Heritage Auction problem

[Splinte1941]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

According to what was told to me, nobody has any information, it is pure speculation. There is zero information out there to prove anything. It is not about cache in the business, it is that there is no information at all about who the forger is.
People are not scared, they lack facts or proof.

I wasn't referring to you Richard, but someone here knows who this guy is.

Hell, the Cooperstown Forger may actually be one of us...

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Splinte1941

I wasn't referring to you Richard, but someone here knows who this guy is.

Hell, the Cooperstown Forger may actually be one of us...

Knows or speculates?
Two entirely different things.
Knows implies proof and facts.

[travrosty]

Heritage is so full of it. I didn't "harrass" anybody. what a crock. i simply told them they shouldn't be misrepresenting their auctions and lying about authentication on an item when there wasn't any.

When Ivy told me i was naive and didnt know how big auction houses work, i simply went to the top and emailed the head honcho at heritage, and just because it happened to be his daddy, they got their drawers twisted in a bunch and banned me. There was no "harrassment". I simply told the chairman what was going on and I said that where I come from, if you say something that isn't so it's called a lie. And that the sports dept. (I said sports dept. and didn't name names because I didn't want to make it into a personal thing) was telling customers that auction loa's existed when they didn't, and that it was a lie.

That's harrassment? baloney. They got caught doing something they shouldn't so they made sure someone had to pay for it. Why does Ivy always send someone else to speak for him? Can't he get on here himself and say what he wants to say?


I guess going to the top of the company and contacting them as a customer is only for when you have praise and gold stars to hand out? How are they going to get any better as an auction house if they don't hear from dissatisfied customers with concerns and grievances? And their way to handle grievances is to ban people I guess. Well, good for them.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by Splinte1941

I wasn't referring to you Richard, but someone here knows who this guy is.

Hell, the Cooperstown Forger may actually be one of us...

Jake, there are a handful of people, including myself, who have been battling the sellers of forgeries for a very, very long time. There is a time to call someone out by name and a time to be careful. But one thing I can guarantee, is that none of us have ever been scared. The majority of collectors/people, have no idea what people like Richard Simon and myself have gone through to expose the bad guys. This is not meant to pat ourselves on the back, it is simply fact.

So please, do not use the word scared.

[BigJJ]

Originally Posted by Splinte1941

someone here knows who this guy is.

How do we know it's not a highly knowledgeable and crafty 19th century baseball memorabilia woman

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Splinte1941

I wasn't referring to you Richard, but someone here knows who this guy is.

Hell, the Cooperstown Forger may actually be one of us...

Jake. Are you confessing?

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Jake. Are you confessing?

String 'em up .

[Splinte1941]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Jake. Are you confessing?

Dumb question, but who is the consignor of the items attributed to the Cooperstown Forger? They didn't magically appear on the doorstep of Mastro, so why isn't the FBI harassing this individual for information?

[Splinte1941]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Jake. Are you confessing?

[travrosty]

The whole banning someone because of an unnamed cooperstown forger is ridiculous. if allegations is all it took, anyone who knew this guy and that guy and the guy around the corner would be banned. Isn't there someone that works there that has allegations levied against them? Is everyone that knows that guy banned too?

It's just a cover story for the real reason people were banned. Because they had critiqued Heritage and criticized the way they were doing things and now people must pay.

I would love to know the name of the bidder who bid on my item and then didn't pay.

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by travrosty

I would love to know the name of the bidder who bid on my item and then didn't pay.

I think you already do, Travis.

[RichardSimon]

Seems to me that Dan Bretta's assessment of Heritage has been right on.
I have to say that I totally agree with him.
Jonathan Scheier, executive of Heritage, comes on the board and makes a spurious charge which implies that I allegedly work in conjunction with a forger. He knows that is a lie.
If the person who is named as the Cooperstown Forger in another thread is indeed the person that Jonathan is referring to then yes I have been asked for quotes by that person for his blog. Yes, I have been asked to give opinions about autograph items he has questioned. Yes he asks me questions about the autograph business. My name is out there on his blog. It is not a secret. But to imply that I work with him, in the way you do, is ridiculous.
Jonathan, you posted on Net54 in a very clever way, I will give you that. Your use of the word alleged in the slander you used against me, covers your butt and your companies butt, I am pretty sure. But you worded it in a way to embarrass me when you knew that the truth of the matter would not embarrass me. The truth of the matter is out there for everyone to see and nothing is hidden. Your vile implication totally distorts the truth.
But what to expect from a firm with an employee roster such as yours.
Nice work Jonathan, you certainly fit well into the organization that employs you, the organization which has been well described in this thread and others.

[travrosty]

I am in concurrence with Richard, I think it's petty the person actually writing the response from the auction house doesn't man up and come on here directly, but send their little "clever" message through a third party trying to paint with a broad brush. And it stinks, frankly, but it is what I have come to expect.

Are customers and collectors with a real concern just flies to be swatted away? Or howitzered if need be?