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Originally Posted by bobb49
FatJack, this is Bobby Moore. Where did you get this? Is it for sale without the Topps logo?
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Prior to their auctions, Topps Vault creates the images that they'll use to sell the actual negatives/transparencies/blank backs/etc. As do many other sellers, they then park the images on an auction helper host site. I don't know how many they offer in a given week, but figure they have at least enough images parked to get through several days. As images get posted to eBay, new images are created and parked. Yada, yada, yada. Point is the Moore images are newly parked but have not yet been offered for sale. When offered for sale, you can bid along with anyone else (usually, any image I'm interested in, other people are also, so I don't usually win them). If you win the negative or transparency, it will not have the Topps watermark on it. The watermark exists to keep people who don't buy the negative or transparency from using the image from the auction and/or profiting from its use. Note: you would require either special equipment or better knowledge of software and hardware than I personally have to be able to use the negative or transparency. Actual size tends to be like 1 3/4 by 2 (or something like that) and they are--as the words express--negatives or transparencies (think "slides"; do you remember slides?), not like polaroid pictures or 8x10s or anything. And, FWIW, Topps sells them, technically, as memorabilia; I don't believe actual use rights are transferred (though the courts might have to straighten that one out). By that I mean it is not Topps intention, should you purchase one of these, that you can then run off hundreds of 8x10s and sell them on eBay (though I'm sure that happens).
I'm sure I've expressed this poorly. But, hopefully, the answer you're looking for is in there somewhere.