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Thread: MLB authentication # question
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01-11-2010, 01:49 AM #51
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Re: MLB authentication # question
I have absolutely no interest in talking to you off of this site. As far as your promise to the CEO; No problem. Consider out debates over !
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01-11-2010, 01:56 AM #52
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OK, I tried.
I wasn't going to post this here, but I will to prove a point.
The ball in question? I am familiar with it.
It is of my opinion that the wrong MLB authentication number was given to NYCrulesU for a reason. That reason was so that he WOULDN'T be able to look it up on the MLB data base.
Because, if he did, he would see it is not listed in any way, shape, or form as a home run baseball. It's simply a game used baseball from that game.
The correct MLB database number is MR 250617.
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01-11-2010, 02:06 AM #53
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Great catch Steve, thanks. I had the exact same idea and searched several alternate numbers and prefixes on MLB. Each search was unsuccessful. As I said, my search was random. Seems you had a more proven way to come up with the answer, search by date? Please emailme and let me know how you found the number. Thanks again.
Knowledge wins over speculation and assumptions every time. I don't mind living by common sense and gut instinct either, instead of "Hey, buy it if it's cheap. Even if it'a a fake it still was cheap."
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01-11-2010, 02:23 AM #54
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01-11-2010, 11:20 AM #55
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01-11-2010, 11:27 AM #56
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I was just saying it hard to be absolute until you have the item in hand. STLHAMMER even brought up how he's seen pictures altered and placed on the Net. I wasn't saying it isn't possible to do it. Just that I have had issues in my own experience due to low quality pictures.
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01-11-2010, 09:03 PM #57
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Ok, enough is enough. This is my thread that I started looking for information about MLB authentication numbers. I'm asking both of you politely, please take your pissing match elsewhere. It's to the point of ridiculous. To have the nerve to derail someone else's thread like this is amazing.
Getting back to the point. I received a response from MLB. They agreed that it must be an MR prefix as they have never issued an "MA" prefix. I in turn sent another message to the seller. He's yet to reply and I don't expect him to at all. He now knows he's been busted.
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01-12-2010, 08:50 AM #58
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authentication@website.mlb.com Send in your Hologram into that email address. Maybe they can help you. Unfortunately in the early years of the system, there are many holograms that never got entered on items.
Unfortunately i got a few bags of balls that were marked Red Sox/Yankees that MLB never entered too.
I wish you luck!
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01-12-2010, 02:04 PM #59
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Tom - If I can go back to your gamble scenario for some background.
The word "Gamble". Some would say life is a gamble.
I am going to go off on a tangent to talk about gambles and authentication.
In the game used collecting, do we really know with 100% certainty that the $20,000 JO Sports jersey of Mark Sanchez was worn for the full game?
Do we know if the $1,999 MLB Authenticated ball that says it was hit by Jimmy Rollins in the 1st inning of Game 2 of the 2009 World Series really was hit by him even though the authentication says it was?
Mistakes happen and we do the best we can do by doing the homework and research and minimizing the risk of the gamble.
If I am buying the $20,000 Mark Sanchez jersey, I am still going to try to photomatch it and do the best I can do to make sure what I am getting is solid. Players do change jerseys at halftimes of games. If I am spending that type of money, I probably want a signed letter from the player stating he wore that jersey the entire game.
If I am buying a $300 authenticated football from NFL.com I probably will spend no time researching it past looking at the COA.
So for me the dollar amount spent will affect how much time and effort I will put into my own research.
As was pointed out at the beginning of this thread, the authentication sticker is on the ball but there is no history and provenance other than what the seller claims. So is the sellers claims worth spending the money and taking the risk.
There lies the problem, every buyer has their own limit to their risk they will justify in a purchase.
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01-12-2010, 02:12 PM #60
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Do you have a link so we can look at the ball you were describing in this thread?
I see you collect Palmeiro and after I was searching around I found this ball on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/RAFAEL-PALMEIRO-...item3358f2c890