Trusting only graded High price cards and Ohio dealer
 

As a longer time collector and seeing so many fakes and reprints out there, my collecting views have turned to graded only cards for purchased of high priced cards. For me that's All Mantles, 50's major stars, 63 rose and also my '58 jimmy brown to name a few.
I like filling in my sets with cards that never were, i.e. the Lemke items, but I just can't swallow the risk of buying a Mantle under the raw title of "you judge" or "All sales final" or "sold under a could be reprint" theme. I also look at feedback to guide me with the moderately expense 50's cards.

On another front, where does the Ohio guy with 98.8-99.1% feedback get all his cards? He's always out there with lots and stars, albeit I have to say that most look 1 to 1.5x grades too high. But did buy a graded maris and it was fine.

Comments on either welcome.

billp

Agree with your sentiments on anything high priced. It's just too risky not to buy graded. The sad fact is, there is still a market for "listing this as a reprint" type-fakes when cards that routinely should sell for 5 figures can be faked and still sell for a couple hundred bucks. I find it hard to believe this kind of thing still goes on with eBay, but it does. If you have zero scruples whatsoever you can get some obviously fake Mantle cards and sell them every week for at least $50 a pop; I've seen it happen. My advice to people who like raw cards would be to buy graded for anything high dollar (to me that's over $50 but each unto their own...) and then learn how to bust out of the slab when it arrives.

Based on recent trimmed cards appearing in graded slabs, it’s not a fool-proof plan to just buy graded cards.
Get educated, buy from trusted and reliable sellers and stay aware of red flags.


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Grading is not infallible, but it is a good safety net. I would agree that a combination of a trusted seller plus getting PSA or SGC for high dollar items is the best bet.

You can probably trust graded low priced cards more than high priced examples. And I'm not sure about this Ohio guy. If be was from Wisconsin I'd say he's definitely trustworthy.

Cheezy
 

Hey, I think I resent that.:mad:

Just a joke, I have no idea who the OP is referring to.

I think he's referring to Triple Play Vintage on ebay.

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