Posted By:
Corey R. Shanus"So far I am unimpressed with any efforts to clean up the hobby."
Dan's thoughts echo mine. Unless and until the day comes that people who claim to really care about cleaning up the hobby are prepared to put their money where their mouths are, nothing major is going to come of this. And what specifically do I refer to? The tap dance around the main issue -- getting slabbed altered cards out of their slabs. This is not going to happen merely by getting a second opinion about some prospective purchase. Say it comes back negative? Then all that's been accomplished is that the purchase will not take place. However, the card will remain in its slab ready to be gobbled up by the next prospective purchaser. Until the day comes that people are prepared to have their "suspect" (e.g., lacking provenance, coming from issues with a significant rate of alteration, etc.) slabbed cards re-examined and have those deemed altered put in slabs that accurately indicate the true state of the card, this is all hypocritical banter.