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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Lee Behrens
In the last few months I have won 2 festberg auctions, a T202 lot which was fine, and a T206 45 card lot, here's where the problems start. In the description there was 3 HOFers, 2 two I suspect are reprints, waxy finish. It described 8 EX/EX+, one falls close to that category it was one of two cards pictured, there were 4 cards that I think were suppose to fall into that category that are trimmed. 5 VG/EX, I could find any to fall into that category. I did get the one interesting Tolstoi card that I posted. The lot in no way comes close to the description. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: petecld
Don't take it personally, sounds like you had a typical Festberg experience. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Scott Forrest
...still a value since everyone with sense avoided the auction, but mostly unusable trash. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
He used to be one of the good ones! In the last seven years of his impoverished collecting/selling tactics has caused a bunch of problems ,covered by lies! he needs to go get another occupation.he claims to be the SCD standard creator of grading..yet can't grade or admit a card is altered. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: mike mullins
Lee, |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: warshawlaw
And only once. He auctioned off a set of 1908 Ogdens (British tobacco) boxing cards that I bought. They were atrocious, far below description. When I get his catalogue now, I assume everything in it is at least two full grades below what he advertises. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Charlie
had a T206 no name on front card listed on ebay with no picture a couple of years ago. I was being a little cautious because a lot of his other auctions had pictures. Being a nut for errors, I e-mailed him and he re-assured me that the card was an authentic no name on front card...he was right...only thing was the bottom border was so narrow the name was not visible at all. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: jay behrens
I hope you guys that have had bad dealing with Festberg are leaving negative feedback. When I heavily involved in the hobby during the 80s he had a less than stellar reputation back then. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Anonymous
I must say I'm rather surprised to see all the negative comments about this guy. I used to buy a lot of stuff from him back in the 80's and early 90's. True, his stuff was always overgraded by at least 1 1/2 grades, but after a very short period of time I learned to factor that into my bids. And he always accepted returns and offered refunds cheerfully with no questions asked. I always thought he was one of the nicest guys in the hobby. Back then he was one of the few who offered nice vintage cards at reasonable prices on a consistent basis. I haven't bought anything from him in eight or ten years now and I'm kind of sad to hear how his reputation has fallen. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Lee Behrens
If you read these testimonials you will find his rep has gone downhill thru out the years. |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Julie Vognar
are enough to keep me away. Big globs of this and that. A Scrapps I held in my hand and was VG being offered as nearmint...ugh |
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Festberg Warning
Posted By: Lee Behrens
After 20 days I finally received a reply from Dave Festberg, this is the whole message. |
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