Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

[eisenreich8]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

They very well may be real. Like any auction house CC takes items on consignment and if people consign a legit item to them they will sell it. They had alot of ads in SCD so people looking to sell stuff probably have seen them and just cosigned stuff to them without knowing their reputation. Noone has said every single item CC sells is questionable or not real they have so many auctions with so many items in them if even 5%- 10% were unquestionably real that would still be alot of legitmate items they have sold. Alot of people, myself included, just do not like to deal with them because of they sell so much that is questionable or worse to make a buck.

Thank you for that legaleagle, I am hitting the "deal" button and not planning to do any more bidding there.

[legaleagle92481]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

I will admit I bought 2 things from them before I was aware so many problems were exposed.

I got a Flutie signed BC mini-helmet (which I have compared to the many Flutie-signed items already in my possession) and it holds up well in comparison.

Also, a 2004 Red Sox team-signed WS ball with 24 auto's, and again, I have bunches of authentic sigs I got myself from these players over the years so I would have a hard time believing the ones on this ball could be bad. There is always room for fraud since I didn't witness the auto's put to leather, but what do you all think the chances are that some or all of these sigs could be faked? The auto's, again, seem dead on. Single-signed would give me pause.

Thanks for any input!

They very well may be real. Like any auction house CC takes items on consignment and if people consign a legit item to them they will sell it. They had alot of ads in SCD so people looking to sell stuff probably have seen them and just cosigned stuff to them without knowing their reputation. Noone has said every single item CC sells is questionable or not real they have so many auctions with so many items in them if even 5%- 10% were unquestionably real that would still be alot of legitmate items they have sold. Alot of people, myself included, just do not like to deal with them because of they sell so much that is questionable or worse to make a buck.

[eisenreich8]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

Thank you for the good advice which I will take to heart, and for clarifying the facts about the other member. I was off base in what I assumed.

And I got it too on the bad sense of humor. I thought I posted a funny, and on second thought, it probably was a bit tasteless. I meant it in a light hearted way, but I don't ever want to appear unfriendly!! Thanks again for the explanations.

Buster

Been there, done that!

[Buster]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

Buster,

The tjm banning was the result of he and another member getting into it to the point they stepped over the line of TOS, so to speak. No sense rehashing the reasons why.

If you play nice and strive for harmony, you will undoubtedly thrive here. Just....be nice.

Opinions are NEVER wrong. They belong to you, and no one has the right to say your opinion is "wrong". Just try to be nice.

Not trying to be an a$$ but things like the "dropping trou" comment are examples of what to avoid doing on this particular forum.

That said, welcome to the GUU Forum!

Thank you for the good advice which I will take to heart, and for clarifying the facts about the other member. I was off base in what I assumed.

And I got it too on the bad sense of humor. I thought I posted a funny, and on second thought, it probably was a bit tasteless. I meant it in a light hearted way, but I don't ever want to appear unfriendly!! Thanks again for the explanations.

Buster

[eisenreich8]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

Buster,

The tjm banning was the result of he and another member getting into it to the point they stepped over the line of TOS, so to speak. No sense rehashing the reasons why.

If you play nice and strive for harmony, you will undoubtedly thrive here. Just....be nice.

Opinions are NEVER wrong. They belong to you, and no one has the right to say your opinion is "wrong". Just try to be nice.

Not trying to be an a$$ but things like the "dropping trou" comment are examples of what to avoid doing on this particular forum.

That said, welcome to the GUU Forum!

[Fnazxc0114]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

after reading operation bullpen and the amount of stuff they put onto the market. i wonder how much of it has been sold through coaches?

[Buster]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

I bought an autographed jersey from the a little over three years ago. They seem like a decent operation.

I was just reading through this thread, and noticed "Banned" under this guys name. I thought everyone in the collecting world knew what kind of an outfit Coaches Corner was.

Does this board ban members for posting their opinions if they are off base? Can anyone tell me what happened here? I'm kinda new here, and I don't want to wiped off the forum for posting an opinion, even if I'm wrong.

Buster

[eisenreich8]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

I will admit I bought 2 things from them before I was aware so many problems were exposed.

I got a Flutie signed BC mini-helmet (which I have compared to the many Flutie-signed items already in my possession) and it holds up well in comparison.

Also, a 2004 Red Sox team-signed WS ball with 24 auto's, and again, I have bunches of authentic sigs I got myself from these players over the years so I would have a hard time believing the ones on this ball could be bad. There is always room for fraud since I didn't witness the auto's put to leather, but what do you all think the chances are that some or all of these sigs could be faked? The auto's, again, seem dead on. Single-signed would give me pause.

Thanks for any input!

[sammy]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

Well, the auction ended at 15525.00 (13500 + 2025 BF).

Pretty dang good price for CC, or anywhere else.

The seller will receive 10800.00 and CC will receive 4725.00.

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[sammy]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

Dang, thought it was over last Friday.

Could go higher then.

[CollectGU]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

[quote=sammy;183312]The ball sold for a good price in my opinion, and I seriously doubt it would have done better anywhere else.

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Just to clarify, the auction is not over until this Friday....

Dave

[Capital-Sports]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

I also agree the price seems about right for that ball.

Definitely not a $20k ball.

[sammy]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

The ball sold for a good price in my opinion, and I seriously doubt it would have done better anywhere else.

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"Also if you had a baseball like this and it was totally legit why consign it to Coaches Corner an auction house with a terrible reputation? I am sure Hunt, Hertiage or any other auction house would jump through hoops to get an authentic Babe and Lou baseball into their auction. This point is further beared out by the low winning bid. Coaches Corner like most auction houses charges a 20% fee to the cosignor so this person netted less than eight grand for a ball that if real would easily bring in over 20."

[legaleagle92481]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

How does Coach's Corner get away with selling fake autographs for all of these years? Shouldn't they be shut down, and out of business by now for making money off of forgeries? Or are they still around because no one has done anything about the fact that they are selling fakes?

You could say the same about Ebay. The sad fact is the general public does not care because they are luxury items and people do not feel sorry for people who spend 100s and 1000s on such when they are scrambling to even find work or pay their bills. The government has gone after many fake autograph sellers but there is not enough resources to go after them all and it would be a hard case to prove as Coaches Corner is not forgering the autographs themselves and can just say we relied on our "authenticators" and we cannot be blamed if they turn out to be inept.

[legaleagle92481]

Re: Anyone bought anything from Coaches Corner?

The Slaughter looks decent but was a bad choice. It was added many years later in modern pen and his signature isn't worth that much anyway. Lowers the value because it's out of place.

Why anyone would forge a Slaughter signature would be a mystery during his life the guy was a huge signer. He even signed by mail for free for many years and he did countless shows across the country. His signature will never be in short supply. It took him many, many years to make the Hall of Fame and he clearly falls into the group of hall of famers who one could argue do not belong there. He has no known connection to Babe and Lou besides the fact that they all played for the Yankees although many years apart as Babe and Lou were both dead when Enos was a Yankee and Enos spent most of his career with the Cards rather than Yanks. My thought is and I was hinting at this in my previous post is that the signature was added later to add legitmacy to the item as there is no other purpose for the signature to be there. I have heard of forgers doing this alot with multisigned balls most commonly with 500 home run club balls. Also if you had a baseball like this and it was totally legit why consign it to Coaches Corner an auction house with a terrible reputation? I am sure Hunt, Hertiage or any other auction house would jump through hoops to get an authentic Babe and Lou baseball into their auction. This point is further beared out by the low winning bid. Coaches Corner like most auction houses charges a 20% fee to the cosignor so this person netted less than eight grand for a ball that if real would easily bring in over 20. Just look at some of the prices Babe and Lou stuff has brought in lately. Babe cuts alone go for four or five grand.