1934 All star Japan tour auto ball legit?

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

I would be more concerned with whether or not those are images stolen from an auction house. Very professional looking photos. If seller has other items that are not photographed in a similar way or has other items that are nothing like this one in terms of type or value or if the seller has no other items for sale, I would run away.

If the seller seems to have a good history and sells high value items with professional photography, that is a different story.

The ball itself looks perfectly fine.

Tom C

Thanks for the reply. The seller has a few other balls but they are all low vale contemporary ones, and none of them are photographed like this. Yahoo Auctions is rip off city for autographs so I was a bit suspicious, but interested to know that the autos look legit.

[theshleps]

Sean are you saying there are lots of fakes on japan Yahoo? At times I have been tempted to bid on items tho not this one

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by theshleps

Sean are you saying there are lots of fakes on japan Yahoo? At times I have been tempted to bid on items tho not this one

Yes, Yahoo Auctions Japan is flooded with fakes, way more than Ebay. I would advise extreme caution before bidding on any autographs there.

I wrote a post about the issue on my blog:
http://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspot...h-out-for.html

Basically its almost anything goes as far as Yahoo Auctions is concerned and there is no system for controlling fakes (or other frauds, etc) on the site, so fraudsters flourish on the site (though for regular cards it is a good source).

[Mr. Zipper]

Nice blog! I tweeted out that post.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by seanofjapan

Yes, Yahoo Auctions Japan is flooded with fakes, way more than Ebay. I would advise extreme caution before bidding on any autographs there.

I wrote a post about the issue on my blog:
http://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspot...h-out-for.html

Basically its almost anything goes as far as Yahoo Auctions is concerned and there is no system for controlling fakes (or other frauds, etc) on the site, so fraudsters flourish on the site (though for regular cards it is a good source).

Good post, keep exposing these people.