Absolutely Horrible Experience With MLB.com AUCTIONS

[frikativ54]

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What on earth does this post have to do with MLB.com auctions?

FYI - It is ok to keep personal information to yourself.

It has everything to do with the previous poster's comments. I needn't keep personal information to myself when it illustrates a larger point; there is a societal assumption that overweight people are that way because they choose to be so. This is hardly the case. When it comes to discrimination at MLB ballparks, I think that my personal experiences are relevant. The whole point is this, in case it wasn't clear to you before: It is frustrating to go to an MLB stadium trying to get a lineup card (or any other game-used item) when you are passed up just because of the way you look. This thread is about lineup cards, and my story is fully relevant to this topic.

[sylbry]

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Well, if you scouted using a slightly different criteria, you would find the divorce rate go way down among athletes. Not only that, as a game-used memorabilia collector, you might be happier when that not-so-pretty girl actually enjoys your game-used memorabilia hobby. I always love when people complain about how their significant other can't stand their hobby, when the very same people choose to marry the stereotypical hot model type whose only interest is the latest fashion catalogue. Who's the one who is stupid now?

I don't know if you realize it, but those heavier girls do have feelings. And as someone who is not skinny, I notice when baseball players won't toss a ball up to me because of the way I look. I just had that happen to me this Friday evening. And it really hurts. I watch 90% of the Astros' games, I know baseball inside-and-out, yet I have a medical condition that needs to be treated with medicine that causes obesity. I also have another medical condition, made worse by the first medicine, that causes my face to break out and me to be even heavier. Why can't a true fan like me get equal respect at ballgames, and actually walk away with a souvenir?

What on earth does this post have to do with MLB.com auctions?

FYI - It is ok to keep personal information to yourself.

[frikativ54]

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i was 17 what would you do?if you have a hot girl asking for a baseball of course you are going to give it to her. i'm not stupid

Well, if you scouted using a slightly different criteria, you would find the divorce rate go way down among athletes. Not only that, as a game-used memorabilia collector, you might be happier when that not-so-pretty girl actually enjoys your game-used memorabilia hobby. I always love when people complain about how their significant other can't stand their hobby, when the very same people choose to marry the stereotypical hot model type whose only interest is the latest fashion catalogue. Who's the one who is stupid now?

I don't know if you realize it, but those heavier girls do have feelings. And as someone who is not skinny, I notice when baseball players won't toss a ball up to me because of the way I look. I just had that happen to me this Friday evening. And it really hurts. I watch 90% of the Astros' games, I know baseball inside-and-out, yet I have a medical condition that needs to be treated with medicine that causes obesity. I also have another medical condition, made worse by the first medicine, that causes my face to break out and me to be even heavier. Why can't a true fan like me get equal respect at ballgames, and actually walk away with a souvenir?

[orioles03]

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sorry to go off topic but what do you think the players who are not playing do during games ?they are scouting the stands .one night i made $300 for just getting #'s for visiting players.job did have some perks

[orioles03]

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Well, I am actually overweight from a medicine I have to take, and I am hardly hot. So - no wonder I'm not getting lineup cards after games. I get the impression that if you're not a supermodel or a young kid that people aren't willing to do you any favors at MLB stadiums. It's a shame that many people put looks ahead of love of baseball.

i was 17 what would you do?if you have a hot girl asking for a baseball of course you are going to give it to her. i'm not stupid

[frikativ54]

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when they were left on the bench i would usually give them to a hot girl or a girl i was trying to get there number you dont realize how many times that worked

Well, I am actually overweight from a medicine I have to take, and I am hardly hot. So - no wonder I'm not getting lineup cards after games. I get the impression that if you're not a supermodel or a young kid that people aren't willing to do you any favors at MLB stadiums. It's a shame that many people put looks ahead of love of baseball.

[frikativ54]

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Two words, matted frame.

Won't fix the problem but might be able to cover most of it up.

I just got a frame at my local frame shop, and it does wonders. Now the damage is difficult to see. Thus, I can finally enjoy the lineup card without viewing the fruits of the crappy shipping job. But I am not going to stop complaining about my experience, because I believe that something has to change with MLB.com Auctions.

I ended up calling the Mariners' team shop, and they felt badly about what happened. They are going to get back to me with someone to contact. Hopefully by complaining to a team shop with actual customer service people, I will make some headway. There ought to be policy changes with MLB.com Auctions.

[orioles03]

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i never kept any sorry

[tigerdale]

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no if the coaches did not take them i would usually give them to the ushers who come on the field after the game and he would give them to a kid. i did give some stuff to matt stover one game a bat and ball and he sent me a pair of cleats

do you have any old small ones of the tigers?

[orioles03]

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do most of the small ones exchanged w/ umpires get thrown away? I never see them for sale???

no if the coaches did not take them i would usually give them to the ushers who come on the field after the game and he would give them to a kid. i did give some stuff to matt stover one game a bat and ball and he sent me a pair of cleats

[orioles03]

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when they were left on the bench i would usually give them to a hot girl or a girl i was trying to get there number you dont realize how many times that worked

[tigerdale]

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most line up cards after the game are just thrown around trust me .i have seen visiting coaches at orioles game just rip them off the board and throw them in the bat room some before the game are not in good shape .i had thrown away so many lineup cards when i was bat boy they had foot prints on them many coaches just tape them to a wall. they dont care as long as they do there job they are just another piece of cardboard. i threw away mlb auth line up cards after games

do most of the small ones exchanged w/ umpires get thrown away? I never see them for sale???

[orioles03]

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most line up cards after the game are just thrown around trust me .i have seen visiting coaches at orioles game just rip them off the board and throw them in the bat room some before the game are not in good shape .i had thrown away so many lineup cards when i was bat boy they had foot prints on them many coaches just tape them to a wall. they dont care as long as they do there job they are just another piece of cardboard. i threw away mlb auth line up cards after games

[tigerdale]

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I guess the only saving grace is we are buying game used items, so they're not perfect anyways....many lineups have tears, tape rips, bends from just hanging & being removed from the dugout...we just wish the abuse would come from the game, not the shipping.

[godwulf]

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A couple of years ago, I won the auction for Bob Welch's locker tag from the World Baseball Classic - he was the pitching coach for the Dutch team. It is about 12" x 3", and it was simply tossed into a large manilla envelope, with no attempt at packaging whatsoever aside from that, and of course it arrived with a big crease in it. An email to Customer Service at MLB resulted in exactly nothing.

I guess I should consider myself lucky that they didn't just scrawl my name and address on the back of the tag and put a stamp on it.

The problem with a lot of these things is that they're one of a kind items and we don't want to send them back, even if they're a little more "as is" when we get them than they started out to be. Until such time (and I honestly don't see this happening) as we begin to bite the bullet, as collectors, and start demanding refunds from MLB on items that are clearly damaged, not from being "game-used", but from being "shipper careless", they're going to continue to do things on the cheap and blow off the odd complaint as the whining of a few "condition freaks".