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Posted By: barrysloate

Joe- I think the conflict of interest in a grading service selling cards would be significantly worse. First, they aren't even in the business of selling cards. Second, the worst thing an auctioneer could do is bump somebody's bid 10%. A grading service could trim and alter cards and then put them in their own holders. This is something that was actually done by one of the very first people who professionally graded cards; he trimmed them and then he holdered them as NR MT. This miscreant is long out of the hobby and I think today he is selling vacuum cleaners door to door, or something of that ilk.