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Posted By: brian parker

I know this board is partial to Ebay, but check out the closed vintage bb card auctions of this seller on Yahoo

http://csearch.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/cuser?userID=bbluegrassboy&acc=us

I like how his story changes for each batch of these cards he unearths.

Brian

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Posted By: petecld

Ya Nothing!

I sure these auctions are making "libertyforall" pround. Nice to see Yahoo gets it share of con artists too. Some are done well, others really could use some more work. The Cracker jacks and the Oxford Cobb are obvious fakes.

Seems to me the code phrase for "aged reprints" is "estate sale." I've seen that alot on eBay as well.

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Posted By: TBob

The Cracker Jacks are obvious fakes. The Cobb lot looks better but c'mon, she found them in a used car???? I know whenever I used to go looking for a used car that baseball cards from the early 1900's always were neatly hidden underneath the seat. And for the unwary and menatlly challenged out there- HOW COME THERE IS NEVER A STONE, GIBSON, JONES, SCHAEFFER OR BLANKENSHIP???? Always all Cobbs and Wagners and Mattys. Give me a frigging break.
The last lot is interesting. A&Gs have been reprinted but these at least have the look of authenticity. Nice touch coupling them in a frame with some worthless yet same era clutterall. The surprising thing is the winning bidder is richieratledge whom I have seen bidding on ebay for vintage cards for years and should have a clue as to what is what. Maybe someone needs to email him a link to this board.

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Posted By: brian parker

If it wasn't an estate sale, it was found in an used car, and my favorite, the seller was selling it for a friend who wants to buy a GPS. And there's nothing like grouping together a couple of Ruth cards with a pocket watch. I've noticed that the seller has done better when he comes up with a little story about how he came about the cards. If he were smart he would break out the dead relative storyline...it's a proven winner.

One nice thing about Yahoo (about the only thing) is how easy it is to check a seller's closed auctions. It would be nice if ebay adopted such a quick option. It sure helped me pinpoint the dead gopher in its hole.

Brian

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Posted By: Tom

Btuttle has resurfaced.......think the userid is something like bluegrassboy or something. Bluegrass=Kentucky=Btuttle...........seems like his modus operandi anyway. The watches is a new slant though. The Civil War CDV's and BBC's are right on line for him though. Just waiting for the falsified currency..........

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Posted By: Runscott

- fits his m.o., although these aren't quite as nice as the old "Tuttles". But as pointed out, it's very easy to find a seller's auction history on Yahoo, and it should be intuitively obvious even to the most casual of observers that "bluegrassboy" is repeatedly selling the same forgeries. So I think the bidders are buying these items for re-sell, to rip people off.

At one point, a single seller had something like 6 or 7 '52 Mantles being sold as "unauthenticated", at the same time, on Yahoo - it did not stop people from bidding. I think the going price for a nice forgery was about $70. The same cards are then re-sold on ebay for quite a bit more.