Has anyone risked a "too good to be true" purchase online, and had a positive result?

[packs]

Originally Posted by Case12

Wow!! What year did you get it?

I bought that ball 6 or 8 years ago and sold it to a board member. Best $80 I ever spent. It's also signed by Babe Didrickson and a career minor leaguer on other panels.

[Wite3]

I was contacted by a woman in Santa Barbara about 20ish years ago who emailed saying she found two cards in an old photo album of her father's. She described them but could not take a picture of them (before camera phones). She did not care about money and said they were in very rough shape. She asked for $100. I sent her the money, she sent me a two Mayos, both very rough but recognizable and real. Anson and W. Robinson.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Wite3

I was contacted by a woman in Santa Barbara about 20ish years ago who emailed saying she found two cards in an old photo album of her father's. She described them but could not take a picture of them (before camera phones). She did not care about money and said they were in very rough shape. She asked for $100. I sent her the money, she sent me a two Mayos, both very rough but recognizable and real. Anson and W. Robinson.

What a rip off. Two no name players. !
I guess my small Trucker Boy find from several years ago was too good to be true. But it was true. I know this Arrelanes was from it and bounced back to me after it was sold in my first collection sale. It was a small card, as the seller sold them, so was priced at 50 bucks.

There were these in the find too-

D310 (12) w/weaver fr....overall gd-vg
D311 (61) all different pr-ex
E90-1 (18) w/Jackson (pr-sold), Joss..overall pr-fr
E90-2 (1) Wagner - nice SGC 20....2 moderate creases
E90-3 (2) common and pr-
E101 (9) w/Evers, Jennings pr-fr....major back damage..
E136 Zeenut '11 (113) w/Weaver in fr...others vg'ish
E136 Zeenut '12 (36) gd-vg+/ex
E136 HR Kisses (2) gd
E136 Zeenut '13 (6) all with coupon
E136 Zeenut '14 (23) 6 with coupon 17 without coupon
E137 Zeenut '15 (67) 24 with coupon w/McMullen 43 w/o coup.w/Risberg, Lefty Williams
E137 Zeenut '16 (1) with coupon
E224 Texas Tommy (5) w/Marsans, w/uncatalogued
E-Unc Big Eater (3) w/ horizontal ex, 1 in gd-vg, 1 pr
H-unc Western Playground (40) complete set vg+
T4 Obak- (2) still unidentified but not Weaver.
T206 Old Mill- (23) w/Cobb, Evers, Chance, Willis.pr-fr
T206 Sweet Caporal ?(1) Cobb 350-460 series...pr.
T212-1 Obak (47) nice mix of framed/frameless
T212-2 Obak (116) about 25 different slogans.. pr-ex-mt
T212-3 Obak (131) w/Weaver pr-nrmt/mt
T217 Mono (8) 3 that don't have back damage......pr-gd
T222 Fatima- (7) all common, 1 high number in fr, 2 cut in half, pr....