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  1. My wife and I have not. My daughter and granddaughter got it back in March. My son-in-law brought it home. He got it from work (hes a cop)..but I found out to day that my dad (hes 75) just tested positive. He has been in a nursing home for close to 10 years (stroke). The good news is that he is vaccinated but my stress level is about a 15 out of 10 right now. I talked to him on the phone and he sounds pretty rough but I also spoke to his nurses and they said that he is doing well. He was on O2 for a bit but he is no longer on it. Still pretty stressed.

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  2. 5 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:

    How did they have an airplane to sell? They couldn’t even afford to pay taxes on the shitty restaurant she ran. There’s a ton of fraudulent crap building up on these dumbasses. Hopefully justice is swift and not merciful.

    AMEN

  3. 19 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    There are actually some people who have done time over stuff like shill bidding, but it’s rare.  When you are shill bidding $100 auctions on eBay nothing will happen, when you fuck over millionaires on 6 figure items, watch your cornhole.  
     

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-owner-mastro-auctions-sentenced-20-months-federal-prison-shill-bidding-scam

    WOW I never heard of this case or the company for that matter. I'm not a high roller. I'm glad they got time. But reading the link you sent I think they should have gotten more!

    Hope to see PWCC go bye bye like they did

  4. 21 hours ago, OU Sucks said:

    Glad they got called out for it.  I just read an article about it and thought PWCC's reply was hilarious:

    LOL, shocked I tell you.  We make our listings private for the privacy of our customers....not to shill bid up the ass without the buyer realizing it!!1

    It would be great if these companies suffered some real legal action over stuff like this and the card trimming.

    I had to read it twice because I couldn't believe what I was reading. The second time I got a good laugh from it. They are such a fucked up company. I never bought anything from them (thank goodness). I hope they NEVER sell 1 more card in our hobby.

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  5. On 7/8/2021 at 12:18 PM, OU Sucks said:

    This may be old news for most of you, but for those of you just getting back into collecting like I am, just know that there's a shit ton of blatant shill bidding happening on eBay.  Here's a cheap card I was following yesterday...I noticed there was a flurry of bids all of a sudden (on a not-very-popular card with few watchers), and looked at the bid history.  These were all actual bids and not automatic ones:

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    Notice how the shill bidder/seller kept inching up the price by a dollar until they hit the other bidder's max, then retracted the over-bid that had them winning their own card.  Even more damning is looking at that bidder's stats:

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    2,654 bids in 30 days, 99% of which are only for one seller (himself).  Then a whopping 200 bid retractions in a month.  The nail in the coffin is only having 74 lifetime feedback for that many bids over the course of just a month.  And eBay doesn't do a single thing about it.  Remembering how sleazy some of these people are definitely puts a damper on me getting back into the hobby.  Virtually every card I've been watching from various sellers has the same shady stuff going on.

    PWCC just got kicked off of Ebay because they were caught doing this. They had thousands of auctions taking off and can no longer sell. I'm glad. Companies like this are killing our hobby. This isn't the first time that PWCC has been caught cheating. There are other companies on Ebay that we all know do this. Lets hope this ends all of the bullshit for good. 

  6. On 7/15/2021 at 12:50 PM, OU Sucks said:

    Wow, what the hell is wrong with these people?  I also just won an auction for an RPA for a good price (small seller, didn't see any evidence of shill bidding), and the seller probably thought it was too good of a price because he quickly cancelled my order after I immediately paid, citing "item damaged or not in stock".  So the card you took a photo of last week, which was inside a One-Touch, suddenly got lost or damaged.  Surrrreeee buddy.

    Since the pandemic started last year I can not tell you how many times that has happened to me. I have gotten to the point that if I really want the card and there is a "buy it now" option I just pay that. There are so many fucking sleazy people out there and all that they are doing is ruining the hobby for some people.

    Its too bad that my LCS sucks balls and I have to deal with eBay....

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  7. He is the first player EVER to elected to the All Star game as a position player AND a pitcher!!  Ruth wasn't pitching in 1933 when the All Star games started. Pretty fucking amazing feat

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