ebay sale supposedly Butterfinger Ruth

[todeen]

These are fakes / reprints. Other sellers try selling them on thicker cardboard and passing them off as real or salesman samples. The salesman samples / store advertisements have big organge BUTTERFINGER printed across them. These samples were printed on thicker cardboard and bring a premium price. However, most of the ones on ebay haven't sold for 5 years because the seller refuses to reduce his prices. Here is an example. You can report it to ebay, but they won't do anything about - which seems to be their status quo.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1934-Butter...UAAOSwLN5Wlt4J

[doug.goodman]

Here is a salesman's sample

[999Tony]

Thanks for replies —Yeah i guess I will go ahead and tell seller needs to list the butterfinger as reprint and if not I will report the butterfinger—I knew that one wasn’t anything close to authentic, but I don’t know enough to report the other cards.. pretty much the only cards I have seen in person are my own.

[999Tony]

I messaged seller --never heard back. I just tried to notify ebay --but they only gave me a dropdown menu to advise "fraudulent." Sent that in, but they might not know what is fraudulent. Anyone know how to send a more detailed message to ebay fraud department?

Ruth is over $100 --with 20 watchers! (2 hours to go) (mostly bids by somebody with 8 feedback, but somebody with over 1000 feedback bid $100!

There are several other Ruths and Mantles listed by same seller in descriptions, more have been added since my original post, they are labeled as "non-PSA." but not as reprints or fakes. Still very low bids, as these seem to be obvious fakes and most people know it.

[999Tony]

At least for some of the cards, now says selling as reprint per ebay rules.

[Arazi4442]

This is all getting out of hand.


With all the money poured into the hobby during the pandemic, it's like chum in the water for people willing to lie, cheat and steal their way for a buck.

[tschock]

For Butterfingers (as with other thinner paper 'cards'), I wouldn't even consider buying a non-Salesman Sample that has more than 1 'rounded corner'. And the single rounded corner would be a fluke (but possible). The paper tears so easily that corners are usually 'chunked' off rather than rounded, which is more likely from thicker cardboard (and true Salesman Samples). And with cardboard items, 4 similarly rounded corners is at least a red flag with me as well.

PS - Hi Tony!