Photo sellers watch out for this guy: ferdie1951

[D. Bergin]

Silly, it's right there in the picture you put up.

It's actually one of the reasons I prefer photos over cards. Photo guys don't generally care about crap like that, it's just one more sign of usage, for whatever reason. It's the image on the front that's important.

Did this guy think it was going to help him with a PSA grade to tear it off?

[drcy]

Not a fan of modern bar codes, but it was obviously there in the picture before he bought it. As with buying trade cards in a scrapbook album, you try to remove it at your own risk.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by drcy

Not a fan of modern bar codes, but it was obviously there in the picture before he bought it. As with buying trade cards in a scrapbook album, you try to remove it at your own risk.

Unfortunately, that is the way that Historic Images and Jay Parrino (JP the Mint, MMG Archives) keep track of the newspaper archives they are selling. I do know that Historic Images uses some stickers that are easily removed from the back as I do it all the time. One of the owners of HI is a member here and has mentioned that as such.

David, as for scrapbooks, isn't distilled water a wonderful thing? I have had great success using it on those equine based glues both removing items from pages and removing glue from the back of items using q-tips. My cast iron book press (think Uncle Fester in the Addams Family) also helps flatten the items after removal.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Michael B

Unfortunately, that is the way that Historic Images and Jay Parrino (JP the Mint, MMG Archives) keep track of the newspaper archives they are selling. I do know that Historic Images uses some stickers that are easily removed from the back as I do it all the time. One of the owners of HI is a member here and has mentioned that as such.

There are lots of 'things' not original to the print that can be removed from their backs, but I never do it unless I need to expose something else on the back that is helpful;e.g.-photographer's stamp or writing. It just doesn't make sense to me to remove something off a non-displayable area of an item, purely for aesthetic reasons.

The front is a different matter, but even removing crop marks or bits of glued-on paper is unnecessary unless you plan on displaying or selling the print. Just my opinion - lots of personal preferences here.

As an update, I discussed with ebay's escalation department and they admitted their error. Amazing, but true. It will get handles to my satisfaction.