Victor bat

[murphusa]

pre-1905 on this bat.

[slidekellyslide]

Victor started making bats in the 1890s.

[perezfan]

This is the fourth or fifth auction recently that's been "outed" while still active.

I thought we had a rule (perhaps unwritten) that we would not discuss or broadcast items like this until the Auctions' conclusion. Just a courtesy to those who intend to bid (without all the free advertising for the seller).

Perhaps this has been more of a tacit "collector to collector" agreement in the past, and there are no specific rules on Net54 prohibiting this action. But it seems we're seeing a lot more outing of active auctions than ever before.

Leon...
Are there Forum rules advising against this, or have we traditionally kept these things "under the radar" simply out of respect to other prospective bidders?

Either way, thanks for clarifying!

[deebro041]

My apologies if I have broken any rules. I wasn't thinking it would persuade anyone's bidding. I was just trying to gather information about some history of bats. Sorry it won't happen again.
Dan

[murphusa]

That doesn't make sense to me. Bat collectors find the bats, pennant collectors find them. We are not giving anything away here.



If you take that train of thought, you could not show any bad autograph auctions until they are done also.

Should I announce the I am bidding on an item here so no one else would bid against me

[slidekellyslide]

There is no rule against outing auctions..and that's mainly because we don't want to discourage anyone from asking questions on a questionable items. In this case there is no questionable about it...it's an authentic Victor bat..it's probably best to ask questions through PM's or emails on something like this.

With that said..there is very little that slips by anyone on ebay and I'm certain this bat was not going to slip by anyone here that collects vintage bats.

[murphusa]

when you see a lot of 3 pennants like I posted it is more for the WOW than anything else