Posted By:
warshawlaw<< Sorry, I don't deal in slabbe [sic] material, only RAW..otherwise these cards rocket over the top and nobody can afford them. >>
This has to be the silliest thing I have read on this board this month. These are AUCTIONS. The bidders set the price, so it is impossible to create a situation where "nobody can afford them". Since this explanation holds no water at all, we have to move to the next level. Steve, if you are honest, you need a lesson in economics. If you are a crook, you need one in debate.
Here is your economics lesson: More money is better than less money in a free marketplace. If you slab a rare card and it sells for more money than it would have raw even with the slabbing cost factored in, you make more money, and you can buy your kid the GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip, your wife will want to *&(%(* you more, etc. If you are trying to make a living on this, earning more money is what you want to do. If you really believe these cards are real, drive them over to your SOCAL neighbor GAI (they are in Irvine) and have them graded, then relist them.
Here is your lesson in debate: Claiming in one post that the criticism of you hurts your livelihood and claiming later that you don't have rare, expensive cards slabbed because you want to keep the price down is what logicians would call a "contradiction". Contradictions are bad. They show that your argument is a load of crap and that you are a liar.
So, what are we to conclude? Either (1) Steve is trying to sell fake cards and is pissed that he is being called on it, or (2) Steve is economically and rhetorically challenged and needs to work on his gameplan before trying to piss in the tall weeds with the big dogs.