UNsolicited EM re: Steinbrenner using NET54 addys

[Rich Klein]

It's not a problem -- I sent a nice email just suggesting that if they needed immediate sales I could help point them in the right direction or their best bet was to cosign them to an auction house.

From the link to the EBay offering, the biggest issue may be the amount of money they are asking for -- I think that what she is asking for one letter is approximately what the whole grouping of letters would be worth. There are enough Steinbrenner signatures out there that a price of $100-200 per letter makes sense with perhaps a slight uptick for the handwritten and personal part of said letters.

And yes, if anyone is interesting to talking to them directly -- I'll be happy to provide their email address -- but I think these would be better served as action lot (s) in an auction house

Regards
Rich Klein

Who is honored to be included in that email

[GoldenAge50s]

The one I got contained/went to 14 Net54 addys.

[bigtrain]

I agree with Rich. I cannot see anyone paying $2500 for one of those letters. I also doubt that they would have been "put on display" at the Hall of Fame. More likely they would have ended up filed away.

[slidekellyslide]

I got the same email...I wondered how they got my email address.

[GoldenAge50s]

Just for the record, it's obvious for sure that they used our members list as my EM of 14 names is in the exact same order of our members listing.

I realize our EM addys are there because we put them there, it's just the 1st time I've seen them used for a mass solicitation such as this & wanted to make you aware of how they got your name..

[Rich Klein]

Many times the SABR ED, John Zazc, would give people my email address when they had a baseball card question. He knew I would help the people involved and steer them in the right direction.

I did write back to them and again stressed the auction house part. The young man claimed in the EMail that the Yankees offered them $30K --- and I told him that if that was so, the odds are that would be as much as they would get from anyone else ----

As an aside, back in my dealing days, when I managed/owned a store in the 1980's -- many times a person would come in and say they had been offered "x" amount -- when in realty what they said they had been offered, was close to the full 100 percent retail value ----- if not more ----

That sounds like this scenario again

Rich

[RichardSimon]

When I got the e mail, and looked at the ebay link, I told him not at those prices and explained that HOFers are where the money is and since George never will be a HOFer he was asking way too much. Also the letters contained no baseball content of course.
The guy wrote me back and called me a jerk, asking if I wanted them for free and if I wanted free postage too.
Some people, you just can't help.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Many times the SABR ED, John Zazc, would give people my email address when they had a baseball card question. He knew I would help the people involved and steer them in the right direction.

I did write back to them and again stressed the auction house part. The young man claimed in the EMail that the Yankees offered them $30K --- and I told him that if that was so, the odds are that would be as much as they would get from anyone else ----

As an aside, back in my dealing days, when I managed/owned a store in the 1980's -- many times a person would come in and say they had been offered "x" amount -- when in realty what they said they had been offered, was close to the full 100 percent retail value ----- if not more ----

That sounds like this scenario again

Rich

Rich - If I had a dollar for everyone who has said to me "I have been offered $x" and $x was a ridiculous number, then I could retire now.
Rather than respond to people like that I use my common sense and invoke the first Mark Twain quote in my signature.

[GoldenAge50s]

He told someone else I know that the Yankees offered $50K---seems as tho he is throwing numbers around a bit loosely. The realization is he's not going to get anything close to that type of money, even at auction!