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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 27, 2014 at 9:12am

this is laughable. not only the "quality" of the signature, but the idea that anyone would have paid that much, even for an authentic Jeter, back in 2004.  

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on December 27, 2014 at 9:18am

Should get your head examined if they paid $525.00 for that piece-of-crap Jeter forgery.

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 27, 2014 at 10:03am

Pathetic forgery

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Permalink Reply by Dom Vito Castiglione on December 27, 2014 at 10:13pm

There is no way anyone paid $525.00 for that crap. He's just pimping it

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Permalink Reply by Mike White on December 31, 2014 at 11:28pm

You pose a lot of questions--what are the answers? What did the seller say when you told them that the item wasn't authentic?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

Have you ever actually been to a benefit with a charity auction--silent or otherwise?

You don't buy the items being auctioned off any more than you buy tote bags for $50 from PBS. You're making a donation, and receiving whatever the item is in exchange.

I've bid on autographs at benefits for family friends going through hard times without researching the authenticity, and they always go for far higher than market value, because that's not the point.

Gift cards usually start at face value and end up going for at least double or triple.

When my friend's dad was dying of cancer & the family had a benefit to help make sure that the wife and kids were well taken care of when he passed, we bought a $10 gift card to the local grocery store in the silent auction for $50--and then gave the gift card to the family as a gift, so they could use it in their time of need.

Heck, if a member of my family needed a benefit to raise money for medical care or something, I could auction off a rotten banana and get money for it, because people wouldn't be buying the banana--they'd be making donations in exchange for it. Wanting the item or caring about it is far from a prerequisite to bidding on it in those situations.

And, yet, here you all are, somehow magically able to insist that these things aren't possible & would never happen.

I have no idea if the autograph is authentic, but I do know that you all need to tone the vitriol.

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