Slowdown on receiving Post Season items

[Swoboda4]

It's quickly approaching a month that I'm waiting for a post season item, already paid for, to be shipped out. Does anybody else have this experience? I bought a WS game three ball from Steve McRae at The Highland Mint. You think for what I paid for it (or can be argued, stupid enough to have paid that amount) that it would have been delivered by now. MLB says 4-6 weeks, but this is in contrast to items being delivered in 4-5 days during the post-season. I emailed Steve who initially wanted to know if I wanted any more items. I indicated I didn't get the first one yet. He wrote that I'm definitely set for the ball but that MLB is currently at the MLB summit. So EVERYBODY is going to the summit? Everything stops because of the summit (what the heck is a summit anyway?) So things grinds to a halt? Let me guess, the summit is how to increase and make business better and in the process they stop doing business. This was purchased directly from the Highland Mint and not through MLB auctions; so the option for complaint may not exist. So, has anyone else who won, or purchased post season items not received theirs yet?

[metsbats]

Robert

The only item I purchased which shipped from mlb arrived in 1 day but that was weeks ago. I will be at Citi Field tomorrow to pick up the other items I purchased directly from the Mets. They offered to ship but I wanted to make sure the stuff didn't get lost or stolen in transit. If you want I can ask the Mets about your situation while I am there.

I returned a retail item couple of weeks ago to mlb and it took them till yesterday to credit my account. So they have been slow. Btw the summit was two weeks ago the week of the 16th.

David

[Swoboda4]

David thanks. The only thing I could think of is that the ball although MLB property, is physically at Citi Field with similar post season items from that location ( I doubt they got collected, and shipped elsewhere for holding ). So by not going through the Mets (they probably wanted to sell it themselves) when they get around to it, they will send it out (I hope. Would it surprise anyone if I find out it was already sold and The Highland Mint sends its deepest apologies?). Thanks, If you can see if its there the hologram number is JB 044011. What started this is seeing a game three ball just listed on ebay on a pitch by Syndergaard and fouled off by Hozmer (same as mine)-but the 3rd inning instead of 6th.

[carbonrosa]

There's something fishy going on there at highland mint for you not to receive your item from them by now. All items I won from this post season at MLB auctions arrived 3 to 4 days after auction closing. The only thing screwy was ups sending multiple emails stating delivery times but I still got my items pretty quickly.

What I don't get is why use Steve at highland mint as a middle guy to pay higher prices when you can just call MLB and make your own deal? He contacted me last week to sell me a Bryce Harper 2015 All-Star locker name tag 1 of 1 for $2500 and said if interested he'd check to see if it was still available from MLB? If that's the case, why wouldn't I just checked to see if it's still available myself? When Harper won MVP he immediately contacted me saying MLB now wants $3000 and I was like I'll just wait to see what his name tag from this year goes for on MLB auctions when that ends in a couple of days, which I won for a quarter of the price. I received that name tag within three days.

What's going on is that he's trying to make deals with MLB then seeing who out there is willing to pay the price he wants which in turn he waits for MLB to ship the items to him and when he's happy with the profit he can make, then he'll say the items are ready to shipped from him out to you.
Bottom line, tomorrow call MLB's shop directly from there website and ask to speak to who is in charge of selling game used items and find out what the deal is. I've called them before and asked about game used items and their availability and gotten answers in the past.

[Oriolesfan29]

Steve McRae is probably the shadiest person I have ever dealt with in this industry. Very unprofessional in emails if you ever disagree with him. I would follow the lead of the recommendations of the other forum members and follow up with MLB directly. I will say the one and only item I have ever bought through him was a Manny Machado nameplate, which after needing to get framed, only took a few weeks to receive.

[Swoboda4]

The only reason I dealt with Steve is that his price was 700 dollars cheaper than the Mets, for the same ball ( mindful that all Teams and outlets have access to sell the same items from the same inventory sheet).

[metsbats]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331738011294...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


Ok who's bidding on this one.

[dcrules01]

That guy is smoking something if I had $21,500 to spend on Mets items this would not even make the list..

[carbonrosa]

So what happened, did you finally get your ball?
If so, what was his excuse for taking so long?

[Swoboda4]

No, I didn't get the ball, and close to a month later I got a call saying that MLB had sold the ball the day before I paid for it. So yes why did it take a month to figure out that this was the case is really the issue. But I never got a ball from game three. But, in terms of a 2015 helmet from Daniel Murphy, I did recently picked up this helmet that was on ebay at the same time the World Series helmet was for sale. I think I got the better deal.