Memorabilia and the law

[metsbats]

I thought it was interesting he threw "the girl" under the bus as a last response. Personally if this was the real case my first response would have been to go after the person i was selling the card for instead of beating around the bush.

It's a shame that it took Arnold Diaz and a negative publicity spot on Shame On You to expose this case. This dealer has lost alot more by not coming clean initially and now has to deal with the damage of the negative publicity so i think he lost more by not fessing up initially.

David

[Eric]

It doesn't surprise me that the dealer would take that attitude. How many times have you dealt with someone like this or been in that situation.

I have heard the argument "I was selling them for someone else. i don't have the money" and "How do I know it's the same jersey?"

In fact, I have heard both in the past two months!!!

Eric

[allstarsplus]

Luckily for the buyer he had the pictures of the cards in the email from the seller.

If he didn't have those pics, then the famous seller's retort of --- "How do I know these are the same cards I sold him?" may have sunk the case for the buyer.

That is a great lesson to be learned on both sides to keep good photos of the item in case this ever happens. There sometimes is the reverse of this case where the buyer does switch out a real item to a fake and then tries to return it.

The other interesting twist in this case will be if there really is this mystery woman who "consigned" the cards.