Ouch – $2000 For Replica Cricket Memorabilia

Posted: April 18, 2010 | Comments: 0

I just stumbled across an online memorabilia store selling a series of Adam Gilchrist signed cricket bats for over $2000.00.

– and the thing that blew my mind was that IT’S NOT EVEN A BAT HE’S USED.

It’s not authentic at all, just another manufactured collectable – and they are selling it over over two thousand dollars – ouch.

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I’m actually finalising the price of the MCG frames with the framers tomorrow as well – so keep an eye out for a full FAQ email in a day or two; which will announce the price…

BUT THE AUTHENTIC MCG CARPET FRAMES WILL BE A LOT LESS THAN HALF OF THAT PRICE !!!

I also wanted to let you know that I’m doing my best to answer all the emails you’ve been sending in…

… and I look forward to answering your biggest questions in the next few days in that full FAQ video.

There has also been lots of great comments sent in after my last email (keep ‘em coming). I read every one of them and truly appreciate your feedback and kind words.

Just to let you all know, if you are reading this email it does mean you are on the pre-notification list – and you will get FIRST crack at acquiring a piece of the MCG this week – most likely Thursday! (Thanks to Di for this question)

Elisabeth sent me this wonderful email:

“Thank you for the update. I had the pleasure of hearing about your initiative through your interview with Red Symons and thought wow, this is wonderful for us Melbournians who love the footy and the G, as when it comes to commercially available memorabilia there is no history and personality to it so I thought here is a guy who has a great idea and for the right reasons… so I wanted to be a part of it and good on you I say.

Looking forward to hopefully getting my piece of history which you will no doubt be a part of.

Best….”

This is what this project is all about.

Countless number of people have described how in the past they’ve been disappointed with the available memorabilia. It’s either been too expensive, too cheap and tacky, not authentic, too commercialised.

Here is one email that blew my mind about signed memorabilia

“…They might look good on the wall but they are totally unauthentic. If they are a premier sports team with squiggles for signatures who is to know that they are actually those of the players? I know this for a fact. My nephew is a member of the XXXXXX Sheffield Shield team. He has told me that if they do a signing of bats etc. and a player is absent and unavailable for sometime, someone else will sign for him!!

These bats will go for several hundred dollars. Admittedly the players see little of the money but that is not the point. It is downright fraudulent and a massive rip off…”

I do hope this doesn’t apply to the $2000 Gilchrist bat.

Well we’re doing our best to make this the Greatest + Most Authentic Australian Memorabilia Collection of all time.

Can’t wait for this week, it’s going to be awesome.

Cheers,

Pete

P.S. This is incredible. We’ve had another 80 odd people join the list since Friday. I had no idea it would get this big. And I’m flattered, but a little freaked out by it. I just hope that there won’t be too many disappointed people out there who miss out on a piece of the G.

P.P.S. if you have ANY specific questions you want answered, please shoot me a reply email so i can answer it in the FAQ video I’m putting together for everyone.

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