It is amazing how idiotic some people are, when there is no other reason but to help them and they fight you to the end. I often message sellers telling them about signatures on balls they have missed, misidentified or my favorite is to email people who are listing the stadium souvenir balls as authentic signed balls. It seems most people I email want to fight me over the information I am providing them. I immediately then assume they are purposefully trying to rip others off at that point.
The most recent episode was someone who was selling some Goose Gossage signed balls as Steve Garvey. Not even sure if they were real, as the picture was small, but they definitely looked like or were Gossage, not Garvey. The person was not rude, but wrote back to tell me that a friend or relative got them in person and that they were going to believe that person over me. I could have walked away at that point, but I decided to provide links to both a Gossage signature and a Garvey signature and tossed in that I had only been collecting Steve Garvey items for 35+ years, so what did I know. The comment was somewhat sarcastic, but again I was only trying to help.
In the end, they conceded that the person they trusted appears to have been wrong.
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