Bogus Mantle: Grand Dads Garage Find!

[yanksfan09]

Are people really this dumb or is the bidding shill/bs?

[GoldenAge50s]

---but both the Mantle & the Ted look pretty good to me.

[ctownboy]

A nice condition, ungraded 1952 Topps Mantle with bids pushing the price over $15,000 and this from a seller who has mostly sold Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Nope, nothing fishy here at all.......

[Leon]

Is the card gone? My link and searches aren't working?

[Tuna82]

Looks like the listing vanished

[Bocabirdman]

Some where there is a ticked-off bidder who doesn't know how lucky he just got.

[bbcard1]

[ctownboy]

Didn't eBay have a rule that 1952 Topps Mantles were one of the cards that had to be graded by a recognized Third Party Grader BEFORE they were allowed to be listed as authentic? That if they were not graded by a recognized TPG then the seller COULD NOT state that the card was authentic?

If so, then WHY did it take eBay soooooo long to remove this listing?

David

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

Didn't eBay have a rule that 1952 Topps Mantles were one of the cards that had to be graded by a recognized Third Party Grader BEFORE they were allowed to be listed as authentic? That if they were not graded by a recognized TPG then the seller COULD NOT state that the card was authentic?

If so, then WHY did it take eBay soooooo long to remove this listing?

David

That card doesn't, and wouldn't have been removed, if someone didn't "Report" it. IT had to be "Reported" for it to be removed. That is what I am told by a reliable source. I haven't gone over all of the ebay rules, myself.

[peterose4hof]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

Didn't eBay have a rule that 1952 Topps Mantles were one of the cards that had to be graded by a recognized Third Party Grader BEFORE they were allowed to be listed as authentic? That if they were not graded by a recognized TPG then the seller COULD NOT state that the card was authentic?

If so, then WHY did it take eBay soooooo long to remove this listing?

David

Yes, there are certain cards that you are supposedly not allowed to sell on Ebay if they haven't been graded by a reputable TPG. That being said there are many listings that don't get removed and end up selling.

FYI, here is the complete list.

(Ebay)
Restricted

You can list the following trading cards only if they've been professionally graded by a reputable grading company:

1909 Cy Young (T206)
1909 Eddie Plank error card (T206)
1909 Honus Wagner (T206)
1909 Ty Cobb (T206)
1933 Babe Ruth (Goudey #53, #80, #144, and #181)
1933 Lou Gehrig (Goudey #92 and #160)
1951 Mickey Mantle (Bowman #253)
1952 Mickey Mantle (Topps #311)
1966-1967 Bobby Orr rookie card (Topps #35)
1979-1980 Wayne Gretzky rookie card (O-Pee-Chee and Topps #18)
1986-1987 Michael Jordan rookie card (Fleer #57)