American Memorabilia Auctions

[Mulligans]

Has anyone noticed that the last few AMI auctions have had some real nice GU Pieces?

The Super Bowl Auction that's running now is loaded with some pretty nice NFL items!

I know that they get pounded on this site, but hey......I picked up a couple of real nice Gamers in the last few months and I'm pretty psyched!:)

[nationals2k9]

Hey, everyone deserves a mulligan, mulligans

[jhunt28]

Has anyone noticed that the last few AMI auctions have had some real nice GU Pieces?

The Super Bowl Auction that's running now is loaded with some pretty nice NFL items!

I know that they get pounded on this site, but hey......I picked up a couple of real nice Gamers in the last few months and I'm pretty psyched!:)



You are right...ever since they let individuals sell the items, and ship the items, I think the problems for both buyers and sellers have lessened. There are some great Jets and Pats items in this auction...as well as a nice looking Favre, but I have no clue about what is or isn't real from #4 these days??

[nickacs]

Yea it's funny how about 50% of the football items are of Buffalo and Pats.. LOL... Not a whole lot of "star" players, but there's some good ones..

I'm with ya on the Favre.. I'd love to own a real one someday, but even with his Favre holograms/etc, I'm not too sure if it's real.. Maybe someone here can chime in.

Good luck to all bidders!

[gwh11]

The Favre jersey that you're referring to is good. If I remember correctly, it was not laundered after the last game it was worn in.
-Guy

[nickacs]

The Favre jersey that you're referring to is good. If I remember correctly, it was not laundered after the last game it was worn in.
-Guy

Thanks for the info.. Not that I'm disputing you, but really just wondering, how do you know it's legit? I looked up pics from both games on Gettys/AP/Icon/etc and there's no real "stains" or other specific noticeable jersey characteristics to match to those games. Again, maybe the photos don't do it justice..
I'm really interested in it and if it's really 100% legit, I'd love to bid on it.. I've been bitten too many times on major superstar players to go off "LOA"'s by 3rd parties or the players organizations themselves, so I'm just overly cautious these days! :)

If you prefer to contact privately, just hit me up on PM or email.

Thanks!

[nickacs]

Sorry for the bump, but was just wondering on anymore thoughts on the Favre jersey? I know gwh11 said it was good, and I tried to contact him for more info, but can't accept PM's.. So if you see this, let me know! :)

Otherwise, if anyone else has any info, I'd greatly appreciate before placing a bid..Thanks!

[Shipp_96]

So individual sellers are running the Super Bowl auction? I ask, because I am seeing the EXACT same item show up at two auctions at the same time:

(http://%20www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=%5CGame%20Worn-Used%5CFootball%5C&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60)http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=\Game%20Worn-Used\Football\&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60 (http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=%5CGame%20Worn-Used%5CFootball%5C&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60)

http://cgi.ebay.com/2004-SHAUN-ALEXANDER-GAME-WORN-AUTOGRAPHED-SHOES-/250770871968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a631bd6a0

Because I somehow seriously doubt Shaun pulled a Favre and changed shoes at halftime vs. the Rams that day :rolleyes:.

I was pretty stoked about the shoes for the price a the American, then seeing them again on Ebay...now not so much. Any thoughts?

[legaleagle92481]

So individual sellers are running the Super Bowl auction? I ask, because I am seeing the EXACT same item show up at two auctions at the same time:

(http://%20www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=%5CGame%20Worn-Used%5CFootball%5C&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60)http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=\Game%20Worn-Used\Football\&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60 (http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=57888&c=%5CGame%20Worn-Used%5CFootball%5C&t=Open&p=0&s=&offset=60)

http://cgi.ebay.com/2004-SHAUN-ALEXANDER-GAME-WORN-AUTOGRAPHED-SHOES-/250770871968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a631bd6a0

Because I somehow seriously doubt Shaun pulled a Favre and changed shoes at halftime vs. the Rams that day :rolleyes:.

I was pretty stoked about the shoes for the price a the American, then seeing them again on Ebay...now not so much. Any thoughts?

heres the scoop. AM had issues with paying consignors and ended up owing alot of people alot of money and people stopped consigning for fear of not getting paid. Then AM came up with the idea that seller's can manage their own auctions including receiving payment which took away peoples fears of not getting paid and being forced onto the creditor line. many listings on there are the same as on other sites like ebay. am unlike ebay allows shill bidding and hidden reserves so dont be stoked about prices until you actually win.

BTW Nickacs, Guy gh11 is the man when it comes to favre jerseys he was involved in proving favre jerseys with hologram and gu inscription fake a few years ago which was featured in scd. if he says its good id believe him.

[NFL_Fan]

Does anybody know if the AMI auction end times are East Coast or West Coast times? Nothing mentioned there.

Does anybody have experience with their 15 minute rule? I personally do not like it because you may hang around at the computer for hours.

Thank you for your opinions.

Frank

[Shipp_96]

Thank you for the information, legaleagle. I appreciate your response. So, they have hidden reserves at American, huh? Of course...

Well, I may end up passing all together then. The starting price was right around what I felt they were worth, personally.

[Mulligans]

It's West Coast time and rarely is bidding such a frenzy on AMI that you have to stay up late. If you find yourself bidding aggressively at the end, unfortunately you are probably bidding against the House.:mad:

[nickacs]

So I've been doing a little more research on the AMI 2006 Favre jersey and with the help of the older GUU SCD Favre threads by Mr. Hankel and other posts, I notice that the NFL shield logo plays a big part if the jersey is "legit" or not.
BTW, the previous GUU threads on Favre jerseys have been great reading and very informative. Thanks to all!


Here's what I keep finding.. IMO, inconsistent or incorrect NFL shield logo placement if this jersey was the one used in the 9/17 and 10/8 games vs. the Saints/Rams respectively.
The Getty photos seem to show the logo down lower with hardly any yellow underneath it, while the AMI jersey shows more yellow. Maybe someone can blow up the Getty photos to show better closeups, but I don't know how to do that :) Maybe it's just my eyes playing tricks on me?? Dunno..

It could be that these "action" shots just distort the jersey and it's creased/folded/etc a certain way??? Dunno...


Again, not trying to discredit/disrespect Mr. Hankel's opinion on the jersey being "legit", I'm just trying to make sure with better substance that the jersey is indeed "legit" so that I don't possibly blow $4k+ on a jersey that is bogus.

Any/all opinions/comments welcome! ;)

AMI photo:
http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/pics/61940_05_lg.jpg

Getty image from 9/17 Saints game (Editorial# #71912017):

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/71912017.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FD71B288233A527CCB 50C462AF24A7189A201701F272296FFB

USPressWire image from 9/17 game:

http://uspresswire.com/image/thumb/600-600/2132368.jpg

Getty image from 10/8 Rams game (Editorial# 72118703):

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/72118703.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FDB0510B0BB8A90B5B 69DDD25C8EA858901C0A1A403B117A11

[nickacs]

Sorry for the barage of pics again :) I was looking at some Bears jersey photomatch pics on APImages and totally forgot to look there for Favre pics from the games...

Looks like I'm wrong about the Getty pics vs. AMI NFL shield pics in my previous post. At least that's what my eyes are telling me! haha :)

Here's some real nice closeups of the NFL shield logo from both games on APImages.. Do you guys think these match the AMI ones perfectly?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jkx0OKmnH3CamETSjtnNn4gWNXbp5dz7xRB7cBn_uK6NW6SGOP L6OPVzdmCwlkx75U_qlfEi6bCXT84Vt2A8UBdcO8fPnAHK_E0V 5AvJR02Cwmqe5JY

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/yN3z0AWES6C9c7Q6DFdoA6s5rWjtfKgl048dSnp41hsEAKEw6w YADQ0Igf6UyVIR0UeCcYH6RJZVNw0QoqQfGruFpxlTq30Kd8z9 bjXgOlSDauL6btc

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/AwejADes-UJ0a38B3vUcES5FpRtjo0fi2Gq22yYLxhK2ailBZmsYh-PdrEcuj9JBvs7FU4pzNO92KjzTgLdb9f6sQpj3be2CsA4doQuo 9vl-l87h6Ds
http://www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&kw=brett%20favre%202006&showact=results&sort=creationdatelower%3Areversealphabetical&intv=None&sh=10&kwstyle=and&adte=1297308045&pagez=20&cfasstyle=AND&rids=740ed13bd6e2471799ba1434044f39a0&dbm=PY2006&page=1&xslt=1

[nickacs]

I don't get it.. the day after this auction ended, now some of the same exact items are being re-sold for their Feb 24th auction deadline?? :confused:

Did people who won the items not pay? But seems awfully sudden to re-list the items the day AFTER the last auction was over... I placed bids on two items that I lost out on, just to see one of them back again..WTF :mad: :rolleyes:

Any ideas or experience with this crap??

[AlexT]

I means they didn't hit the "hidden" reserve

[nickacs]

I means they didn't hit the "hidden" reserve

Ahhhh, I see... Hmmm.... Thanks!

[solarlottry]

i have used the NFL shield to photomatch quite a few shirts. One day i was going thru Getty and found an image of my Steve Young 1998 ProBowl shirt which i won via the Huggins and Scott auction a while back. The shirt was in Herman Moore's collection but i could never find a good image of him in it. I was looking for something entirely unrelated to the shirt or Young and found the image and the NFL shield lined up perfectly! Needless to say i was pretty stoked. Of course i cant find that image again on getty or my desktop but it will turn up!

Always buying 49ers gamers
Best
paul
garciajones@yahoo.com

[legaleagle92481]

Ahhhh, I see... Hmmm.... Thanks!

If you notice alot of the items were recently posted on Ebay.

[Mattapan03]

I have to say, this auction house has become a joke. I had my eye on 2 items from the most recent auction. The items had ZERO bids for over 10 days. For shits and giggles, I decided to place a bid. Within FOUR minutes I was outbid. I actually laughed to myself. So, for the hell of it, I placed a bid on the other one only to be outbid in SIX minutes.

Over the past 3 years, the selection of jersey's has been pretty much equivalent to horse manure.

OK. Rant over.

[Dewey2007]

Had the same thing happen to me tonight too on an item that had zero bids. I bid at about 7:50pm and then all of a sudden I was outbid. At first I thought maybe a real person outbid me but then it dawned on me and I laughed too. What can you do...


I have to say, this auction house has become a joke. I had my eye on 2 items from the most recent auction. The items had ZERO bids for over 10 days. For shits and giggles, I decided to place a bid. Within FOUR minutes I was outbid. I actually laughed to myself. So, for the hell of it, I placed a bid on the other one only to be outbid in SIX minutes.

Over the past 3 years, the selection of jersey's has been pretty much equivalent to horse manure.

OK. Rant over.

[jppopma]

I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. I bid on an item in the last auction that had no bids on it right up to the end. I placed a bid and shortly after was outbid, placed a second bid too before being outbid and getting skeptical.

I wonder how many people play the game and keep upbidding themselves to reach these hidden reserves?

[Shipp_96]

I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. I bid on an item in the last auction that had no bids on it right up to the end. I placed a bid and shortly after was outbid, placed a second bid too before being outbid and getting skeptical.

I wonder how many people play the game and keep upbidding themselves to reach these hidden reserves?

Yeah, I dealt with the same crap from them myself. Bid on a pair of cleats, (and I bid my ceiling, so quite a high bid actually). Not a day passed and I was magically outbid! I laugh because there it sits, with that one bid over mine. I guarantee tomorrow it will be listed on there again.

[Mulligans]

Just about all of the football items and many other items on AMI are owned by forum members...maybe it a good idea to let guys know what you are looking at and they could contact you directly with better pricing when the Auctions end.

AMI (or the computer) will definitely bid to the reserve if that's the type of auction the seller selects.

[Mulligans]

Shipp.....I had a few pairs of cleats in the last AMI Auction.....Email me what you were bidding on.....maybe they were mine......and we could work something out.

[Flamechicken]

Hello, this is the first post I've made on this forum, although I've been a member for over a year. I had a recent conversation with American Memorabilia this past weekend regarding a Don Majkowski game used Pro Bowl jersey that they had listed:

http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=66245&t=Closed&p=0&q=majkowski

I informed them that this could not have been game worn because Majkowski did not play in the game. After I informed them of this, they stated that they would check with their "source" and get back to me. Well, after a day and no phone call, I called them back. The woman I spoke with (didn't get her name) stated that I was probably correct and that it was most likely game issued.

I asked if they were going to end the auction early and relist it since there were already 2 bids. She said no and that they would just change the description.

Well, the auction has ended and as you can see, they didn't pull the auction or even change the description.

I saw a previous thread that showed the manufacturing date codes for Wilson jerseys. This jersey has a code "CZ", which I believe to mean it was made in December 1990, 10 months after the 1990 Pro Bowl, am I not deiphering the code correctly?

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to get in all the info. that I had.

[BrianK]

Hello, this is the first post I've made on this forum, although I've been a member for over a year. I had a recent conversation with American Memorabilia this past weekend regarding a Don Majkowski game used Pro Bowl jersey that they had listed:

http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=66245&t=Closed&p=0&q=majkowski

I informed them that this could not have been game worn because Majkowski did not play in the game. After I informed them of this, they stated that they would check with their "source" and get back to me. Well, after a day and no phone call, I called them back. The woman I spoke with (didn't get her name) stated that I was probably correct and that it was most likely game issued.

I asked if they were going to end the auction early and relist it since there were already 2 bids. She said no and that they would just change the description.

Well, the auction has ended and as you can see, they didn't pull the auction or even change the description.

I saw a previous thread that showed the manufacturing date codes for Wilson jerseys. This jersey has a code "CZ", which I believe to mean it was made in December 1990, 10 months after the 1990 Pro Bowl, am I not deiphering the code correctly?

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to get in all the info. that I had.

I think your information is correct.
January 27, 1990
"Randall Cunningham, who was named most valuable player of the Pro Bowl last year, will have a chance to duplicate the feat Feb. 4. Cunningham has been chosen to replace quarterback Don Majkowski of Green Bay, who has withdrawn from the game citing personal reasons, a bowl spokesman said yesterday in Honolulu. The Eagles quarterback will play behind the scheduled starter, Joe Montana of San Francisco."