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05-11-2015, 08:50 AM #11
Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
I think is what he was saying was, that when you look up the holo one the MLB site, it says GAME ISSUED, when in reality it was game used.
My helmet (M's 2014) has the same problem. It's game used, but the idiot entering the info on the MLB site had it as "Game Issued".
The first chance at a sale for me, the person didn't buy it because of this.
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05-11-2015, 09:14 AM #12
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
Not necessarily an "idiot," it was probably authenticated in bulk at the end of the season and based on the rules of the MLB program, it would then be authenticated as issued. I know it doesn't make a ton of sense for equipment that shows obvious use, but it is what it is....
Always looking for Noah Syndergaard, Charlie Blackmon, Jordan Pacheco & Kenneth Faried items, thx!
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05-11-2015, 11:13 AM #13
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
I have a few helmets that say game issued even though they are 100% game used. Reason being is if they are not authenticated within a certain amount of time (I want to say its right after the game)they flip to issues as opposed to game used.
I know this is true for the Brewers as they didnt sell much game used anything in early to late 2000's at Miller Park. The stuff sat in a Storage locker and I just picked up a few helmets that I literally ripped open the boxed, picked out who I wanted and then they authenticated them as game issued. Clearly they were used.
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05-11-2015, 11:23 AM #14
Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
I think there easily are a few hundred collectors on here who would disagree with you re: photo matching. Every scenario is different but hypothetically: I'd pick MLB holo'd as "team issued" with a solid photomatch over MLB holo'd as "game worn" with no photomatch . . . A photo displays much better in a frame next to the item that a printout of hologram data.
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05-11-2015, 11:56 AM #15
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
This is true, especially if you can find the exact game the MLB hologram is for, but what I was referring to is a random item that someone claims is photomatched with nothing on the item to show a reference date and any photo could be a match, versus an MLB hologram noting it was game used with a specific date. I'd choose the MLB any day over the photo one, and I really don't need a photo if MLB authenticated it as game used to a specific date.
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05-11-2015, 02:59 PM #16
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
Then theres the other side of the coin with all of this. I've seen items that were MLB certified game used to a certain date and when you try to do a photo match you find out that you can't because the player obviously is not wearing the certified item on the specified date.
I prefer a prefer a solid photo match over any cert.
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05-11-2015, 11:46 PM #17
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05-13-2015, 06:15 AM #18
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
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05-13-2015, 06:17 AM #19
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
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05-18-2015, 09:58 AM #20
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Re: Removing an MLB auth sticker from batting helmet
You are way off-base on this one. Photo evidence is 100% worth its weight in gold. There is no mistaking if and when an item has been used, providing it's a good photo-match. MLB authenticators make mistakes all the time. With photo evidence, the proof is right there.
I am personally not a fan of where authenticators place stickers in most cases. But it's personal preference on if you want it on there if you have the photo-match evidence.