Speaking of getting hosed on eBay...................

[Yoder409]

Unless I am missing something the person who bought this call got a ROYAL hosing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEIL-GOBBLER-COST-BOAT-PADDLE-TURKEY-BOX-CALL-/201362257134?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=qNiOTdYgMVnzTAmiis%252BBBXG6mcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[29810434]

Sounds like a Kirby made call that neil signed.

[Yoder409]

Sounds like a Kirby made call that neil signed.

BINGO !!!

Came from an NWTF banquet.  Have one just like it.  In the heyday of buy up everything Neil madness, this call was worth a grans, tops.  $400-$450 today.   

Seems like quite a mis-representation on the seller's part to me..................

[BowBendr]

Didn't know an autograph could fetch that much. Wow !


Sent by this stupid phone

[Yoder409]

Autographed copies of Neil's books will go a couple hundred or more.

Even an original UNSIGNED copy of his call making VHS tape are an easy $50

[mikejd]

Hey who knows. Maybe the guy who won it is worth millions. Maybe 1900 bucks is chum change and the call is something he really wanted. I know I have over paid for a few things in my life because I had to have it.

[Yoder409]

You could very well be right.  But I wish I knew he was willing to dump that kinda scratch on a $400 call.  I'd have sold him mine for $1800.   

Seriously though.....................for what he paid he was close..........REALLY clos to being able to get into an honest to goodness Cost paddle call.   

[Tail Feathers]

The seller represented it as made by, and signed by Neil Cost.
The description said Dick Kirby got a license to make a similar call but his were a bit different.

I won't be paying that kind of money for any call, just wondering how you know it's fake?

If it is fake, the seller completely misrepresented it.

[Yoder409]

Like I said in my original post............ "Unless I am missing something"................ which I don't think I am..............

I have the EXACT same call.  Same screenprinted description, same gobbler stamp, same Neil Cost penciled numbering and signature.  Just, obviously, a different number out of 850.  So unless Neil decided that he was going to make call #722 in this series by himself, yet have it look the same as the other 849................  I'm just sayin...............   

[Turkeyman]

I talked to Neil back in 1979 and had him make me a call. I really had to think about it at the time because it was $29. I retired it from hunting several years ago because I didn't want to either break or lose it...I had left it lying beside a tree several times over the years and had to go back and find it. It doesn't matter what it's worth, it will be my grandson's in a few years.

[Yoder409]

Which makes it PRICELESS !!!     

[Tail Feathers]

I'm just curious, I suspect you are right.  I don't think Neil Cost made a series of calls in that large a number either.
Hope the buyer finds out and the seller makes it right.  That's a lot of money to invest unless you are certain of the authenticity.

[eddie234]

Buyer beware!!!! I see things on there all the time listed as "rare" "vintage" and they are things that are everyday items.

[R AJ]

 For instance,one of the most common is the "vintage"  Lynch Call with Liberty Ms, and Georgia stamps. Some of those are some of the best production calls of the day but because it shows World Champion 1958 does not indicate the date of manufacture but rather the year that the call won the championship.
I have old Ben Lee, Eddie Salter and Lynch and am about to think that I may be "vintage".

[Onpoint]

Unless I am missing something the person who bought this call got a ROYAL hosing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEIL-GOBBLER-COST-BOAT-PADDLE-TURKEY-BOX-CALL-/201362257134?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=qNiOTdYgMVnzTAmiis%252BBBXG6mcQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

I'm pretty sure that call was listed on here a couple months ago. That guy actually called me and told me the story abiut that call.