check out this 1/1

There are dozens of those up from the same seller. If you look them over, you'll realize he/she spelled about a third of the player names incorrectly.
 
It's really no worse than someone who lists a #49/49 as a 1/1.

Actually, I prefer the stupid homemade 1/1s to the morons who title spam. They might not be factory-made 1/1s, but at least they are numbered 1/1.

I mean, I saw someone listing a Darko RC BGS 9.5 yesterday and I e-mailed him to be sure that it's graded and he called me a retard for thinking that it was. I don't begrudge someone for turning a few commons into money by cutting them.

I mean, think about it. All it is is someone taking a card and decorating it and reselling it. There are craft fairs out there every weekend in nearly every town in America where people do just that.

Are you going to throw a fit when you go to the airport and see someone selling a purse made out of a license plate? Or an airplane made out of a tin can?

This is just people doing something as a hobby and selling it on eBay. There's nothing wrong with it.
 
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twharry said:
It's really no worse than someone who lists a #49/49 as a 1/1.

Actually, I prefer the stupid homemade 1/1s to the morons who title spam. They might not be factory-made 1/1s, but at least they are numbered 1/1.

I mean, I saw someone listing a Darko RC BGS 9.5 yesterday and I e-mailed him to be sure that it's graded and he called me a retard for thinking that it was. I don't begrudge someone for turning a few commons into money by cutting them.

I mean, think about it. All it is is someone taking a card and decorating it and reselling it. There are craft fairs out there every weekend in nearly every town in America where people do just that.

Are you going to throw a fit when you go to the airport and see someone selling a purse made out of a license plate? Or an airplane made out of a tin can?

This is just people doing something as a hobby and selling it on eBay. There's nothing wrong with it.
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There's a lot wrong with it, these guys selling this crap are preying on the newbs and unsuspecting collectors out there to make a quick buck.

At least this guy attempts to explain that they are not what they actually are, most don't.

Darren
 
dahabsfan said:
There's a lot wrong with it, these guys selling this crap are preying on the newbs and unsuspecting collectors out there to make a quick buck.
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Uh, no, there's nothing wrong with it.

First of all, they are NOT selling them as factory 1/1s, unlike the people cutting patches out of cards and putting in better ones and calling them 1/1s. I have never seen anyone cut a card and claim it was done by the factory.

Second, if they ever did, it wouldn't take any more than two eBay reports before that person was shut down completely.

Three, even if the above weren't true, I have never seen anyone sell one of these cards for anything more than .99 with a $5 BIN. That's not "preying on the newbies," anyone with enough sense to figure out how to register an eBay account is already armed with the intelligence it takes to realize that you cannot buy a 1/1 with a $5 BIN ever, under any circumstances, if it's a factory-made 1/1.

Fourth, lighten up. I have to put up with seeing Pacific garbage sold on eBay. I have to put up with seeing people title spam 1/1 on a card #ed/2000. I have to put up with hundreds of people selling "lots" for $3 each where you get a random assortment of commons with a chance at a Gretzky RC. I have to put up with people selling pack searching secrets. I have to put up with people selling their searched packs. You don't see me posting and whining about it everytime they do it, and you don't see me ranting and raving about how horrible it is that they do it.

That's just the nature of the beast. Go to a card show and you will see people with dice games, or keno-type games where you pay $3 for a roll or spin where you can win fabulous "prizes" such as a Manny Legace parallel #ed/300. Or people selling plaques with players' names and an 8x10 for $50 each.

It's the same thing. Lighten up. There's nothing you can do about it, and those homemade 1/1s are no worse than anything listed above.
 
It just angers me because they completely clog up the 1/1 saved-search I've got on ebay, and there would be no way to modify it to remove these that wouldn't do damage to my quest to track and find other 1/1s.

If you look at the completed auctions, though, you'll see that they are indeed making money on them, which is really sad. I can't wait for the first one to show up in mail-post somewhere so we can grill the n00b for falling for it.
 
hatzosman6 said:
It just angers me because they completely clog up the 1/1 saved-search I've got on ebay, and there would be no way to modify it to remove these that wouldn't do damage to my quest to track and find other 1/1s.

If you look at the completed auctions, though, you'll see that they are indeed making money on them, which is really sad. I can't wait for the first one to show up in mail-post somewhere so we can grill the n00b for falling for it.
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I do 1/1 searches too, and there are probably 25 cards NOT numbered 1/1 for every one of these homemade 1/1s. These homemade cards are not the problem.

And you know, I have a player search for probably 20 different players, and this week was the first time one of them came up for one of "my" players. And you know what? If it had been a pretty card, I might have bought it just for the heck of it.

You know, some people collect players and aren't concerned with who made what card look like that. Some people would love a 1/1 of their favorite player but have no chance of pulling one (I was lucky in that my first 1/1 was of one of my favorite players) and could never afford one from eBay. This gives them a way of getting one without breaking the bank.
 

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