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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-Topps-M...cAAOSwZVhWTlnN
Real one attached. http://www.legendaryauctions.com/Lot...entoryid=46570 Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 11-22-2015 at 11:58 AM. |
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Ebay one.
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It is over 11K-----sure wish it was real
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The flip is pretty good on this one, I think, but the card LOL.
I don't see any obvious damage to the case? Are they now making cases too? Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 11-22-2015 at 11:15 AM. |
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The flip looks very real but as you said the card is a poor copy. Curious what happened once the winner got that fake Bowman rookie that you dug up
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I said this last time it's a inside job ! No doubt this is from somebody that works for PSA . Great job finding this stuff Peter .
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I doubt that very much, actually.
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He doesn't even post a scan of the back of the card. For a card like that you would think he would post a few pics at least. Big red flag just with that
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from what i understand many of the fake older flips and fake older slabs are produced by some scumbag from central/latin america somewhere. Card is really poor reproduction on this one. not even close to real. Good work Peter.
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Are they making slabs? I know at one point there was a discussion where a person I consider to be extremely knowledgeable said no, all the slabs were just tampered with.
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I have heard Both. I am
Honestly not sure. It wasn't to hard to crack the old slabs cleanly so that may have been possible. |
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I saw this one too and assumed it was fake, but decided to take him up on his offer to end the auction early for the right price. I offered 35k and accepted his counter offer of 37, still assuming this was some kind of a scam.
This was his response outside of ebay: Ok, here is the deal. I can end the auction and sell it to you. I request $7000 deposit into my bank account until you get the card. After you verify it, send me the rest. I am using bank transfer for this transaction at this price. Thanks! He did not respond to my request to place the funds in an escrow account until the card could be verified by PSA.
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Pretty much, curiosity, and the off chance that the card was real and it was a bad picture. It took about 5 minutes of time and there wasn't much risk. I certainly wasn't going to wire him a bunch of money without verifying the card.
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There is zero chance that anyone from PSA was involved in photoshopping an image of a reprinted 1952 Mantle into a picture of an already existing card. This one looks purely digital to me. I say there's zero chance the seller ever delivers a physical card.
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Do you think PSA keeps all the old slabs ? I don't thinks . Do think they get trash 100% I do . Do think there's some low wage worker willing to sell those ?
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How was there even an off chance? All you have to do to find the real ones with the same cert is to look at cardtarget.
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As to your question yes I knew there was virtually no chance that card was real, but I wanted to see how he would respond. I guess the same mentality that gets people to buy those obvious reprints we post here. What if? A better question would be who is bidding 10k plus on this card? I would assume someone who is planning to just use the ebay guarantee when things don't work out.
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even people with real mantles wont agree to those terms...they would agree to a paypal regular payment to them that you could cancel I guess later if fake..but they not going to use an escrow most of the time unless you want to pay the escrow fee at least.. |
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I don't have any experience buying cards in this kind of price range but I certainly wouldn't just wire money into someone's account even if I knew the card was real unless I knew something about the seller.
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Just for entertainment value I am tempted to bid 50,000, let him end it early with me as high bidder, and then laugh at him.
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I have never sold anything on ebay, just privately or through auction house. How long after you ship something are the funds in your account and available for withdrawal? I wonder if the plan of this kind of a seller is to cash the money out and close all associated accounts before a claim can be filed. It seems relatively easy to pad a feedback score with a bunch of cheap transactions and then go for a big score like this 52 Mantle. Very scary for collectors who don't know better.
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what does private sale mean?
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Sadly, reporting these to Ebay usually doesn't do any good. There was a "seller" that sold 7 fake cards a couple weeks ago. I reported all of the listings and even called Ebay and explained why the cards were fake. They were all PSA graded cards that had fake labels and cards.
James http://www.ebay.com/sch/trustyourgut...p2046732.m1684 |
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Thanks for outing this one Peter. The card does look really bad, but it's scary to me to imagine if/when someone sticks an authentic, but maybe slightly trimmed Mantle into a holder like this. I've seen a few really nice authentic Mantles sell this year. You could turn $5-$10K cards into $40-$70K cards pretty quickly with these legit looking holders.
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no negative feedback after selling 6 or so fake cards for 1000s? |
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maybe 5 years ago..but now with the current prices , everyone needs to stop looking for 'deals' you will have to bid at auction like everyone else....there are no 'deal's on 1952 mantles...not sure why anyone even clicks those listings... Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 11-22-2015 at 08:14 PM. |
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would you look at a t206 honus wagner psa 3 listed for 200k from a guy with 20 feedback selling a $5.55 fishing rod among feedback.?..I wouldn't even bother to click the listing..its like that now for me on 51B mantle and 52T mantle....if I want one ill just have to pay at a real auction house or from an established real seller ....it really a waste of time now to look to buy from joe public.... Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 11-22-2015 at 08:23 PM. |
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like I said..i don't look anymore its a waste of time....people shouldn't be worried about putting funds in escrow etc...they are all fake...why even risk it....I wont even click any of the listings anymore...
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Well I agree with you there, they are all fake. But I don't feel badly about alerting people and trying to do my part to stop it.
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I have no problem with you doing that..i just see other posters talking about seriously looking to buy cards and talking about putting funds in escrow..it looks like they are putting in real time searching ebay listings... its like lookin for for a real t206 wagner that a guy says found in a house he just bought....it really a waste of time...the 1952 mantle is in that league now....you wont have to warn anyone if people treated the mantle like the t206 wagner...you aren't warning people about buying 'real' t206 wagners....no need too...and shouldn't need to warn about the mantle anymore is what I am saying....but you can do what you want...
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Didn't you say you bought a 52 Mantle off craigslist? There may have been a 1 in a million shot this ebay seller actually had this card, or less. But it didn't hurt anything to find out for sure. Just like it was along shot someone was actually selling a 52 Mantle on craigslist.
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I watch ebay and auction sites for mantles but unfortunately passed on a few in recent months and the prices have gotten out of my range. I have contacted 3 or 4 sellers in the last year from eBay who I now believe had fake mantles or fake pictures of real ones. It certainly is not constantly and never takes much time because these frauds are just looking for someone who will send them money without asking many questions. I mentioned I would talk to someone on the phone and ask for more scans because this also wouldn't take much time and a scammer would be less likely to take those steps. I would take the same precautions with a seller I believe had a real card I was spending thousands or 10s of thousands of dollars on.
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But the reason people don't view a 52T Mantle the same way they view a T206 Wagner is because it simply isn't. T206resource.com doesn't show even one real T206 Wagner as ever having sold on eBay; Real 52T Mantles still sell many times over on eBay. A destroyed, beater of a trimmed Wagner T206 is still a quarter of a million dollar card. The 52T Mantle has been on a sharp rise of late, but it is nowhere near that kind of value. Last edited by Bored5000; 11-23-2015 at 02:31 AM. |
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That observation made me laugh out loud.
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..once it does than I wont believe they are all fakes....basically id like to see people pointing out real ones now and not fake ones since they are fake....threads on real ones would be ok by me..but like I said anyone can do what they want...I just not clicking on anymore of those sketchy mantle listings. Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 11-23-2015 at 06:57 AM. |
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You can make the exact same point that anyone buying a $20,000+ card from a low feedback seller on eBay is a fool, not just when the card being offered is a 52T Mantle. Last edited by Bored5000; 11-23-2015 at 11:47 AM. |
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its really going to have to be the auction route now .. here is t206 wagner...... no one has to start a thread about it being fake......now with the mantle in that price range you no longer have too as well.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Honus-Wagner...4AAOSwT5tWMO-9 maybe should of done a direct deal on this mantle and put funds in escrow waiting to see if card was real... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-TOPPS-3...IAAOSwuTxWALz0 Last edited by 1952boyntoncollector; 11-23-2015 at 12:48 PM. |
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looks like the fake seller got $13,500 on the card and someone gave a negative feedback saying you will never get the card...... I guess no red flag for a centered psa 4 for $13,500.......the buyer of that fake mantle should of put money in escrow and talked to the seller...or better yet not even click the listing..
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Jesse the card is a fake a scam why even bother
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