another ebay scam

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Posted By: rand

take a look at item 300154543738

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lou-Gehrig-1933-Goudey-160-Very-Nice-100-Authentic_W0QQitemZ300154543738QQihZ020QQcategoryZ 86847QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

guy says its authentic, looks like a lifted scan to me since you can see the holder in the pix, no back pix and only 3 days auction. hope he gets kicked off soon!

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

He revised his listing:

"Some Dork claimed this card lifted not real it is %200 percent authewntic or double money back"

Amazing how a child who can't spell or write gets his hands on vintage HOF's. 200% percent authentic? What a dork!

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Posted By: davidcycleback

What is 200% authentic? Two cards stuck together?

Someone once asked me if I'd offer double the money back if the item was fake. I said I would if he agreed to give me double the money if it was authentic.

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Posted By: Jim VB

To me the telling thing on this kind of auction is that the seller has "0" feedback and both bidders are "0" and "-1" feedbacks.

He's just bidding it up himself hoping that one other real person jumps in.

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Posted By: rand

check out the cancelled bids on his card.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Here's my question: can someone intelligent enough to turn a computer on be so intellectually stupid that he could make the number of typos and grammatical errors in the listing? How could he write "Some Dork claimed this card lifted not real it is %200 percent authewntic or double money back." Has the guy not heard of a period? Semi-colon? The correct placement of a % sign? Is this how idiots write -- just type in all the words they want without any thought of breaking them up into different sentences?

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I don't think many of these scams are well thought out. My theory, from
the way the sales sales are presented, is some of them are drug addicts
looking for meth money

Though many great writers were addicts (Faulkner, Hemmingway, Coleridge
was a laudanum (opium in alcohol) addict), and it didn't effect their punctuation.

If you're ever at the library and pick up a copy of Hubert Selby Jr's
Last Exit to Brooklyn (ranked as a modern literary classic), you'll
see he writes just like some of these eBay sales descriptions. I don't
believe he uses punctuation (a chapter is one sentence) and writes for
long periods in all capital letters. Be duly warned, however, that the
book is extremely disturbing and graphic.