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Joe DiMaggio - Real or Fake?

Looks good to me.

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Permalink Reply by Null on March 22, 2014 at 7:50pm

$100 would be a great deal. No question authentic IMHO.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 22, 2014 at 7:54pm

I bought it the second you said it was good haha

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Permalink Reply by Dane on March 23, 2014 at 1:55am

But then you said you were going to get it QO'ed after telling the seller you'd buy it. That's my main concern with this transaction. You didn't get a great deal, but a good deal. However, you then made it sound like you were looking for a way to back out of the deal due to the QO. If you get the item authenticated by PSA and it fails, maybe you'd have a gripe, but if it doesn't pass a QO, I'm not so sure you'd be in the right to back out of the deal.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on March 23, 2014 at 7:25pm

Some sellers, such as myself, are VERY open to providing a money back guarantee at the slightest hint of hesitance from a buyer. If a buyer shows me an item that doesn't pass a QO, I'd happily refund their money on that basis.

Seems this seller stands behind all his items 100% which I really respect as well.

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Permalink Reply by Dane on March 25, 2014 at 5:15am

I'm not saying that the seller isn't going to allow you to back out. Honestly, dealing online, I'd rather allow someone to back out on a deal with a QO than to ship it out and have problems, then have to refund the money to get it back. My point was more that if you doubt an item, get the QO first, then put in an offer. It just seems a bit more ethical to do it that way, since the seller might be losing out on other offers while they wait for you to decide whether you're really buying it or not.

Also, FWIW, on non authenticated items, I offer 100% money back if the item fails to authenticate. Why? My logic is that I'm saving on whatever would have been spent to authenticate the item. In essence, I'm getting the authentication for the price of shipping the item to the buyer. Honestly, I don't think that's really a guarantee. I view a guarantee as something I'd probably never do unless I was operating a business. A 100% no questions asked guarantee would encompass offering to pay for return shipping on an item for something as senseless as buyer's remorse. While a business would probably be able to absorb such costs, I wouldn't as a hobbyist.

In my actual field of business, I do offer such a guarantee. Essentially, clients have two years to decide whether my data was of value to them. If they decide it isn't/wasn't, I have a check waiting for them at my office with the receptionist. If they can't/won't come by to pick up the check, I mail it out or offer to wire their refund, less wire fees. Again, it's because I believe that the product/data I produce is worth many times what the client paid, and I also value the feedback given from unhappy clients. My first year in the business, I had one unhappy customer, but my second year, I had fifteen. Since then, I've had one refund request in the past five years.

To be sincere, if eBay's and Paypal's fees weren't so high, I would probably be a lot more willing to eat the cost of shipping even for buyer's remorse type situations. However, as it stands, an unhappy customer costs me 114-117% of the actual shipping costs. Again, this is why I'd rather have someone tell me before the item is shipped out that they don't want it. I can always sell it to someone else. However, once I've had to pay eBay and freight costs, I will only refund items that aren't what I sold. To date, I've had one complaint when I sold a camera. I don't think it was my fault, and eBay/Paypal told me to ignore the complaint. The situation was this:

I sold a camera to someone in San Jose. Two months (78 days) later, I get an email saying they received the camera and the lens was cracked and the SLR body was damaged. The individual complaining lived in China and explained that the San Jose address was their friend. I was confused, since the camera had been delivered less than a week after I shipped it out. Apparently, they used a boat to send it to China. Heck, it would have been faster if I send the camera by boat to China, but that's irrelevant. The point was the customer was unhappy over something that likely occurred outside of my portion of the chain of custody (from me to San Jose). I had triple boxed the camera and lens, and even had the body cap and both lens caps included. The camera and lens sold for about 2/3 of what the lens would normally sell for, but I thought it was going to someone who would take care of it and enjoy it. Anyway, after I offered to refund half of what was paid, I was then at 1/3 of the normal value. A month after the refund, I saw the camera and lens up for sale on eBay for full price. No disclosure of any damage, and the camera looked to be in the same condition as I sent it.

Anyway, the point of that long post is that as a seller (who isn't in the specific business of selling autographs), I wouldn't be able to absorb losses like that. That camera incident was the last time that I ever sold camera equipment on eBay, since it taught me that I'd rather just donate the equipment to a school lens pool than go through something so ridiculous again.