Sneaky Things

[mintacular]

What are some sneaky things SOME card-dealers do...One that I've noticed is to overestimate the true count of a bulk lot of cards one might be buying, "Well your getting 500 of these '67s for a .25/piece, can't beat that!" Actually you can if you consider the "500" cards is really more like 350-400...

[vintagecpa]

When I was buying bulk lots from the late 50's, my biggest problem with dealers was the type of lots that They referred to as "average VG condition with a few better and a few worse". What you actually got was few VG cards with a whole hell of a lot worse and none better.

[cdn_collector]

Duplication. I once bought a lot of approx 2000 mid-80's Topps commons expecting "some duplication" per the auction description, but figuring it'd give me a good jump on a couple sets. What I ended up with was about 20 different cards, and between 20 and 400 of each card.

Regards,

Richard.

[ls7plus]

See my last post of about 7:00 am on the thread "News from SGC." Human nature is human nature =$$$.

Larry

[Matt]

A few that come to mind are:

• sellers that mess with the scans to try and create a wrong impression of the card - this comes in a few forms - trying to obscure issues by providing bad scans or doctoring the scans to make the cards look sharp when they are not.
• auction houses only giving one of the two pop reports on a card and claiming it is the highest graded by PSA when SGC has graded 4 higher.

[scooter729]

Sellers showing only a scan of the front of the card, when there is an issue with the back.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by cdn_collector

Duplication. I once bought a lot of approx 2000 mid-80's Topps commons expecting "some duplication" per the auction description, but figuring it'd give me a good jump on a couple sets. What I ended up with was about 20 different cards, and between 20 and 400 of each card.

Regards,

Richard.

I had the same thing happen on a lot of '75 Topps that I bought from NESC.