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Posted By: steve
Hello, I was referred to this board from someone on the collectors universe board. I've run into a bit of a problem. I recently won a lot in the Festberg auction. Big Mistake! Not only are the cards in the set the most overgraded junk I've come across in 20 years in the hobby, the set was missing the 2 key cards that it was supposed to include. I've left numerous messages via the phone and email over the last week, and have received no reply. If you call his #, all you get is a machine. No one from the company has returned any of my messages. At this point, I feel that the lack of any communication means that I am most likely being ripped off. If that is the case, I'm out about $300 (the value of the 2 key cards missing from the set). My question is does anyone have any experience with this auction house? and from a legal standpoint, what are my options to try to get either the missing cards or the cash equivalent. My experience in the past has always been with auction houses like mastro, superior and others, always without a problem. This was my first and most likely last experience with festberg, and it has been a disaster. Thanks for any input anyone may have. |
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Posted By: Mike Williams
Having dealt with Dave on a number of "things"....I would keep calling. I believe when you finally get a pulse on the other end of the phone, you will most likely be told to send back your winning lot and you will receive credit in a future auction. If this is unacceptable to you....push to get a full refund and then move on. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
When I saw a Scrapps advertised as ex-mint, and I'd held the same card in my hand and it was VG-, I decided never again. |
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Posted By: Jay Miller
I would contact SCD. I believe Festberg has a ten year no complaint award from them that he usually displays in his ads. Perhaps they can help by putting some pressure on him. |
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Posted By: TBob
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Posted By: Mike
with his most recent auction. I had won a lot about 2 years ago and was disappointed but since the amount was so reasonable I decided to keep it. |
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Posted By: runscott
I was warned by several board members to stay away from Festberg's auction, but I bid anyway on a lot of 26 '34 Goudey commons. Because of all the bad press, hardly anyone bid on any of the lots, and I got mine for minimum bid. They turned out to be grossly over-graded, and only about five would go in my collection. I sold every single one of them individually and made $3 - what a wonderful success story!!! I did several backwards flips after these successful ebay auctions ended. |
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Posted By: TBob
I don't know what has happened with David or his auctions. I used to really enjoy bidding on his cards and buying cards from him in the early and mid '90's. His cards were always well graded and he was an invaluable source when I was building my first T207 set. I began hearing rumblings from collectors about 4 or 5 years ago and had a bad experience myself around then. Since then I haven't purchased any more cards from him. I don't know what has happened as I found the David from 8-10 years ago to be very friendly and a pleasure to work with but now he doesn't seem like the same guy and I hear reports that his cards are severely overgraded and he doesn't seem to care about his customers like he once did. My last transaction with him was a problem and he failed to respond to any of my emails for a refund on card which had been horribly altered. A real shame... |
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Posted By: John Wojak
Although I haven't won anything from Festberg in about a year, I have won several items from him in the past 5 years and yes, his cards are severely overgraded by about two full grades, but other than that I have not had any problems with communications, etc. I will still bid in his auctions, but either for graded material or, if I bid ungraded material, I adjust downward by two whole grades and then bid accordingly. |
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Posted By: Lee Behrens
Festberg is on my most hated list. I bid on two auctions, that were over graded so badly, plus I received two HOFers that were reprints. It took him over 3 weeks to reply, after it took 3 weeks to get the cards. He asked me if he should fire his grader, I guess I rank pretty high on his list to make personal decisions for him. |
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Posted By: BcD
a month ago! Tried to tell John Spencer I altered a E-106 Cobb he passed off to me as Ex plus............He is impoverished so he is stooping to new levels of lowness. Weight training or no weight training.... |
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Posted By: runscott
...as he gets older |
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