Battlefields, War Eagle, Candiman Et Al

[Batpig]

Originally Posted by ezez420

I do not want to bash on here and leave that to others. That is not why I collect. I state the facts and try to inform people when I can. But I will say I took these pictures with my phone/ipad with normal lighting and showed many imperfections that would have led me not to bid and realized this was a VG to maybe VG/Ex card. A couple of people saw these pics from me but I wanted to wait to see if it was just one card or multiple cards. I got my answer this week.

Yes grading is subjective and people are not experts but we all know what wrinkles, creases, stains, residue, roller marks are, corner nicks are. These should be pointed out.

Battlefields business model of cracking stuff out and brightening the lighting to hide imperfections did not work and led to their demise.

I am bidding on some of the items in Candiman’s auction but no longer can give benefit on raw cards. There are positives of customer service from Daniel and the packing of product. So if he learns from his past mistakes I am sure he will have good auctions.
But seriously get rid of the raw cards.


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Ed, I don't understand why you would want to give business to a person who obviously photoshopped the card you purchased. That along with the pile of other evidence should be more than enough to make it clear they aren't worthy of anyone's business.

[Peter_Spaeth]

[markf31]

Market research is the basis for any successful company, or criminal enterprise.

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Batpig

Ed, I don't understand why you would want to give business to a person who obviously photoshopped the card you purchased. That along with the pile of other evidence should be more than enough to make it clear they aren't worthy of anyone's business.

The shill bidding is what ticked me off.....you CAN NOT tell me they had that many dead beat bidders in their first auction. The Aaron rookie showed up one week later on Ebay. They didn't even give the winner bidder enough time to pay. That is because there was no winning bidder. I was bidding against the house.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Based on Ed's experience they probably did you a favor.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Surprisingly, they chose not to comment?

As they say, "The apple doesn't fall far from the Tree"

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

Surprisingly, they chose not to comment?

As they say, "The apple doesn't fall far from the Tree"

They are busy men.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

They are busy men.

No doubt they are! Just thinking of all the extra work it likely takes to photoshop, then write up all their lying, deceitful listings, makes me wonder how they do it.

[Dewey]

Originally Posted by irv

No doubt they are! Just thinking of all the extra work it likely takes to photoshop, then write up all their lying, deceitful listings, makes me wonder how they do it.

Then find the time to handle refunds and returns from people, who knowing the facts, still bid with them. Unbelievable.

[PiratesWS1979]

Originally Posted by irv

Surprisingly, they chose not to comment?

As they say, "The apple doesn't fall far from the Tree"

I think RockledgeSportsCards put an end to them commenting. Whoops, who would of thought a well respected seller like RockLedge would be reading this forum...and actually called them out.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

Surprisingly, they chose not to comment?

As they say, "The apple doesn't fall far from the Tree"

If it fell at all.

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If it fell at all.

LOL....touche!

[Batpig]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If it fell at all.

Pretty sure it's been Daniel (or whoever it is) all along. Candiman is just the way they're dumping inventory after getting booted off of eBay, and the "give us a chance" routine was to keep as many people bidding as possible. Pretty sure it doesn't matter though as apparently they can screw some people and they'll still come back for more.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Batpig

Pretty sure it's been Daniel (or whoever it is) all along. Candiman is just the way they're dumping inventory after getting booted off of eBay, and the "give us a chance" routine was to keep as many people bidding as possible. Pretty sure it doesn't matter though as apparently they can screw some people and they'll still come back for more.

I agree with most of this. I do not think they are dumping inventory. I would bet most of this is new stuff they bought for this auction. I know some of the graded Mantles are recent eBay purchases.