Cuban cards - eBay

[Brian Van Horn]

On this matter, the blame is simply mine.

[Jeffrompa]

It has been my experience that their are many Cuban watchers of items who are watching and reporting items . If it is " pre embargo " it shouldn't be prohibited but it seems like if an item is reported it is removed without investigation . Guess they have taken it further now .

[ValKehl]

Derek,
I, too, received this same email today from Cecilia, who comes across to me as a very nice person. I've had several communications with her over the past several weeks re her 1924 Diaz cards. In my first communication, I asked her if she had any Washington Senators cards, hoping that I might be able to pick up some of the ones I need for my card collection of players who were on the Senators 1924 World Series Championship Team. She kindly gave me a list of the Senators cards she had and promised to list all of them on eBay at the same time in the near future. She did as promised, and I was able to win 2 of the 3 cards I badly wanted - "Oyster Joe" Martina & W.H. McGrew - which arrived in today's mail.

Despite placing an insanely-high, last-second bid, I was outbid on this this poor-condition Paul Zahniser card: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CUBA-1924-Ba...vip=true&rt=nc
I assumed that a 1924 Diaz set collector decided he just had to win this card, regardless of the cost. But, Cecilia kindly informed me that the Zahniser card was won by a Zahniser relative with the same last name, which softens my disappointment a bit!
Val

[Leon]

Just curious if this was the seller? I picked up this card and think it could be some sort of vintage reprint. It's really hard to tell even holding it in hand.. I like the players name though...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281389978843...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT



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[Brian Van Horn]

Leon,

That is the seller.

[Exhibitman]

Nice to know eBay isn't hogging the supply of village idiots but has spread them around to its sister companies. What we need to do now is put "Cuba" into every listing.

[painthistorian]

We have experienced the most absolute moronic policy issue last 2 days regarding selling any pre 1951 Cuban League Baseball Cards, graded or ungraded. Now paypal will threaten to restrict and possibly limit your account if you have any mention of Cuba, or Cuban in your e bay listing or paypal HTMK description box..we found this out very recently without warning or knowledge, they told us to PULL listings off e bay but since e bay accepts these cards and it was less than 12 hours left, e bay refused to cancel. We have spent over 7 hours on phone talking to mostly inept people, only one very sharp paypal supervisor finally explained this....both paypal and e bay refused to resolve this as it is impossible for even them to contact paypal compliance division. They stated we have to reject any paypal payments and return them to buyer or risk further problems. This is so absurd as this is pre 1958, paypal supervisor stated this is a FEDERAL MANDATE to them and gave some federal agency as the party that requires paypal's crackdown without any knowledge of when item was produced. It even applies that if you sell an auto graphed pictured of Cuba Gooding Jr or Mark Cuban, or Cuban Missile Crisis book, they will be flagged also as the settings they use flagged and outlaw key words...welcome to 2015. They make you promise never to sell these items again and its still not totally clear as e bay still allows these cards to be sold and still requires we accept electronic method of payment (paypal) with NO warning about this policy. What a horror!

[dabigyankeeman]

Wow, I have bought quite a few of the Cuban Propagandas Montiel cards made around 1946-1947 on Ebay. Neat stuff. Ridiculous to try to make people stop selling these great collectibles.