eBay & Home Made Grading Service

[54killebrew74]

Hi...has anybody ever heard of or dealt with a seller on ebay called gradedrookies ? Well I have and to be honest it looks like pretty cheesy...
Would like your options on these cards and see what you think.
I could make the same thing using colored paper, paper punch and a 4 screw down holder & fill the screw holes with hard resin...LOL....what gets me is they over tightened them as shown. I still have not figured out why they punched the corners out of the paper for since it is a recessed holder.
The seller did reply to my emails telling them I wasn't all that happy and they offered to give me $15 off a ebay store purchase...lol...so what did I do, I went back trying to get the other frank thomas I needed and it was in their store for $15 so I bought it AGAIN

The Kirby in the auction add looked great with good centering...
This is what I got...I don't agree with the 9.5 centering.



Then we have got good ole BIG HURT which was not the card I bought for which they sent me the wrong card, yes granted sellers make mistakes just as I have but I don't agree with the perfect 10 for centering...

[sportyryan101]

Looks like a complete fake!

[eddiejr]

LMAO ™™™?

maybe the "grader" is cross eyed and the cards look centered to him

[54killebrew74]

LMAO ™™™?

maybe the "grader" is cross eyed and the cards look centered to him

you could be right

Here is his add on ebay...

Graded Rookies, Inc., featured by Beckett in the August 2001 issue of Baseball Card Monthly (e-Trends), is a national dealer of investment-grade sportscards. Make Graded Rookies your home for the highest quality graded baseball, basketball, hockey, and football cards from the last 50 years.

[rksnascards]

....I could make the same thing using colored paper, paper punch and a 4 screw down holder & fill the screw holes with hard resin...

NO....you would not make the same thing....YOU would do a much better job!

It's a shame that someone would stoop this low.

Graded? Don't make me laugh!

[eddiejr]

you could be right

Here is his add on ebay...

Graded Rookies, Inc., featured by Beckett in the August 2001 issue of Baseball Card Monthly (e-Trends), is a national dealer of investment-grade sportscards. Make Graded Rookies your home for the highest quality graded baseball, basketball, hockey, and football cards from the last 50 years.

lol maybe he was featured in beckett in 2001 as someone to avoid at all costs, its not like someone has an august 2001 beckett lying around to verify
lmao @ highest quality

[TheTGB]

Wow, talk about someone without an eye for the hobby.

[sportzking]

Just by looking at the case you can tell it was a homemade grade. Sad part is the person who made the case can't even be original. Using a screwdown holder?

[tutall]

lol maybe he was featured in beckett in 2001 as someone to avoid at all costs, its not like someone has an august 2001 beckett lying around to verify
lmao @ highest quality

i have a ton of becketts from around that time... ill see what i can dig up

[tboculosis]

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LOL.