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charnick · 02-01-2013, 03:19 PM

i don't usually get involved in these blowout dramatic threads, but i feel like i have to ask the OP a couple of honest questions. no bloviating, no BS, just curious...

what is your end game in this? are you trying to get a big score by eventually selling it, or are you trying to collect something for the fun of it? because as a Yankee fan (well, I should have said this two weeks ago, lol) and I pulled an A-Rod auto missing the auto, and Topps offered me an auto to replace it, I'd have jumped at the chance, and the card would be in my display case right now. are all autos of the same player the same value? no, but Topps offer seems reasonable to me. you'd have the A-Rod autograph you so desperately seem to want.

next, you said you had a meeting with A-Rod to sign it all set up, but Topps wouldn't send a representative. did you honestly blow off a chance to meet and get the autograph of one of the most prolific, yet polarizing baseball figures of our lifetime, just because Topps wouldn't send a rep? you could have gotten the auto, the memory of a lifetime, and sent it off to JSA/BGS or PSA/DNA and for $30-$50 or so, gotten the authentication you so desperately seem to want. this seems like an odd decision to me.

what if everything in this entire situation went your way... best case scenario: Topps admits fault, A-Rod signs the card, Topps rep stickers it. BGS grades it 9/10. now in this scenario you are finally made whole. what do you do? sell it, keep it? because if you keep it, then why blow off A-Rod? you have the auto. and if you sell it, will the riches you would reap be worth all the trouble? you'd no longer have the card, the whole situation would be gone from your life. and you'd be left with what? a couple thousand dollars tops? the man's card values are dropping by the day with all the trouble he keeps getting in. if you truly were looking to cash in, you're literally losing money every day you hold onto it, autographed or not.

are you just trying to "teach Topps a lesson" by holding them to some corporate standard of righteousness? i honestly want to know the answers to these questions because your actions and motivations truly baffle me at this point.

02-01-2013, 03:19 PM	#79
charnick Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 2,503	i don't usually get involved in these blowout dramatic threads, but i feel like i have to ask the OP a couple of honest questions. no bloviating, no BS, just curious... what is your end game in this? are you trying to get a big score by eventually selling it, or are you trying to collect something for the fun of it? because as a Yankee fan (well, I should have said this two weeks ago, lol) and I pulled an A-Rod auto missing the auto, and Topps offered me an auto to replace it, I'd have jumped at the chance, and the card would be in my display case right now. are all autos of the same player the same value? no, but Topps offer seems reasonable to me. you'd have the A-Rod autograph you so desperately seem to want. next, you said you had a meeting with A-Rod to sign it all set up, but Topps wouldn't send a representative. did you honestly blow off a chance to meet and get the autograph of one of the most prolific, yet polarizing baseball figures of our lifetime, just because Topps wouldn't send a rep? you could have gotten the auto, the memory of a lifetime, and sent it off to JSA/BGS or PSA/DNA and for $30-$50 or so, gotten the authentication you so desperately seem to want. this seems like an odd decision to me. what if everything in this entire situation went your way... best case scenario: Topps admits fault, A-Rod signs the card, Topps rep stickers it. BGS grades it 9/10. now in this scenario you are finally made whole. what do you do? sell it, keep it? because if you keep it, then why blow off A-Rod? you have the auto. and if you sell it, will the riches you would reap be worth all the trouble? you'd no longer have the card, the whole situation would be gone from your life. and you'd be left with what? a couple thousand dollars tops? the man's card values are dropping by the day with all the trouble he keeps getting in. if you truly were looking to cash in, you're literally losing money every day you hold onto it, autographed or not. are you just trying to "teach Topps a lesson" by holding them to some corporate standard of righteousness? i honestly want to know the answers to these questions because your actions and motivations truly baffle me at this point. Last edited by charnick; 02-01-2013 at 03:22 PM.