What's all this about?

[holtie96]

The wonders of eBay again, a while ago it was a Chelsea jigsaw at 700 quid now a few press photos, see all of the other listings reaching over 100 quid each! 120786422933

[sharrowblade]

I have absolutely no idea.

There's definately more questions than answers.

Are we to believe that 28 press photo's from Chelsea matches at the beginning of the 70s are really worth £3000?

What kind of person puts in a bid for under £10, then follows it up with a number of bids of a similiar pattern in £100 multiples seconds apart.

If for whatever reason someone is willing to pay £400 plus for a couple of photo's then why not just bid the once?

Very strange.................very strange indeed.
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[Boroflag]

Must have deep pockets.

Look at the other photos for sale and the Chelsea collector is in for over £3K if all his major bids pan out!

[ToffeeDan]

A sure case of shill bidding if ever I saw one. Same bidders, ludicrous amounts.. get out of here!

[2.718]

What a joke. All the items going the same way ... hmmm.

[JJPROGRAMMES]

The 2nd highest bidder on this item has in the last 30 days had 22 bid retractions and 46 in 6 months!!

[sharrowblade]

Okay, here's my take on this for what it's worth.

To start with, the items are hardly unique, with all photo's there are more than likely more than one copy, so why the high price.

Looks like the seller does have a genuine interested party, a party to which the seller knows has a lot of money but little brain.

The seller has a little friend, as JJ pointed out has a history of bid retractions. More telling that 5/6 of these 'valuable' items have had bid retractions from said little friend.

The explanation for retracting these bids are all 'entered wrong amount'. Now, One I can understand, Five, no way Jose.

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[1980Cossie]

The same buyers are going head to head on another RARE press photograph from 1965/66 sold by Dave Allen, afraid there's no shill bidding involved just 2 nut jobs with lots of cash. Its up to over £1000 with just 6 days remaining. At this rate i will have to dig out my 20 shoe boxes or so of press photo's from the 1920's onwards i'm quite sure i have dozens involving Chelski.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PRES.....48424627ef

[Auchinleckian]

I'm sure it's not just me, but some people must be absolutely barking with far more money than sense? A 60's football photograph worth £1k plus.....never.

[1980Cossie]

Crazy isn't it, i have a 1937 Bologna v Chelsea photograph from a tournament in Paris, think i'll be holding out for £4K

[MisterGas]

I have a 60's photo, of me with me Diddler out, might put than one up.

[ToffeeDan]

Can someone explain to the fool he can take a copy - or even get on off the internet from somewhere - and print it on decent photo standard paper - for NEXT TO NOTHING!?

Frame it for a fiver -- and display it. End of story.

[2.718]

Surely people don't have THAT MUCH more money than sense.

[garyspain]

ToffeeDan wrote:

Can someone explain to the fool he can take a copy - or even get on off the internet from somewhere - and print it on decent photo standard paper - for NEXT TO NOTHING!? Frame it for a fiver -- and display it. End of story.

You can do that with a programme too though.

BTW I am still shocked at the prices.

[Wullie]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orig.....3a6b404124

this one has no bids so far? different seller. he selling some cracking originals but press photos sadly are out of my radar. One because of limited funds and two because of limited knowledge, so i stick with programmes.

[2.718]

There's a lot more SAFC programmes to come after that one. The seller has a very large collection of mainly photo's that he's getting rid of.

[Wullie]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRIS.....1c1f919f33

those moneybags Chelsea boys are at it again. The mind boggles