Of course a seller wants to tell bidders exactly what something is, or at least that it's vintage versus new, store model versus gamer. However, if you aren't completely sure and put up enough quality photos, you're giving identification information to the many knowledgeable bidders who will be bidding on bats.
I once told an auction house that if they posted photos of the back stamps to the photos they were auctioning, many of the bidders would tell them what they were and when they were from.
A local Net54 board member was recently auctioning a Pre-War store model bat, and, as non bat experts but not entirely ignorant to the area, we googled for images of the stamps and dated it that way. I'm near certain that, between the two of us, the bat was correctly dated and there were no bidder corrections.
Last edited by drcy; 12-03-2013 at 03:38 PM.
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