..per EBay rules I am selling it as reprint

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Posted By: Frank B

What is this rule that all the scammers refer to?

This guy can't even quote his own feedback properly. His listing claims 100% feedback
even though it is right there on the same page at 97.9%.

http://tinyurl.com/2m4m9w

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Posted By: Steve Murray

This is the moron that Steve F. and I referred to in the other thread. (6 or 7 threads down from here). Seller is a sleaze.

http://tinyurl.com/37ungc

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Posted By: Aaron Patton

...I don't get it

The guy who is "winning" the Plank has been buying (seemingly) good T206s.

Would someone buy a $100 "aged" Plank reprint for use as a filler?

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Posted By: Doug

I still can't believe people bid $100+ on these things time and time again.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

"per EBay rules I am selling it as reprint"

There is no such eBay rule and there never has been one. This 'eBay rule' is fiction made up by scammers.

If you asked eBay, they would say that if you know what it is feel free to sell it, and if you don't know if it is real or reprint don't sell it. There has never been an eBay rule that forces someone to sell a real baseball card a reprint. eBay rules only make you sell reprints as reprints.

You will also see scammers say, "Since this card is ungraded, eBay rules say I must sell it as a reprint." There is no eBay rule preventing the seller, or you or I, from selling ungraded cards as authentic. And, even if this was the rule, it of course would make no sense for a seller who thought he might have an authentic $100,000 baseball card to put it on eBay as a $20 reprint when, for all he knows, it would sell for $100,000 if he got it graded.

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Posted By: Michael Flaherty

eBay rules actually say that if you cannot verify authenticity then you cannot list it.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/authenticity-disclaimers.html>

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Posted By: Paul

You guys have all missed the obvious. Ebay rules require you to sell reprints as reprints. So when a seller says "per ebay rules, I'm selling it as a reprint," that means "this is a reprint so I'm selling it as a reprint."

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Posted By: david Poses

maybe ebay could add a category to the sports cards section called "poorly spelled and/or found at an estate sale or old person's attic."

this would negate the need for a "reprint" category (thus sparing the seller the stigma of "reprint" attached to their listing, as well as the embarrassment of having so many misspelled words in a listing in a category where most listings have correct spellings).

1. people who (a) can't spell and (b) are in possession of a t206 plank, wagner, etc would know exactly where to list their oh-so-valuable card.

2. people who, in the course of routine attic rummaging of the elderly happen upon a t206 wagner, would know exactly where to list their card.

maybe i'm crazy, but this seems like an ideal solution.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

"I still can't believe people bid $100+ on these things time and time again."

Likely the same sophisticates who pay $700 for an Eddie Plank "autographed" ball (see the "Morales" thread).

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Posted By: anthony

i emailed seller and told him to update his listings...that he doesnt have 100% feedback, let alone
100% positive feedback.

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Posted By: Matt

Actually, anthony, all of his positive feedback is positive...

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Posted By: Steve

"IS a Reprint"... No argument here, except the seller has it advertized in the wrong category. ie, A 2000 era laser copy of a T206 is not Pre-1930.

"AS a reprint"... Deceptive and highly effective at snaring gullible preY. This creates false hope and in fact is an authenticity disclaimer and should be reportable through ebaY, -there's a link in that other active thread.

Not to be argumentative, but I can't recall any seller with the item description, IS a reprint and AS a reprint.

Incidentally, beware of the phrase "God Bless" in a descriptions' closing.

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Posted By: Frank B

>>Incidentally, beware of the phrase "God Bless" in a descriptions' closing.

Every time I see that I get the feeling that the seller may have a side job
as the sole benificiary of a dead African Prince who just needs a kind-hearted
American to accept 30 million in cashiers checks. When you buy that Plank or Wagner
you may have to fly to Amsterdam to pick it up.