Babe Ruth Signed Baseball Drew Max Video

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Not true, Ken. He was honest. Not only did he say that JSA and PSA rejected it, he went further by stating that in his own opinion it was a forgery.
He shouldn't have been selling it, but, hey, one can't describe that ball more honestly than he did.

Are you being serious? There is never a good excuse for selling a fake.

[Big Dave]

People sell fakes all the time.

Secretarial, autopen, traced over, batboy, etc.

As long as it is disclosed, I don't have a problem with it.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by johnmh71

Are you being serious? There is never a good excuse for selling a fake.

Yes, I'm serious. I didn't try to justify his selling it. What I did was express my--strong--disagreement with the contention that the seller is as sleazy as the--knowingly lying--authenticator.

[johnmh71]

What if the buyer wants to flip it and doesn't provide the same information?

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by johnmh71

What if the buyer wants to flip it and doesn't provide the same information?

Of course that is the customer the seller is hoping for. Why would anyone pay thousands of dollars for a fake unless he thought he could flip it as real and make a profit?

If it was $100 and sold as a replica, one could make the argument it is a legit sale. But thousands?

[RichardSimon]

I was just offered this ball in an e mail apparently from the guy who bought it in the auction.
We have had an interesting e mail exchange .

[earlywynnfan]

You mean somebody bought it off ebay??

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

You mean somebody bought it off ebay??

The first original buyer contacted me, the one from the original news story. The guy who thought it was a $50K ball

[ruth-gehrig]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

I was just offered this ball in an e mail apparently from the guy who bought it in the auction.
We have had an interesting e mail exchange .

I'm sure he was looking for a nice profit right??

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

I'm sure he was looking for a nice profit right??

He did not quote me a price and I rejected the ball immediately and told him what I thought of the ball and of him.
In his e mail subject line to me were the words: "Would you be interested in buying this Babe Ruth ball"
One of the funny lines in his following e mails said: "I thought maybe you could help but was I wrong."
He never asked for my help, all he did was try to sell the ball to me and claim that the interview did not tell his story completely.
I do not, for the life of me, know why he thought I could help or why I would even help him in this instance.
btw - He did mock us all here on 54 when I told him that people are mocking him on an internet forum.