T206 Cobb Reprint (On What Used To Be A Great Site...)

[celoknob]

Is it appropriate to contact the winner of the Lajoie card and tell them that they bought a reprint the seller paid only $9.99 for on Dec 27?

[jb217676]

I would and I've contacted scammed winners in the past. All scammed winners I've contacted have either got there money back or are in the process of doing so.

[iggyman]

Okay, I know outing these fake cards gets old. But come-on now, two different FAKE T206 Cobb "red portrait" auctions running at the same time; by different scammers (err...sellers) is way past the line of decency. I will give this seller some "brownie points" for including the FAKE '33 Goudey Ruth card, but at the same time issue a demerit for including the line about "my ex-husbands (is he dead?) cards." That line is really so eBay circa late 1990's.


Yikes! Currently at $700!!!

Look at the fourth picture, that place looks like a mess, and those husky fingers in the third picture remind me of a Seinfeld episode. Double Yikes!

http://cgi.ebay.com/AUTHENTIC-1911-T...mZ160402250625

Lovely Day...

[E93]

Question #1: Why do all ebay scammers have no lower case function on their computers?

Question #2: Why did they stop paying attention to grammar lessons in the third grade?

Just wondering...
JimB

[iggyman]

Originally Posted by E93

Question #1: Why do all ebay scammers have no lower case function on their computers?
Just wondering...
JimB

Jim, I googled your first question and here is what I was told. Apparently, in the old times when printers set font by hand a letter at a time, they placed the case holding the most frequent forms of the letters on a lower shelf for convenience. They called this box the "lower case" or "uncapitalized". Capital letters were placed higher in a different box called the "upper case" or "capitalized." With the advent of the Al Gore internet, which gave rise to the dictionary.com website. Scammers soon realized that "uncapitalized" was not a word. Thus, their "code of ethics" bylaws does not allow them to use uncapitalized letters. They have their standards. Hope that helps!

Lovely Day...

[MikeS]

As for Ebay seller...bradentonfordgirl ( 1 )...who has the Ruth & Cobb up for sale...all I can say is the smartest one in that divorce was her EX. He probably got the Dodge Omni and she got a hypothetical $5K in reprints.

[MikeS]

This is the perfect example of why bidders need to put forth the effort to do five seconds of research. Bradentonfordgirl has one transaction in history. They bought an item from abandg who has everything listed as private so you can't see a picture of the transaction....but when you click items for sale there are four nice reprints for sale in which he clearly states they are fake. Therefore, it doesn't take someone who isn't even knowledgeable about the hobby to put 2 and 2 together and realize this is a scam. Whomever wins....deserves the letdown.