O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchased...

[yankees.stub]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

When someone says they have such and such pieces, it is natural for us collectors to want to see the pics.

Another possibility could be, people want you to back up what you are saying.
To see if you are for real?
How many collectors do not display their collection?

Now why would you care if someone has something or not just because they said it?

I take everyone at face value. If they said it - they said it. So if you said you have the holy-grail - BABE RUTH bat, then I would be ... wow ... there is your kids college education. You are lucky to have it.


Who am I going to ask for visual verification UNLESS I want to buy them.


I know many collectors who do not display their items. Some of my earlier collectibles are ruined due to display without proper protection. So, if you choose to display your stuff - more power to you. If suddenly you see your autographed slowly fading on your items - who would you blame then? Would you get sympathy from those who saw your item on display?



No.


Another thing, to put anything decent on display - you will have to spend an arm and a leg to have it framed.


And I would never part with my items on some JOE SHMOE to have them frame. Thanks but no thanks!



Dont know if you follow the news lately, even STEINER lost some VERY VERY valuable items from customers who send in to have it signed!


So .... I learned from my own mistakes but I would rather learned from someone else mistakes - cost me nothing to learn!


Just my .03 cent!

[yankees.stub]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

Another thing, I would never consider what I have is rare or scare or ... whatever ...


What I got --- there are thousand of them out there.


If there is less than 100 of them in existence, then I will consider it's rare.

[both-teams-played-hard]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

I think there is a miscommunication. The term "display" was used asking you to post photos on the forum, not "display" meaning to hang on a wall or on a mannequin in your sports room. I actually don't care either way.

[sportscentury]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

"Vic Fanatic," don't worry, I believe you.

Yours truly,

Johnny Sportslover





Oops, I mean...

[camarokids]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

Its all good dude.....

You asked a question.....

I gave you a couple of possibilities as to the answer.....

[frikativ54]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

"Vic Fanatic," don't worry, I believe you.

Yours truly,

Johnny Sportslover





Oops, I mean...

Too funny.

[allstarsplus]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

Sure!

What you are looking for? Which player? or which team if you dont really care about the player?

Vic - I can't believe you haven't emailed me yet. For that matter, when are you going to post up the photos of all the UDA game used jerseys!

[legaleagle92481]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

When someone says they have such and such pieces, it is natural for us collectors to want to see the pics.

Another possibility could be, people want you to back up what you are saying.
To see if you are for real?
How many collectors do not display their collection?

I personally do not display my collection either. I used to but I had alot of baseballs get ruined so I stopped doing it. I keep my bats in a gun safe from Walmart (I do not own guns but the safe is perfect for holding bats and affordable also) My jerseys are in plastic bags in a rubbermaid bin. My autographs are in cases in the boxes the cases came in a closet. I rarely show my collection off because I do not want anyone handling and possibly damaging it as I do not have any relatives or friends who are collectors. However, I do feel that if someone claims to have rare items like YankeeStub mentioned he should post pics so other collectors can see them. And Yankeestub there are defintely under a 100 authentic jerseys out there of the players you mentioned in the collectibles market or private collections they are defintely rare.

[joelsabi]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

And oh, what is up with people stealing other members' picture and posting on other forums and eB.. stuff? I dont know...

Just too funny!

If stealing your photos is a problem you fear, just do as mb23 recently did and put a watermark.

protects your property and does question photo ownership if the userid of the poster and photo does not match as I do right now on this post.

btw, i checked my email with nothing from you yet.

regards,

joel

[chakes89]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

Since pictures have not been provided yet, I would like to refer back to a certain saying that is used on countless other message boards, SCAN OR BAN!

[both-teams-played-hard]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

If stealing your photos is a problem you fear, just do as mb23 recently did and put a watermark.

protects your property and does question photo ownership if the userid of the poster and photo does not match as I do right now on this post.

[joelsabi]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

how did you do that?

[both-teams-played-hard]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

how did you do that?

Photo-shop...that was the 2 minute version...with 5 minutes I could make it seamless. And I'm a photo-shop novice. An expert could do a much better job.
People on blogs and random sites scrap my photos from my website all the time. But I consider watermarks to be clutter. Stealing an image is not the same as stealing the actual item. This is why paypal is awesome. If you do not receive an item or the item is not as described, you get your money back.

[allstarsplus]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

Since pictures have not been provided yet, I would like to refer back to a certain saying that is used on countless other message boards, SCAN OR BAN!

Chris - As Joel and BTPH talk about photoshopping, I think the only way we will see photos of any of Vic Fanatic's game used UDA jerseys and the Yankees HR balls will be when he can PHOTOSHOP a collection.

I am also one of those boxed in basement guys but I can certainly produce photos fairly easily.

I asked a couple of days ago for an email from Vic about what HR balls he has and didn't even get that.

So a guy that registers his name on the Forum as Vic Fanatic which obviously is a ficticious name should be banned until he proves he is real.

I think Vic is enjoying being the center of attention and I join in with others who are growing tired of this type of "member".

[kellsox]

Re: O/T: With all the craziness happening around UPPERDECK, should I be worried about the game used I purchase

I'm still wondering why people bothered to engage him...and are still talking about him. The only reason he kept posting was that people kept replying.