Got burnt today

[sdkammeyer]

Originally Posted by clutch

Now on every single sports related item, they put: Believed to be Not Authentic, Please Bid At Your Own Risk and Rely On Your Own Inspection and Judgement.

I have placed bids at the same auction before. Only once have I made a purchase. I think they have 2 facilities/locations now so we may or may not be bidding against each other.

Anyways, it's not "local" for me .... it's a 3 hour drive, but a friend of mine bought a new gas furnace from them and asked me if I wanted to ride along with him to pick it up. So I hopped on the website real quick and figured since I'm going there anyways, I might as well win a card auction and see what it's all about. When we went to pick up our items they took us back into their huge warehouse. While they were loading his furnace I opened a couple of the other baseball card boxes and found what I was looking for.

Sold on the same day there was a box that showed a T205 Cobb along with some 1990's inserts, and that threw me off right away. Just a bit too odd. The auction description advertised cards from 1909-1999. That Cobb was a reprint.

So I asked to talk to someone about their listings. After rifling through my cards real quick I was fairly pleased, but now I knew they were selling reprints and not advertising it as such.

I spoke with a "manager" named Linda. When asked "why would you advertise your cards as "Believed to be Not Authentic" instead of "authenticity unknown"?" She replied that it's a legal disclaimer from the company's attorney office that must be put into the auction titles and then acted repulsed that I would ask such a Question. I left it at that.

I haven't purchased anything else from them but I still log in every Thursday to see what they have going on.

If you are close to the facility you have the ability to go in pre-auction and view the lots ..... some of us do not have that luxury and I think it's sick that they are selling reprints and advertising them the way they do.