EBay Seller of the Month

[saintsforever]

What do you mean by faced the same direction?

Mark, on 1 side you may have a rugby league player and on the other side you may have a boxer/golf player/ rifleman/greyhound/vfl player etc.
And if you turn it from 1 side flipping it 90 degrees the sporting personality should be standing up or they should be a panoramic view if a greyhound, rifleman etc.
There are 100 different cards, there may be many different combinations of pictures, I have 5 McMillan cards all with different pictures on the reverse side.
I hope that clears some confusion.

 

[DK Trading Cards]

do they have a different picture on the back, and are they faced the same direction.

Yes mate they do have another picture

 

[MarkTomo]

Does anyone have any experience with 1933 BDV cigarette cards. I bought 3 from EBay a couple of weeks ago and they don't have that old feel or look about them.

Just thought I would bring it up while everyone was talking about fakes.

These are the pics of the front of the cards.
I asked Mum and Dad about them ( they aren't as old as the cards, so they tell me, but they remember the cigarette cards) and they seem to think they are real.
There are pics on the back but still not convinced.

 

[the game rugby league]

I could be wrong but they look reproduced. Looks like someone cut them with scissors

 

[hobo]

I could be wrong but they look reproduced. Looks like someone cut them with scissors

I don't think they had solar powered plasma laser cutters in 1933.

 

[the game rugby league]

Of course and probably not white cardboard like that either. I have seen more originals cut straighter than them. It is as if they are cut crooked on purpose to look old

 

[saintsforever]

These are the pics of the front of the cards.
I asked Mum and Dad about them ( they aren't as old as the cards, so they tell me, but they remember the cigarette cards) and they seem to think they are real.
There are pics on the back but still not convinced.

Mark, I have about 300 hundred of these cards, not 1 of them are cut like those, as previously said, look like they have been cut and the borders are too big, my opinion and strongly said, they are reproduced ones.
Go to any antique shop and ask for old cigarette cards if they have any, not one of them would have perfect corners. They are similar thickness to the 63-64 scanlens cards as well.

 

[Dr Grange]

AS PROMISED 013 TOOVEY you be the judge..

 

[the game rugby league]

Numbers look straighter and in line that its a real one. Spaced better on that card

 

[DK Trading Cards]

Just checked my Legends i missed out on the 13 do have 12 and 15 but not 13 dame it

 

[hobo]

Numbers look straighter and in line that its a real one. Spaced better on that card

AS PROMISED 013 TOOVEY you be the judge..

I still can't see anything wrong with the embossed numbering, it is identical. I overlaid the images of the two cards, mucking around with the opacity and the gold embossed numbering lines up perfectly it is to close to call different. You can see double outlines of the emblems but the numbering merges into one. Hard to see but here's an image.

What you do notice is the alleged fake is stamped a little higher on the card than the card being put forward as real. The numbering just above the Select Australia trade mark print is what mine look like.

Cheers
Ross

 

[the game rugby league]

That number one to me looks a little closer to the zero time to get out the engineering ruler

 

[Victor The Viking]

You could make a tv show out of this

 

[Jaede]

Looks like someone is selling dave's cards and calling them 2003 RL Cardz
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2003-RL-..._Rugby_League_Merchandise&hash=item566a1cd664

 

[DK Trading Cards]

Looks like someone is selling dave's cards and calling them 2003 RL Cardz
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2003-RL-..._Rugby_League_Merchandise&hash=item566a1cd664

Thats wrong there 2013 not 2003 and someone told me that there Daves also he had them on here as his own cards and now there selling here dave got told not to sell i bought souths off pete last week

 

[hobo]

Looks like someone is selling dave's cards and calling them 2003 RL Cardz
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2003-RL-..._Rugby_League_Merchandise&hash=item566a1cd664

That does not seem right to me I think this seller has lost some credibility profiteering on these, well with me at least.

R

 

[Dr Grange]

I still can't see anything wrong with the embossed numbering, it is identical. I overlaid the images of the two cards, mucking around with the opacity and the gold embossed numbering lines up perfectly it is to close to call different. You can see double outlines of the emblems but the numbering merges into one. Hard to see but here's an image.

What you do notice is the alleged fake is stamped a little higher on the card than the card being put forward as real. The numbering just above the Select Australia trade mark print is what mine look like.

Cheers
Ross

Ross have you done this to the Roach card???
If so can you post the results....

 

[batboy]

That does not seem right to me I think this seller has lost some credibility profiteering on these, well with me at least.

R

Seller in a thorough gentleman of the Card Collecting game...
A wealth of knowledge, And has done more for us than most here combined.
(Although you probably don't bother to realise)
He's not dressing mutton up as lamb, The listing is quite clear....
He's selling something that he owns (Nothing illegal there?) - How do you know he makes a profit?
He may have made a typo, It's common knowledge the cards are manufactured at the same place as the
2003 RL Cardz. I'd suggest this small confusion does not lessen his credibility an iota...

 

[saintsforever]

Seller in a thorough gentleman of the Card Collecting game...
A wealth of knowledge, And has done more for us than most here combined.
(Although you probably don't bother to realise)
He's not dressing mutton up as lamb, The listing is quite clear....
He's selling something that he owns (Nothing illegal there?) - How do you know he makes a profit?
He may have made a typo, It's common knowledge the cards are manufactured at the same place as the
2003 RL Cardz. I'd suggest this small confusion does not lessen his credibility an iota...

totally agree with everything you said Rob, some people out there do not really look at who is who, we all make typos typos typos every now and thennnn.

 

[hobo]

Seller in a thorough gentleman of the Card Collecting game...
A wealth of knowledge, And has done more for us than most here combined.
(Although you probably don't bother to realise)
He's not dressing mutton up as lamb, The listing is quite clear....
He's selling something that he owns (Nothing illegal there?) - How do you know he makes a profit?
He may have made a typo, It's common knowledge the cards are manufactured at the same place as the
2003 RL Cardz. I'd suggest this small confusion does not lessen his credibility an iota...

Hey Robbie,

Sorry mate, I certainly wasn't attacking the individual I was more commenting on the morals of these cards being available for sale. From what I know, and that is very little as you point out, pclarke is someone who you can buy from with absolute confidence, he sells lots of these more offbeat collectibles such as bootlegs like RL Cardz (so many you would have to assume he knows the manufacturer well), stickers, magazines, club releases and maggi cards etc and I've bought of him myself. It is reasonable to assume he may not know who the rightful owner is and reasonable to assume the person supplying them to him isn't telling him any background as they are just bootleg cards being sold anyway.

Unfortunately common knowledge is not that common because I certainly didn't know theses were printed at the same place RL Cardz printed their 2003 bootlegs, where is it? In fact I thought the RL Cardz were done in the UK partly to avoid licensing issues etc so I am not sure where that common knowledge came from. I suppose if you deal with the people supplying and printing them then it would be common knowledge.

I suppose my point is, as I understand it, these cards like the 5 Star set were never distributed for resale by the owner / designer so somewhere someone has lost a lot of integrity by breaking that understanding and making them public, by the looks even printing them without permission and hence profiteering. Let's be honest who sells at a loss?

Ross