Not sure if this has been posted..Mastro in the Chicago Tribune

[Wesley]

Originally Posted by turtleguy64

Is it not true that Legendary bills consignors for getting their items professionally graded?I would like to know since a friend of mine consigned to their first auction and received a bill for 1,000.00 for getting some of his stuff graded.Anyone out there have the same experience?

I thought that Mastro had a deal with grading companies to have cards graded for $7 each irrespective of tier, but I guess that is not true. Doug Allen told me that the cost of grading a single card was $250, and that was the reason why Mastro could not pay the remaining $200 due to me from my February consignments.

$250 seems like a lot of money to grade one card, but I told Doug if he could show me a copy of the PSA invoice showing the $250 charge, that we could just call it the day. It has been three weeks and I still have not heard anything from Doug.

[Anthony S.]

$250? I think that's the service tier where the return the card via unicorn.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

$250? I think that's the service tier where the return the card via unicorn.

Well played.

[Mark]

$250 is for a card with a declared value of $10,000 plus. I hope you got a good price for the card.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Wesley

I thought that Mastro had a deal with grading companies to have cards graded for $7 each irrespective of tier, but I guess that is not true. Doug Allen told me that the cost of grading a single card was $250, and that was the reason why Mastro could not pay the remaining $200 due to me from my February consignments.

$250 seems like a lot of money to grade one card, but I told Doug if he could show me a copy of the PSA invoice showing the $250 charge, that we could just call it the day. It has been three weeks and I still have not heard anything from Doug.

And does this surprise anyone?

[botn]

Doug may very well be the greatest.

[WarHoundR69]

Now it turns out that they are not paying consignors from the April Legendary Auction. There is a thread about it on the NonSports side.

[PGACPA]

Reminds me of the of a cartoon I saw a while back, I think in The New Yorker:
Two businessmen in suits standing in an office...

Q "Wow, how did you go bankrupt?"
A "A little bit at a time then all at once."

I'm afraid this is not going to end well for the Mastro/Legendary cast of characters.

[Reginald Marsh]

The truth is that if a card is a 5 figure card PSA will charge you 250 to grade the card. Alot of folks try to slide cards by putting a huge card with a common lot but all that does is piss the graders off.

I'm really trying to figure out why people still want to consign and do business with these folks. It is not like they are fetching huge dollars that another auction house cannot.

I did not even bother to introduce myself to the Legendary boys at the National because i could tell they were to cool for school. I stayed at the Marriot and saw them many times in the lobby and my first thought was they remind me of like Winnie the Pooh, very easy to read.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by WarHoundR69

Now it turns out that they are not paying consignors from the April Legendary Auction. There is a thread about it on the NonSports side.

Uh, oh. I guess I should let Dave Forman know that there will be another leak to the Daily News about him any second now...

[Reginald Marsh]

Is it me or does Ron Oser look like a Art Garfunkel stunt double?

[WarHoundR69]

According to the thread on the Net54 Nonsport Forum, the vast majority of the NonSport Cards in the April Auction was consigned by a man suffering from cancer (He has since passed away). His widow was charged 40K in grading fees and so far has only received half the money she was owed.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by botn

Doug may very well be the greatest.

the greatest what?

[botn]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

the greatest what?

Well...the greatest of the 'great' guys, of course.

[turtleguy64]

Hey,all of you posters,does this Legendary Auction /Mastro group not remind you of that docu"The Smartest Guys In The Room?"Of course,that was about Enron.Bizarre.