Heritage or Consignor - one is full of crap

[Shoeless Moe]

I remember the seller listing all 4 balls, the next best one was signed I believe by some Cincy Reds, but no Jackson or Cobb or Wagner.

All 4 went for under $200.


I re-sold the one for $1,000.....be interesting to see what this brings....luckily the majority of the story of the ball is true....just the BS at the end which has nothing to do with it peaked my interest.

[ddog5]

Heritage has some other "stories" for other auctions listed. Most likely told by the consignor.

[ctownboy]

Shoeless,

I hope you have some supporting evidence to back up your claims. Because, if you do, I would love to hear what Heritage says and then does about this if you produce the evidence to back up what you are saying.

David

[Shoeless Moe]

I don't have any proof on paper. I just know what happened. I bought it from the Ebay seller in Cambridge, who yes did have three other balls, but he listed all 4 balls. I bought the one that is now in the Heritage auction.

I probably could go back to feedback I left for others, because I always leave feedback, find out who that original Cambridge seller was, then look at his feedback, and I'd think he rec'd feedback for the other 3 balls, or at least a couple.

So that would be my only proof, and if really need be, I could eventually ask the Cambridge seller what else he had, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner balls, quite certain that wasn't the case, cuz we talked back then and he told me what he had. He had no reason not to say if he had those. He said he had a couple he had found and he listed all he found.

[scooter729]

Is the consignor setting the table for a later consignment of the other two balls by trying to link them to this one, as a way to make some fake balls look legit?

[glchen]

I thought there was someplace on the internet (maybe worthpoint.com?) where they store old ebay listings. Maybe the original listing is still there?

[martindl]

Heritage is foolish if it takes consignors word as gospel. If there's no supporting provenance, just judge the item on its merits. No need for a story.

Martin Dalziel

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by glchen

I thought there was someplace on the internet (maybe worthpoint.com?) where they store old ebay listings. Maybe the original listing is still there?

Yes, worthpoint is the only way to go back that far. It doesn't give the seller's ID or ebay item number though, which makes it tougher to search for specific items. If you can find the listing title by going through feedback as Paul suggested, you can see if it's among the archived listings. Even with knowing the title it can still be hit and miss as they apparently don't archive EVERYTHING.