UNsolicited EM re: Steinbrenner using NET54 addys

[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!

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by 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!

Fred - you are being kind when you say he is throwing numbers around a bit loosely. "White man speak with forked tongue" would be my term for what he is doing.