Artificially Aged Reprints Terrorize Arizona

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by RobertGT

This is a sad story. That kid just got conned. That's a kid who doesn't know what a fake flip is. That's one more kid who drops out of the hobby. In case you haven't noticed, there aren't too many kids collecting cards these days.

The saddest part was when he said that none of the other kids at school believed he had all these great cards. Can you imagine how much ridicule he's going to get now?

[Vol]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

The saddest part was when he said that none of the other kids at school believed he had all these great cards. Can you imagine how much ridicule he's going to get now?

Was exactly my line of thinking. All of the attention, and it is all going to be a big let down. Everybody likes a feel good story.

[ctownboy]

This is the EXACT reason why guys like rarerookies should NOT be selling reprinted cards. An unknowing person spends a large amount of money (for them) buying cards and think they have a gold mine. Then when they find out they have been taken and can NOT sell the cards for nearly as much as they paid for them (large financial loss for them) they get discouraged and STOP collecting cards.

This not only happens to young people buying cards for themsleves, but for women buying cards for their guys, parents and grand parents buying cards for their children and grand children. When these people get taken enough times or for large sums of money (for them) they get frustrated and LEAVE the hobby/business.

This is why I NEVER buy reprinted cards. I don't feel like wasting my money on a fake when I COULD be saving/spending that money on a REAL card, no matter what the condition. Also, if I did buy a fake (like a T206 Wagner or 1952 Topps Mantle, for example), I would always look at it and be reminded that I didn't have the money for the real thing and might NEVER have it and I do not want to have that staring me in the face every time I look at that card.

David

[RobertGT]

Also, I agree with the original poster. What a terrible, lazy and shoddy reporting job by this TV station. Sadly, this is indicative of most television news reporting these days.

Did the reporters contact a single hobby expert before running an absurd story like this? No, they just report as fact that the boy has a fortune in cards, when in reality he has a bunch of reprints made to look old and popped into cheap, fake holders. It's actually a sad story about an innocent boy who was conned out of $150 by the lowest scum of the Earth.

Do the reporters at this station honestly believe a kid with $150 was able to buy the Top 5 rarest cards in history? Clearly the story doesn't add up at all -and yet there are zero follow-up questions. The reporters were conned just as easily with this story as the young boy was out of his $150. Pathetic.

[iggyman]

The kid mentioned he had three days to get a refund (which sounds like something out of eBay). "If" in fact he purchased the cards on eBay, Kenneth actually has 45 days to return them. Of course, if the cards came from Craiglist, then forget about it.....

Lovely Day...

[Tsaiko]

"business-savvy 7th grader"

"He bought set after set of thousands of cards"

"I spent about $150 on them"

If he didn't set the whole thing up himself, he's out, what, a few cents a card?

Now, for a few cents a card he has fakes to study so when he gets older and gets some real money, he'll have an educated eye. That's an extremely cheap education.

[bcornell]

A favorite line of fraudsters, repeated by this kid: "I brought the card to a shop and they thought it might be real". Is there a shop left on this planet that has anyone qualified to know whether, for example, a D304 Cobb is real?

Now we have a better idea who buys some of the counterfeit dreck on eBay, i.e., gullible 12-year-olds. That guy who started the "aged reprints" thread has earned himself a lifetime of bad karma.

[ChiefBenderForever]

I hear he's already working on an infomercial.

[Vintagedegu]

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[esd10]

so sad that this kid was conned out of that money. thats why you just dont buy anything you dont know but so sad.