]

I just joined last week and I'd understand if there were some sort of a waiting period. I understand Leon is against that. When it comes right down to it, one could always join and then come back after the waiting period to scam. I guess you'd have to look at the contributions they made in X amount of days to decide if you would bid or not.

[EvilKing00]

I wouldnt buy anything at a price like that from a guy whos new and no one knows.

[Bpm0014]

+1

[GoldenAge50s]

The website OP supplied has just added another card w/ a different name & the Babe sig is IDENTICAL!

That sig is preprinted regardless of the what the holder states.

NOTE: I decided to take another look & there ARE some subtle differences in the Ruth sig I didn't see before! My Bad!

[ATP]

FWIW, the example shown in the other thread (Not the one the OP is offering)... that is very well loved... the one made out to Chris Franks, used to be mine. I bought it from Chris Franks who was there as a child. The signature on it is definitely not preprinted, you can see the fountain pen overlaps and is without a doubt an authentic Ruth signature.

[GoldenAge50s]

Thanks Jeff. I was way too hasty when I posted so I went back & looked again and saw what I didn't see the 1st time.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ATP

FWIW, the example shown in the other thread (Not the one the OP is offering)... that is very well loved... the one made out to Chris Franks, used to be mine. I bought it from Chris Franks who was there as a child. The signature on it is definitely not preprinted, you can see the fountain pen overlaps and is without a doubt an authentic Ruth signature.

The original poster of this item lied about literally everything on his registration. I don't see him being allowed to be a member for that reason. After he was banned he emailed asking why. I told him because of a bad phone number and a fictitious name to start with. He then started asking questions and asking for assurances about his info. I just told him no thanks and please go away. I don't want to play games with registrations.

[ullmandds]

personally I think a 90 day waiting period is an excellent idea. i'd guess most crooks come on here looking for a quick hit...who's going to wait out the 90 days before trying something fishy?

I think it'd be an effective deterrent!

[gregr2]

Leon - as always you do an incredible job of keeping this forum safe for us!! Thanks for all your hard work!!

Greg

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

personally I think a 90 day waiting period is an excellent idea. i'd guess most crooks come on here looking for a quick hit...who's going to wait out the 90 days before trying something fishy?

I think it'd be an effective deterrent!

I am always open to suggestion. My concern about this, as I have stated, is enforcing it as well as potentially ADDING security for a scammer. Let's say we have 90 day waiting period. Everyone starts to think we are even safer than we are. Then the scammer who signed up 91 days ago comes on and scams someone, as that someone who got scammed, had a false sense of security. As I also said, show me 1 person scammed from a newbie, who is out money, and we will continue this discussion. Until then I think our members do a fantastic job of letting me know of potential issues. When reported they get looked into immediately too. And lastly to all or our members, please, please continue to be our eyes and ears on the board.....thanks to all..

I should add that I don't know if this OP is a scammer or not but he lied about everything to get in....so was quickly shown the door out.