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Banned In The USA, I Was Banned In The USA
Posted By: warshawlaw
Well, got myself thrown out of the Lipset auctions. Seems I challenged his majesty's grading on a lot that I returned for material errors and he didn't like it (Lot 388: The Johnson, described as ex-mt, had two badly “dinged” corners, two worn corners, and edge damage on the left side. The Marquard, also described as ex-mt, had four worn corners and a mark across the front where something, probably a rubber band, left a stain. The McGraw, described as vg-ex, had four major creases across the top and a bottom corner crease. The Bresnahan, described as ex, had four rounded corners, stains on back and front, and a severe indentation on the front.). |
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Posted By: Scott Forrest
Now I'm stuck with a Bruce Springsteen tune in my head as I'm getting ready to crash. |
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Posted By: petecld
That MUST mean you've never won anything from a David Festberg auction. |
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Posted By: Marc S.
Scott: Thank God that you were only thinking of the Bruce Springsteen song "Born in the USA". Some of us from the younger generation remember a song from about 11 years ago from the rap group "2 Live Crew" where the actual song was "Banned in the USA", sung to the Springsteen tune, with his permission -- a tribute to first amendment rights and a protest against the ban of their porn in rap songs. That is a bad memory of childhood, let me tell you! |
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Posted By: runscott
I remember pulling my first old judge card out of the tobacco pouch and cursing because I didn't get a "hot-looking" actress card - we didn't have Playboy back then... |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
I guess there is a benefit to buying low grade cards. They can't screw up on the grading too bad. |
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Posted By: mike mullins
2 Live Crew is still around, and still "as nasty as they wanna be". I saw them LIVE at spring break 2000 on South Padre Island, TX. They played all of my childhood favorites (none which have titles or lyrics repeatable here). A dream come true, and another item scratched off my life's "to-do" list. ;> |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
It was several auctions ago; the card was a T207 Johnson. (I also won something much nicer--an Old Judge Dummy Hoy, perhaps). I called him, and said there was no gloss (the stuff that cracks all over the place on T207s) on the card, and the borders were almots dead white (instead of gray) and I wanted to return it, because i didn't think I'd ever be able to sell it. It was VERY late, maybe 10 days after i got the card, maybe more. I'd had Mark Macrae look at it, and he agreed I'd never get rid of the thing--it seemed to have been soaked in the bathtub. Lew growled, and said he'd ssen lots of cards (T207) like that, but if I really didn't want it, I could send it back. I've bid in all of his auctions since. |
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Posted By: leon
I won the Uncle Jack lot in Lew's auction recently. It stated everywhere that there were 11 cards plus the coupon. I only ever read 10 cards but did not question it. I WAS counting on 11 cards though as I went through the bidding. When I got them there were 10. I called and asked and he said he made a mistake. No offer for a refund of any kind. I did not push the issue. Probably should have.............In my opinion he grades like most dealers. ...best regards all |
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Posted By: vorthian
<< In my opinion he grades like most dealers. >> |
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Posted By: vorthian
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Posted By: leon
he grades like most dealers.....Ya'll don't even want to see what some of the major auction houses have graded my cards before I had them graded. This is not to put down Mastro by any means but I bought a '25 Gerhig Exhibit they said was in NMT-MT and it came back SGC70. As far as I know this is still the highest graded copy. If anyone knows of a higher one I would be interested in knowing of it. While I do not agree with SGC's grade I do believe that most auction houses and dealers sell their cards at 1/2 to 2 grades higher than what they are. I have many, many examples as I am sure most on this board do..........such as Steve's......best regards all... |
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Posted By: Jeff Obermeyer
While I will grant you that some dealers seem to grade higher than others (and I've had similar experiences with Lipset), we all need to remember something - grading is subjective! |
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Posted By: David
I tend to agree with Jeff. Most collectors here and everywhere complain about the innacuracy of the grading services, then, when convenient, use their grades as evidence to prove a personal point. Perhaps all the above pictures prove is that SGC are bad graders. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
I'm not talking about a little overgrading. I have no expectation that everyone will agree on every card and I have some margin for disagreement when I look at a card. What I find objectionable is where a card plainly does not meet any reasonable criteria for the grade stated. I use the f---it standard: if I open the box and say "f--- it", the card goes back. Take the T207 Johnson in this lot as an example. To me and I think most everyone else with any experience in cards, saying that the card is ex-mt requires clean front and back with most of the original gloss intact and rules out creases of any type, corners that are any more than a bit blunted, edge notches from rubber bands and any other real damage to the card. When Lipset says ex-mt, I expect a clean card with four decent corners, clean borders and clean surfaces. What I got was far from it. Had I sent the card to SGC, I would have expected to get back a vg-ex at best, which is a long way from ex-mt. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
After my experience with John Billingsley, I emailed the link, and he read the forum. Every thing was set right with me and John. John had many nice things to say about the people on the forum he has dealt with in the past. This gave me confidence in the people that frequent the forum. |
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Posted By: David
Michael, I didn't say that SGC was a bad grader. I've owned perhaps two SGC graded cards in my life (Topps Tiffany cards to boot!), and they both seemed to be graded accurately. I was not commenting on the quality of the grading companies, but on the hypocritical uses of them as evidence. Many of the same people who complain that SGC grades way too hard (inacurately), will later turn around and use an SGC grade to prove that some auction house grades too liberally (though maybe the auction house does grade too liberally). The point being that one can't have it both ways. For the record, I've bought from MastroNet many times, and sometimes I think they've overgraded stuff and sometimes I think they've undergraded-- this only being my personal opinion on the items I've bought, and overall I've been satisfied. |
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Posted By: MW
I believe that the title of my post located above should read, "That's a ridiculous conclusion" because that's exactly what it is. |
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Posted By: Elliot
The way it is, IS the way you wrote it. I only changed the "from" posting to reflect your subsequent post, and avoid confusion. BTW, I think your use of the word odd is better than ridiculous. |
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Posted By: David
Michael, perhaps you should read, rather than read into, what others write. |
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Posted By: MW
David -- |
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Posted By: MW
Elliot, |
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Posted By: David
It's just like the old times on fullcount. |
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Posted By: MW
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Posted By: David
Michael, just to repeat, so perhaps you can undersand: I never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever said that SGC was a bad grader. I repeat once more: I did not say that SGC was a bad grader. Once more: I did not say that SGC was a bad grader. My original post was not a comment on the 'goodness' or 'badness' of SGC's grading. My post was a comment on a different subject, that you apparently aren't able to indentify and/or comprehend. Frankly, I don't know if your specific intent is to start fights, or you're simply that stupid ... For your benefit, I repeat once more, my original post had nothing to do with the quality of SGC's grading. |
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Posted By: Elliot
David has clarified his original post---MW it should be to your satisfaction. Additional posts carrying on this train of thought will be deleted. |
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Posted By: MW
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Posted By: runscott
I returned a card to John, but not for trimming - very friendly communicator and no problem whatsoever. Hate to touch this subject but Yes, I would have described the e94's differently;however, good service will usually rectify these situations. |
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Posted By: MW
David -- |
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Posted By: MW
I meant to type "MW" not "David" |
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Posted By: leon
Hey Lee, I could not have said it better. regards.... |
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Posted By: Plastic Dog
I have to say that I was extremely happy with 2 Mayos that I bought in Lipset's last auction (Robinson and Shindle) - they looked even better in person than they did in the catalogue. He was also generous with his time period for payment. First time I've bought from his auctions, and I was very pleased. Don Betz (VCBC editor) and I scrutinized the cards at length - both had great borders, clean backs, never retouched. |
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