Salesman hyperbole

[frankbmd]

Net54

Where the most knowledgeable and intelligent prewar collectors in the solar system generously share their wisdom and insight, offering nearly factual opinions regarding the authenticity of a panoply of the rarest cards, autographs and memorabilia from the elite sporting worlds of baseball's most regarded batsmen and mound craftsmen, pugilists from the golden age of the sweet science and the proficient pigskin toters and tossers when real men wore leather helmets without face masks.

Where you can freely browse through buy, sell and trade to examine high resolution imagery of sport's antiquities to find an item for either your nascent collection or the holy grail you have been searching decades for, all reasonably priced, often with free shipping whether you live in rural South Dakota or Timbuktu.

Where you can hang out at the water cooler, even if you're not thirsty, and engage in spirited, but friendly, repartee with other members regarding a wide variety of subjects that you or others have chosen to post.

Where you can even rebuff another member's price, opinion or seeming ignorance, provided you do so in a jocular manner and post your full given name.

And where Leon Luckey is always hiding in the shadows, rarely showing his face, thank god, to graciously administer all of the activities honestly described above.

Lifetime memberships are absolutely free of charge, but come without an ironclad guarantee of sustainability.

[ALR-bishop]

Exactly.

[ibuysportsephemera]

No question about it...too much flowery writing makes for a big stink.

What also bothers me is when a member writes a description giving the impression like they are an expert and I know for a fact that they have no clue.

Jeff

[Leon]

I skim the paragraphs looking to see where the card attributes are. I do my best to ignore the rest. It would be nice if an auction company would do it all the same way. Say, put the flowery crap at the top but have the last paragraph (or first would be better) say what I really want to know. A flat screen is not 3d so things can be missed on cards and those I want to know about. I don't need to know Ty Cobb was great or Ruth was Ruthian, anymore. I got it.

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[vintagetoppsguy]

As long as the scans are clear, I don't even read the description.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

As long as the scans are clear, I don't even read the description.

I’d be happy to read the description and learn something. But don’t need a full career retrospective.

[T206Collector]

Well done Frank!

[Orioles1954]

There are times where fluff is requested by the consignor.

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by Leon

I skim the paragraphs looking to see where the card attributes are. I do my best to ignore the rest. It would be nice if an auction company would do it all the same way. Say, put the flowery crap at the top but have the last paragraph (or first would be better) say what I really want to know. A flat screen is not 3d so things can be missed on cards and those I want to know about. I don't need to know Ty Cobb was great or Ruth was Ruthian, anymore. I got it.
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+1. That's exactly what I do. I hate it when they bury information on the product in a paragraph of information about the career of the player; makes it harder to skim through.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Net54

Where the most knowledgeable and intelligent prewar collectors in the solar system generously share their wisdom and insight, offering nearly factual opinions regarding the authenticity of a panoply of the rarest cards, autographs and memorabilia from the elite sporting worlds of baseball's most regarded batsmen and mound craftsmen, pugilists from the golden age of the sweet science and the proficient pigskin toters and tossers when real men wore leather helmets without face masks.

Where you can freely browse through buy, sell and trade to examine high resolution imagery of sport's antiquities to find an item for either your nascent collection or the holy grail you have been searching decades for, all reasonably priced, often with free shipping whether you live in rural South Dakota or Timbuktu.

Where you can hang out at the water cooler, even if you're not thirsty, and engage in spirited, but friendly, repartee with other members regarding a wide variety of subjects that you or others have chosen to post.

Where you can even rebuff another member's price, opinion or seeming ignorance, provided you do so in a jocular manner and post your full given name.

And where Leon Luckey is always hiding in the shadows, rarely showing his face, thank god, to graciously administer all of the activities honestly described above.

Lifetime memberships are absolutely free of charge, but come without an ironclad guarantee of sustainability.

Net54 in a nutshelll. Frank gets fluff. However if he were to stick to the basics on his own self-description it should read: Heavy surface wear and soiling, wrinkling on backside, 90/10 off-center Top to Bottom.

Brian

[sycks22]

I always laugh when there's a write up talking about the career of a well known player. I never knew Ruth hit 714 home runs until now.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Net54 in a nutshelll. Frank gets fluff. However if he were to stick to the basics on his own self-description it should read: Heavy surface wear and soiling, wrinkling on backside, 90/10 off-center Top to Bottom.

Brian

He has a lot of toning too, and is somewhat out of register.