Today's eBay Idiot

Dearest Sooz,

I apologize in advance for not being able to buy this Jeter card for your birthday. This man wants lots of money that I will never have, and if I ever do have that kind of money I am going to run far, far away. Of course, you will be asked to go as well. With all the money we can buy a small parcel of land and fill it with cardboard boxes in our top secret location and write our blog from the underground.

Signed,
Your best worst friend.

The card that took 26 days to get here

Last season before Lind got hot, his cards were fairly easy to come by and could have been had for cheap in auctions. Once he started tearing the cover off the ball, naturally his cards skyrocketed. Now it seems as though his cards are in limbo and in the hands of some in denial of his current stats.

There are still crazy people listing cards of Lind that think they will get big money. One of my favorites is this guy who is selling this clearly damaged card, a card you can see white borders on for more money than he is worth right now. This bozo here is my favorite, selling a Lind Icons auto for more than what you can get a Cano auto /99 for these days... I miss the old days when people undervalued him.

Once in a blue moon I pick up a card at auction of Lind for a reasonable price/steal, but they are far and few in between. It is usually through a best offer or BIN that I end up with cards. I waited... and waited... and waited some more for one card to come in the mail. I won and paid on June 3rd, and it arrived in my mailbox on June 29th. It cost $5.24 and to me that was a stretch with Curtis Thigpen on it to lower the value. (My value of a card is based more so on how much I like it, I don't buy cards if I don't like them even if they are of a player I collect.... i.e. printing plates)

I love this card more so for the fact that I have been chasing it and making offers on them for quite some time, and it is finally here to hang out with the boys. Despite the sticker autos, they are stealth stickers which is way better than silver foil stickers. These are the kinds of bubble mailers that make me miss Upper Deck.

Ginter is bringing out all the crazies

Either it’s Allen and Ginter or just the madness of what the early baseball card season has brought, it seems everyone is drinking a little bit from of the crazy punch.

People are getting silly or they are trying to make a point, either way, some of you have gone mad!

One of the goofiest auctions on eBay is the 1/1 revolving door. Yeah, you read that right. The revolving door has an auto in this set (I hope you can feel the sarcasm dripping with that sentence). The funny thing is this card actually has a bid (auction link).

There was another auction up last night, but it was taken down almost moments after I looked at it. There was a Stephen Strasburg mini up for $20,000 BIN. The seller was trying to make a point on how crazy everything was getting with Starsburgmania and how out of hand it has all gotten.

Baseball cards this year is making people do some crazy things and, yes, I am talking about the hyped up cards that are going for way too much money.

I know the listings just cost a few cents, but why would anyone want to waste their money this way? It’s not going to change anything. Superman is still going to sell for thousands of dollars (Did you see what the auto redemption is going for?).

Save your pennies.

What the $!%* is going on?

Yeah, so I go to eBay to see if there are any Stephen Strasburg Allen & Ginter minis floating around yet.

So far, I found one (auction link).

What in the world?

I get a the superfractor going for an insane price. I kind of get the his base cards going for a pretty penny, but I am not sure I get where all this is actually going.

His cards are just absolutely ridiculous right now. If this card goes for over a grand, what are his autos from this set going to be worth?

Goodness, you might as well buy a case of this just to grab one or two of these cards. It would pay for the whole case and perhaps even then some.

It's a crazy world out there!

eBay Idiot of the week

Well, this one made me laugh out loud literally. It made me laugh for two reasons, one I have a metal card similar to this but it's a copper/gold looking one of a Topps card and two, who is the hell would pay for this?

This whole free listings thing on eBay is going to provide me with lots of idiots who decide that they are going to list a few real things since the other 100 crappy things were free.

Congrats dude, you are the Idiot of the Week. On the bright side, you can earn $200 in eBay bucks...

Anyone have spare change?

Clearly I need more homework, or something to be studying right now so that I am not rummaging through eBay looking for boneheads and crazy auctions.

I saw this Legendary Cuts and thought someone must have enough change on the floor in their car to buy this, and I am only asking for the Ruth for my finders fee...

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

eBay Idiot of the week

I'm surfing around eBay because I am a millionaire looking for cards (read: broke and sarcastic) of Adam Lind to finish a project, and I come across another one. Another bozo that thinks they have the card that will pay off their car loan, or student loan, or whatever.

Now granted, this Adam Lind 1/1 is a sweet looking card but, seriously dude? You wouldn't get that much if Albert Pujols signed that card. I happen to have the "crappy" version of the same card the that's serial numbered to /199, which I paid like $4.00 for at the time. Looks like I win.

This may become a routine post for us, finding idiots to post for our own amusement.

Can't wait to see what the 1/1 sells for....

EDIT: The same seller is also selling this Adam Lind 1/1, some "fan" is right.

Another day, another eBay idiot

I was looking around on eBay (shocking) and decided to see if there were anymore of those Montero auto cards that we showed from tntnorthnj a while back.

I never even got to look because I saw Jesus Montero Pro Debut and started laughing, and then the tears were streaming down because I was laughing so hard and now I can barely see to type this. (Of course, that is a minor exaggeration.)

Pity this fool, and look at what he has and what is he asking.

Oh man, I am so glad I collect someone cheap.

EDIT: Since I had to edit the broken link, the price has dropped by $1,001.05

Who wants to see a crazy eBay card?

The other night Sooz sent me a link to this 2010 Pro Debut Jesus Montero 1/1 card on eBay, which happens to be listed by everyone's buddy tntnorthnj.

Does anyone think this is a crazy amount for a game used patch like this? I find it a little ridiculous to be honest. I get that it's 1/1, but I just can't see spending that much money on a player that isn't even in the big leagues yet despite all the hype that he comes with. For that much money I could get an Albert Pujols auto card.

If you live near Wal-Mart, RUN THERE

OK, according to the checklist of Heritage cards the homerun chase series will include 15 cards of each Mantle, Maris, and Ruth. However, it appears that some people on eBay think that the Roger Maris ones are this super rare commodity and are trying to capitalize off of it.

There is a completed listing for $60.00, yes I said $60.00 and did not mean $6.00.

If you have these cards, now is definitely the time to list them.

Now drive safely to your local Wal-mart, we don't want to hear you got a speeding ticket like some of us, ahem.

Barry Zito and his revenge

It seems as though Barry Zito doesn't forgive and forget, or even realize that it is ONLY Spring Training. Last season Prince Fielder hit a homerun off of him, and Zito was not a fan of how he was showboating after doing so.

You can read the full article here from the St. Petersburg Times.

If anyone wants to send Zito a card for TTM, I don't suggest using his 2010 Topps Series 1 card... or his 2010 Topps Opening Day card...

Thanks to Pete from Dropped 3rd Strike for sending me the link to the article. Go to his blog, he busted a boatload of 2010 Topps Heritage.

2010 Topps Heritage Super SP

Check out what just hit eBay, serial numbered 4/5 and something many Yankees fans are going to want. Just a matter of how crazy of an offer you are willing to make or just buy it outright....

2010 Topps Heritage Mantle, Maris, and Ruth Pants

The bright side of this purchase, you could make $19.99 in eBay bucks...

Cut Signatures from current players?

There seems to be an eBay seller creating their own "cut signature" cards of players that you can get real autographs on real cards from. I'm not really sure what possessed this person to make this ridiculous looking cards, or who would even want them but I figured you might want to see these. They are marked "1/1", and make no indication of where the signature came from, or whether or not the player actually signed them. The player is not even pictured on the cards.

I happened to find this while doing my usual search for Adam Lind, and then clicked to see what else they were selling and saw that they are making a bunch of them.

What do you think of them?

Prolems with Twitter: The Fakers

I saw this story yesterday and forgot to post it, but St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing Twitter over a fake account. Someone was impersonating LaRussa and, well, he wasn't going to take it anymore.

There are sports stars out there that use Twitter. While most of the time the content isn't very enlightening, it's exciting to their fans to have a way to communicate in a way that never existed before. These fake accounts make the usefulness of Twitter difficult and take away from the bit of credability that it actually has.

La Russa isn't the only one who deals with these types of issues.

Apparently, Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Chase Utley begain tweeting and swore he was Utley. The Real Utley.

One day he tweeted that he was bored at home and headed to the park. Meanwhile, I was sitting in the Phillies dugout watching Utley field ground balls. I contacted the Phillies PR about the account and they have refuted it saying it's not Utley.

Even then, the account swore it was Utley and said the Phillies PR was wrong.

So it begs the question: What the hell is wrong with these people?

Why do people want to pretend to be someone else?