Babe Ruth Autograph - Is It Real? - Autograph Live2024-03-29T11:25:41Zhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/babe-ruth-autograph-is-it-real?commentId=3524372%3AComment%3A1389911&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI'm not sure that this is a v…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-11-04:3524372:Comment:14072702019-11-04T01:38:17.883ZGratefulphishhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/Gratefulphish
<p>I'm not sure that this is a valid indicator, otherwise, I am an unknown and unintended shill bidder. I only bid once on any given auction, usually through an external automatic sniping program, so you are going to see the same bid/winning percentage in my account as here. What you can look at is whether those winning bids were on items from this same seller. That is far more telling than the single bid as a metric.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure that this is a valid indicator, otherwise, I am an unknown and unintended shill bidder. I only bid once on any given auction, usually through an external automatic sniping program, so you are going to see the same bid/winning percentage in my account as here. What you can look at is whether those winning bids were on items from this same seller. That is far more telling than the single bid as a metric.</p>
<p></p> Sometimes you just get a good…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-11-03:3524372:Comment:14071642019-11-03T20:08:46.071ZITguy1984https://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/datitguy84
<p>Sometimes you just get a good deal. Bought a fully authentic Brady for $400 a few weeks back, should of been $900-$1000. <br/><br/></p>
<p>Price is only one piece of the puzzle. </p>
<p>Sometimes you just get a good deal. Bought a fully authentic Brady for $400 a few weeks back, should of been $900-$1000. <br/><br/></p>
<p>Price is only one piece of the puzzle. </p> All the more reason to simply…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13899112019-09-16T07:58:34.225ZEric Keith Longohttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/Eric947
<p>All the more reason to simply avoid this shady seller and his spurious wares.</p>
<p>All the more reason to simply avoid this shady seller and his spurious wares.</p> Daniel,
The Babe Ruth's biddi…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13897592019-09-16T07:09:23.283ZSteve Cyrkin, Adminhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/SteveCyrkin
<p>Daniel,</p>
<p>The Babe Ruth's bidding history is classic, obvious shill bidding. It's common for shill bidding accounts to have positive feedback for every winning bid. Why? To make the accounts look legit.</p>
<p>Daniel,</p>
<p>The Babe Ruth's bidding history is classic, obvious shill bidding. It's common for shill bidding accounts to have positive feedback for every winning bid. Why? To make the accounts look legit.</p> I'm sorry, but I really don't…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13897552019-09-16T06:50:12.597ZDaniel Alayofhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/DanielAlayof
<p>I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what is the problem with the bidding history of this auction. All the bidders came in the last hours of the auction? That's normal. The bidders who have 181 bids on 181 items and 540 bids on 540 items have tens of thousands of feedbacks. What should I infer from all this data? All this data tells me nothing. </p>
<p>I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what is the problem with the bidding history of this auction. All the bidders came in the last hours of the auction? That's normal. The bidders who have 181 bids on 181 items and 540 bids on 540 items have tens of thousands of feedbacks. What should I infer from all this data? All this data tells me nothing. </p> Amazing how many ruths the se…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13898092019-09-16T06:27:24.688Zmichellehttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/michellemarshall
<p>Amazing how many ruths the seller has sold in the past.</p>
<p>Amazing how many ruths the seller has sold in the past.</p> Looking at the history of the…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13899102019-09-16T06:18:15.888ZSteve Cyrkin, Adminhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/SteveCyrkin
<p>Looking at the history of the bidding and the bidders, what do you think, Daniel?</p>
<p>Looking at the history of the bidding and the bidders, what do you think, Daniel?</p> Do you claim that these bids…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-16:3524372:Comment:13899092019-09-16T05:36:55.283ZDaniel Alayofhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/DanielAlayof
<p>Do you claim that these bids are fabricated? The winning bidder will or will not pay? The seller will or will not receive money? </p>
<p>Do you claim that these bids are fabricated? The winning bidder will or will not pay? The seller will or will not receive money? </p> +1!tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-15:3524372:Comment:13898702019-09-15T21:23:33.864ZEric Keith Longohttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/Eric947
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">+1!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">+1!</span></p> I don't think the Babe Ruth i…tag:live.autographmagazine.com,2019-09-15:3524372:Comment:13897022019-09-15T20:36:15.166ZSteve Cyrkin, Adminhttps://live.autographmagazine.com/profile/SteveCyrkin
<p>I don't think the Babe Ruth is real, but I don't think the bids were legit either.</p>
<p>A screenshot of the bidding history is below, linked to the bidding history page on eBay. In red next to each bidder is how many total bids they placed on how many different items in the last 30 days.</p>
<p>This lot opened on Sept. 8 but no one bid until today, about 2 hours before the auction closed. That bidder placed a bid at the starting price of $750. That was the only bid he placed. His bidding…</p>
<p>I don't think the Babe Ruth is real, but I don't think the bids were legit either.</p>
<p>A screenshot of the bidding history is below, linked to the bidding history page on eBay. In red next to each bidder is how many total bids they placed on how many different items in the last 30 days.</p>
<p>This lot opened on Sept. 8 but no one bid until today, about 2 hours before the auction closed. That bidder placed a bid at the starting price of $750. That was the only bid he placed. His bidding history shows that he has placed 5 bids total in the last 30 days, on 5 different items: 1 bid per item. The lot was then auto-bid by eBay up to $760.</p>
<p>The next bidder bid $780 in the final minutes that was the only bid they placed. They placed 75 total bids in the last 30 days on 49 items. Not as blatant as others but still an oddly low amount of total bids for 49 items. The lot was then auto-bid by eBay up to $790.</p>
<p>The next bidder bid $1,377.77, almost $600 more than the last bid. That was the only bid they placed on the Babe, but that's not surprising. They placed 181 total bids in the last 30 days on 181 items: 1 bid per item.</p>
<p>Notice the next big jump in bids, from $1,453 to $1,801: almost $350 when a $25 increase in bid is all that's required. That bidder has placed 540 bids in the last 30 days on 540 items: 1 bid per item.</p>
<p>This is blatant shill bidding IMO. </p>
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