Pujols items

[ChrisCavalier]

Re: Pujols items

is there a way to respond to specific posts instead of a general response to the thread? On the original gameusedforum, it was extremely easy to follow the threads because the responses easily mapped on to their respective posts (because of the placement of the response posts and their indentation). Perhaps I am the only one having trouble following some of these threads ... and if I am, I apologize. Thanks,

Reid

Hello Reid-

I am responding to your question by using a feature that should help in making threads easier to follow. If you use the "Quote" button to reply to a post you will be able to extract the part of the post to which you would like to respond. Thus, even though the thread may already have taken a different turn, you can still reply to a portion of a previous post (or an entire post) and keep it in context.

Please let me know if that answers your question.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cavalier
CEO - Game Used Universe

[apujols04]

Re: Pujols items

apujols04, I think your generalized poormouthing of Rob is out of line and doesn't add anything helpful to this thread.

Rob has used word of mouth to badmouth me. Then when he did it another time to a different audience on gameusedforum.com. Next, Eric the Moderator deleted the entire thread. Rob has his own link on this new game used site. Eric, if you wanted to delete an entire thread about what ACTUALLY happened, I have no problem with you doing so one again. I appreciate you not editing my posts just like you did not edit Rob's post previously. You simply deleted the entire thread. All three of us obviously have concerns of libel and libel accusations. Please feel free to delete this entire thread like you did when Rob posted originally about Pujols stuff. That will put an end to this entire "controversy." There is no reason for anyone to know my own personal experience with Rob. Him and I both know what happened and only we understand what exactly occured in the chain of events. I guess he is lucky to have this many supporters and his own link in this public well respected forum.

[ChrisCavalier]

Re: Pujols items

Re: APUJOLS04

I have found Rob to be the dealer with THE MOST INGERITY IN THE HOBBY.

Eric

BTW, I have to agree with Eric in that I believe Rob Steinmetz is among those individuals with the highest level of integrity in the hobby.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cavalier
CEO - Game Used Universe

[apujols04]

My Response

Whoever put Todd Perry's name in my mouth with assoiciation with hoarding merchandise is out of line. This site has specific instructions to not libel anyone (stating what can be proven to be untrue things)." That is why I only write the truth and the specifically implied truth if you choose to call it that. I typed something along the lines of "I know other Cardinals collector(s) who are not directly connected with the organization. Because of their "connections" there is or was massive hoarding of merchandise by a few specific people. Keep in mind massive is subjective and I usually intend to indirectly imply massive to define as a massive retail value and more than just a few items."

I am sure such a thing happens all over the place. In addition, I have had MULTIPLE and/or heard of MULTIPLE extremely bad experiences with more than one of the people I would call "hoarders" of CARDINALS merchandise not available to hardly anyone else unless it is in a major auction house we all seem to respect. The stuff is pretty sure legit and the real deal game-used of the highest name Cardinals players. I am not bitter about the hoarding directly. At least not even close to how bitter I am about my bad experiences with these multiple people and how they "libel" me with unfair statements after the problems occured. My experiences (invloving "GAME USED" St. Louis Cardinals memorabilia) are with these 2-3 individuals and are with the specific people. TODD PERRY is not one of these 2-3 people and I NEVER said he was. The poster who implied such a thing needs to read closer before posting.

The only thing I will say about Todd Perry is that he has a very good connection with Albert Pujols. Heck, he runs Pujols' foundation. I am the owner of an autographed Albert Pujols jersey which has unique traits and some traits simliar to a Pujols autograph. The jersey was given to a winner of a Nintendo EA Sports baseball game in an advertised promotion. Pujols was pictured in this promotion which stated "the winner of this promotion will win the video game, a game system, a big TV, an autographed Albert Pujols, etc." THE WINNER WAS SUBJECT TO PAY FEDERAL TAXES ON THE FULL RETAIL VALUE OF EACH ITEM. The jersey was even sent to the winner with a letter saying they were subject to pay taxes on the retail value of all items. Included on the list of things the kid winning bidder had to pay taxes on was the Pujols signed jersey. I bought that jersey from the winner so he could use the money to pay all the taxes on the item. After that, multiple authenticators and knowledgable including PSA/DNA and Todd Perry have given the opinion that this is not Pujols signature on the jersey. Thing is, the kid had to pay takes on the jersey (Which has a $1000+ retail value in St. Louis).

Todd Perry refused to look into this jersey and this situation once he saw the scans. Maybe it is none of his business. Mr. Perry did tell me the Pujols autograph on the Nintendo Promotion Jersey for "MVP Baseball" was not authentic and "not Albert's signature." I felt he could maybe do something for me as I was out a lot of money and because Albert's digital image was used as a part of the promotion. Wouldn't Albert want to do the right thing. He would have probable signed another jersey if the first one was fake and he actually heard of what was going on. This thread definitely implies he would be THAT NICE of a guy. I bet Arod and Bonds may want to do the same thing if their auto was forged and used as part of a HUGE promotion. But.....Todd perry doesn't want to bother Mr Pujols with such mino stuff. Instead, he stated Albert is not a part of this situation (for 1 autographed jersey in a Video game magazine). It sucks cause as long as the jersey is not authentic, it appears Nintendo used Albert and caused two people to get unfairly "screwed" by a jersey they advertised as a very big deal. Mr. Perry is probably a great guy and that is why he is in Pujols corner. To go along with that, I feel he was borderline mean to me because of the fact I had even asked him to help me figure out what was going on with my signed, not game used jersey. Nintendo, and Todd Perry were not willing to help me figure out why two people lost money because of the Nintendo and EA Sports MVP baseball PROMOTION.

Todd Perry is not a hoarder (I want this fact to be CLEAR) that I know of. but I would feel perfectly okay asking the athletes I personally know for a little insight on the situation. Especially if I was the person who said the autograph was not genuine. If this paragraph causes me to have permanantly damaged my relationship with Todd Perry in a simlar way I have with Rob Steinmentz and the un-named Cardinals game used memorabilia hoarder, then so be it. I have words being put in my mouth regarding Rob S and Todd Perry. I do not like people attacking me verbally to others for something they helped cause because of what they did. If Todd Perry felt he had to treat me and speak to me in the way chose regarding this jersey, he is either not that close to Pujols where he feels okay to talk with him about anything, or he just isn't that intersted in helping me about something I felt was wrong in the sense of wrong. All he seemed to be worried about was bothering Pujols which I can kind of but not anywhere near completely understand.

I hear in a local retail store how there is a big Pujols collector whom I have met personally has a lot of great Pujols game used stuff due to a close Pujols connection. I have never had a bad experience with this person. Worst thing I have ever heard about him is about him cashing a retail memorabilia stores "postdated" check before he was "supposed" to. Is he a hoarder? Maybe. I have never heard him say he gets his stuff from Todd Perry, nor due I have a clue what Mr. Perry has or has ever had in his possession, or which he has given away, or sold. Point is, I have no problem with this man with a great Pujols collection, AND I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT HE PICKED THE RIGHT PLAYER TO COLLECT. I do not dislike him for hoarding/collecting the right player and he has only been nice to me every time I have talked and dealt with him. This same colector is a good friend of Rob S. They attend cardinals games together in St Louis. He bought my dirty gimey Steve Kline NASTY hat with the DK 57 inscription. What I like about him is that he lets Rob and I's situation be our own, without stepping in and breaking the tie he has/has had with either one of us. He doesn't judge us by a situation he knows NOTHING about.

You could say I am a hoarder of Pujols autographed jerseys and bats. You may even consider my hoarding of Pujols signed items as being massive. I picked the right player to collect as well. I work with autographs because all in all, the industry seems to be way less shady than what I see on this website. But....there are way more Pujols signed jerseys and bats than there are game used Pujols items. In addition, I NEVER specifically called Mr.Perry a hoarder or implied/meant to ever imply he was a hoarder of game-used memeorabilia. Anyone who made that such assumption was 100% completely and fully mistaken.

What I do have a problem with is people who attempt to dupe and or/somehow mislead me. My bad experiences involving game used collectors/sellers are for specific reasons which none of you could understand without hearing both sides of the story. That is why I truly feel only God or "the man" can judge me if you believe in that kind of thing.

Some of you members (I have read a lot on these sites for a long time) rip on athletes selling their own game used and game issued stuff. What do you expect them to do with it? Give all of it to their own friends and/or let it be given away for them? So far it seems that option isn't much better than a player selling or donating all of his or her game used stuff to whom they choose. Especially if the really rare pieces like gloven only end up in certain hands either way. I hope you followed a little all the points I was trying to make since this seems to be an attack me and/or support Rob Steinmentz no matter what type site. Now all intersted parties know exactly where I stand on this specific thread. What Pujols is doing with the Pujols Family Foundation is one of the coolest things happening in St. Louis. Including his charging an arm and a leg for great game used stuff. Albert Pujols is the best baseball player I have ever watched. I hope he becomes the Babe Ruth of my generation.

[sportscentury]

Re: Pujols items

Hello Reid-

I am responding to your question by using a feature that should help in making threads easier to follow. If you use the "Quote" button to reply to a post you will be able to extract the part of the post to which you would like to respond. Thus, even though the thread may already have taken a different turn, you can still reply to a portion of a previous post (or an entire post) and keep it in context.

Please let me know if that answers your question.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cavalier
CEO - Game Used Universe

Chris,

Thanks very much. I hope I am using the quote option correctly in responding to your post. I very much liked the format of the old gameusedforum. I miss it as I think it made for easier-to-read-and-follow threads. This quote option helps, but the indentation format of the old structure was better, I think. This is not a criticism as much as it is my expression of a preference. I thank Eric and you for your site and hope you both had a good holiday.

Reid

[ChrisCavalier]

Re: Pujols items

Chris,

Thanks very much. I hope I am using the quote option correctly in responding to your post. I very much liked the format of the old gameusedforum. I miss it as I think it made for easier-to-read-and-follow threads. This quote option helps, but the indentation format of the old structure was better, I think. This is not a criticism as much as it is my expression of a preference.

Reid

Hello Reid-

Thank you for your feedback. We are hoping that as users get used to the new system they will find the features here to be as user friendly (if not more) than the previous system. Personally, I prefer the new way as I found I sometimes overlooked posts in the old system that were added in the middle of a thread. That is, if I had already read part of a thread and later went back to it, I would immediately go to the latest thread I thought I had read and not look back for any posts that may have been inserted right after a previous post. I was very active in reading threads and didn't want to have to go back and look for new posts that were added in the middle.

As you said, this is probably a preference but we hope the new system will be just as easy to follow once users get used to using the new features.

Sincerely,
Christopher Cavalier