I have a feeling that by the time Gavel Chat readers see this CLICK HERE eBay will have removed the auction listing, but try to check it out anyway. It looks like the seller of this Clemente rookie decided to doctor a PSA label, and make what looks like a mid-grade card, look like a PSA 8. The thing that baffles me is that bids have already exceeded $700. How gullible are people?

I snagged the image just in case it gets pulled early.


Now time to blog about yesterday's pot I ended up stirring. Yesterday's entry was meant to call out some people and raise some important issues. My intent was not to put down gameusedforum.com, which I think is great for the hobby by the way, or any of the well-meaning members who participate on the message board.

I made my points in yesterday's blog and stick to them.

For the original man who photomatched the Namath helmet, I never meant to note that you didn't do a good job on what you discovered. My point was that many people were making it sound like Heritage acted irresponsibly by going ahead to promote the Namath helmet before it was ever authenticated.

I just wanted to make sure that people knew how Heritage's entire consigning process worked and that its third-party authenticator never saw the helmet until this week.

I want to thank the two gentlemen from the board who called me with their concerns, as I genuinely enjoyed our conversations.