What's new in your collection?

How about an ongoing thread to highlight the new additions to your collection?

Whether it's a through-the-mail freebie or a big buck acquisition... it's all good. Show us what you got!

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Permalink Reply by Chas on October 1, 2022 at 6:40pm

not at all, I appreciate your comments. my experience has been that ebay sides with the buyer as a matter of good business practice. If for some reason that is not the case, I have karma on my side and that seller must need that $ more than I do

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 1, 2022 at 6:45pm

Those are not the norm. Of course it is done on such a scale. But the quality is usually very poor. This thread and the sellers other junk are just 1 example in an avalanche. However, I have made way more than my fair share buying raw on eBay. There is a certain thrill to buying a signed limited Bowie 2010 CD for $79 in broad daylight and making 10 times or more on your expenditure but this is certainly not for everyone. It was authenticated by me, Andy and Mark G. I have yet to see a really good Bowie forgery that can't be dissasembled by one or all three of us. 

Permalink Reply by BGK on October 1, 2022 at 6:58pm

I agree that it is indeed possible to buy non-certified on ebay and be very successful.  Again, I posted a discussion on this topic not so long ago.  And yes, most of the forgeries on ebay are laughable.  But saying "most of the forgeries" leaves a goodly number that are not laughable.  

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 1, 2022 at 7:02pm

I have yet to see a Gleason forgery that is NOT laughable. Forgers can't even get the date styles correctly. Look at the idiotic Gleason forgeries PSA had up on the Facts page until recently...easily tracked out of Cummings, Georgia.

Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on October 2, 2022 at 1:15am

Fanatics grading launched earlier this year -- part of an apparent push to get more into the trading card space and go up against PSA. FWIW, I don't see the appeal in their grading slabs. The space is already polluted enough with a bunch of fly-by-night grading companies that popped up during the pandemic.

Permalink Reply by Prince Shawn on October 1, 2022 at 7:05pm

I tend to keep my Ebay purchased autographs to authenticated trading cards like Leaf Pop Century or Panini Americana etc. I'm actually surprised there isn't a forum for trading cards like these here. I actually think they are a better investment than the very mass produced signed cd inserts we have gone crazy over lately. 

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 1, 2022 at 7:28pm

I have seen secretarial tight-cut "Gleasons" in these "authenticated" trading cards.. Beware. Even forged secretarials.

This is an example of the signature (by Sydell Spear) that still gets around. This slab company I've never heard of. It's the sig I want to show.

Permalink Reply by Chas on October 1, 2022 at 7:13pm

I hope I got lucky a couple of times. bought Brian Jones and Ringo uncertified based on Beckett QO's and submitted for encapsulation when received

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 1, 2022 at 8:10pm

Sounds like you did :)

Permalink Reply by Chas on October 1, 2022 at 6:48pm

aren't all the COA's on file on their websites though? I know JSA and BAS are

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 1, 2022 at 6:57pm

Some just don't look or don't know they can. Once they see a certificate from nearly anyone some think is HAS to be real. End of story. :-(

Permalink Reply by Chas on October 1, 2022 at 8:28pm

just received full refund, thanks for all the insight here

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