I am not ashamed to tell the story on how I was robbed of about $424.00 from a Yahoo Sports card auction, and how they refused to help me with the issue. The bottom line here is that it has almost come to the point where you have to pick and choose where you will get your sports cards from. Oh yeah, I have been burned at sports card shows as well. Don’t be afraid to claim that you have been scammed, if you collect sports cards sooner or later it will happen to you. If you wish to collect sports cards of your favorite yesteryear sports stars, then don’t be afraid to collect reprints so long as those are also from trusted sorts, like these pictured here from Topps. Most of these (pictured above) are from their 1996 Topps tribute to Mickey Mantle. These were inserted into packs of Topps regular, Topps Chrome, and Topps Finest. There were regular issues and refractors as well.

Back to my rip-off transaction which was slated right at Yahoo sports cards auctions. It has been about 8 years now since that happened and I never blogged about it before, because they stopped that fragile practice of auctions. But they were not very helpful at all. I cannot even state that my auction was too good to be true. It was not until I submitted my Mickey Mantle (1959) card to PSA that I was aware that is was a fraud. The card looked just like they described the card, and the price was right around the right amount for a card in that condition, as well as compared to ebay and other auction houses at the time.

I think nothing hurt more than that all alone on an island feeling, that was given to me by Yahoo auctions. You gotta love that old “try to work it out between you and the seller first routine!!!” Yeah right, the seller was a crook. So there were negatives and one after the other, more and more people were getting stiffed with these auctions. Yahoo wiped their hands clean of this and I along with about 15 other buyers were all out our respective monies. Needless to say, I never used Yahoo auctions again and eventually they seized to co-exist in the auction business. Now for me it’s ebay and only ebay. I am not a huge market purchaser so the need never arises for me to use some of the other very reputable auction houses. They are out there and your money is safe with them. If you have a horrible auction story with purchases to sports cards, please right me and tell me. I will also be placing it on my facebook fan pages with your permission of course. Thanks for reading.