Eddie Plank ball for 551.00 Gimmie a Break

[GrayGhost]

As we've said on here many times, Coach's commode is a bunch of crooks. As Ive said, check out All american sports collectibles website, w ALL forgeries on it. They may be the Roach's supplier. Or Roach's may be doing their own fakes. Someday, Tom Tresh' videos and all the bitching by us on here and other people in other places, will get the Government to take action. Then we will all drink a toast to Eddie Plank and Cap Anson's memories.

[SteveVerkman]

No question they are terrible but this is one of the few businesses where people think they can get high quality items for 1-5% of the actual value.

I would just love to have a conversation with the winning bidders on some of these items and ask them if the price is maybe just too good to be true or do they think they are super savvy businessmen? Surely if someone is collecting Eddie Plank or Honus Wagner autographs, they have some vague sense of the actual values - especially with the ability to check prices with Google, ebay etc.

No one should really ever bid in their auctions and I just do not get the psychology of these bidders - do they hope there is a steal or do they not care?

Steve Verkman

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

As we've said on here many times, Coach's commode is a bunch of crooks. As Ive said, check out All american sports collectibles website, w ALL forgeries on it. They may be the Roach's supplier. Or Roach's may be doing their own fakes. Someday, Tom Tresh' videos and all the bitching by us on here and other people in other places, will get the Government to take action. Then we will all drink a toast to Eddie Plank and Cap Anson's memories.

Scott - the consensus among people I know is that Coaches does do some of their own stuff and the e mail, that I have mentioned, does contain the names of 3 of their suppliers.
I have also received several e mails asking me privately to name the names, but I won't do it until there is some proof of the allegations.
Maybe the proof will come along in good time.
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[danc]

The unfortunate thing about this business is that a lot of these collectors may not be able to afford $10,000 for a Babe Ruth baseball, but they can get talked into buying one for $800 and all they need to do is make themselves think it's authentic and they have satisfied their goals of obtaining what they believe is a legitimate item. In time, they will find out it's not and they will go into immediate denial as it comes from a "trusted" source and get angry.

But they do have a vague understanding of value Steve, because Coach's tells them the value in the description is some instances. They will say that it sells for $20,000 and the final winning bid will be $600. Happens all the time.

DanC

[GrayGhost]

Thanks Richard for the comments. I also don't blame you for the witholding of names w/out proof. Thats good , legally and actually even morally, because of what I think is a serious issue here with all these forgeries.

[mighty bombjack]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

As we've said on here many times, Coach's commode is a bunch of crooks. As Ive said, check out All american sports collectibles website, w ALL forgeries on it. They may be the Roach's supplier. Or Roach's may be doing their own fakes. Someday, Tom Tresh' videos and all the bitching by us on here and other people in other places, will get the Government to take action. Then we will all drink a toast to Eddie Plank and Cap Anson's memories.

Oh man, I've long known about the crap on coach's corner, but the site you've mentioned here takes the cake for me. They are selling auro'd balls of Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, John Clarkson, Candy Cummings, Rube Foster, Josh Gibson, Miller Huggins, Tim Keefe, King Kelly, Charles Radbourne, John Ward, and Mickey Welch?

That's a ridiculous joke of a site.

[danc]

..and next month they will have the same stuff. And multiply what you saw by 21 years.

DanC

[GrayGhost]

Seems AA sports collectibles has got some more great stuff in!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.aasportscollectibles.com/wardjball.htm

Not only is this a SIGNED JOHN WARD BALL, its on a LEMON PEEL TOO. Coach's Commode is likely jealous

[perezfan]

That signed Lemon Peel might be the funniest offering I've seen yet. Seriously, who would be fooled by that?

I don't know why they even bothered signing the thing... an authentic Lemon Peel in that condition would command a couple thousand on its own (unsigned). Why not just pawn that reproduction ball off as being old, make a couple thousand, and forget the whole forgery part of it?

These guys are woking way too hard for their money!

[JimH5]

Jeff Figler posts to a website and may also contribute to the St. Louis Post Dispatch who has complimentary things to say about Coach's Corner.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/spo...6?OpenDocument

There are a number of other online links to Mr. Figler, who appears to be a man of means, but if his collection is made up of CC purchases, then he has gotten a number of remarkable deals.

[Vintagedegu]

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