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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 24, 2015 at 8:51pm

I don't think you're missing anything, Carlos.

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Permalink Reply by GraphingMlb on March 24, 2015 at 11:04pm

The basically have a listing aggregate where they will buy the item put there cert on it and sell it to you at their premium...

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Permalink Reply by Carlos on March 25, 2015 at 7:08am

I messaged a guy on eBay who has the same items. He said he has all the items and they also list it on their site for more. If it sells on the site they send him money and a shipping label ..

So they are just choosing items they like online and claiming they have it. Still doesn't explain the lies in the FAQ

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 25, 2015 at 3:34am

Last I looked, they mostly had things on consignment. Things that may be listed other places, too.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C on March 25, 2015 at 9:04am

For a fact, Sports Memorabilia uses a crawler, which hits eBay and sveral other sites, and just draws in the item image and descriptions. They then mark them up utilizing an algorithm. Not rocket science.

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Permalink Reply by Carlos on March 25, 2015 at 9:09am

What's a crawler

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C on March 25, 2015 at 9:20am

Essentially it combs a site and pulls specific info from it. They then capture the info and feed it into their site. They are essentially acting as a middle man and getting a markup of the item sells, then they buy it and voila it arrived to you. They aren't lying per se as its a drop ship and they aren't really buying it but I agree it's deceptive.

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Permalink Reply by Carlos on March 25, 2015 at 9:25am

Well it is lying considering they say they don't buy from the public and all their items come from people directly associated with the sportsperson/team

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