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MarkThanks for the clarification. I guess BST is now oriented towards dealers/flippers rather than buyers or collectors selling off dupes. The new rule seems intended to protect the increasing number of dealers whose business model is to buy cards on ebay and mark them up on BST. They'll no doubt prosper under the new rule in the short run since some naive buyers will miss the ebay auctions and not realize how much they are overpaying for the cards. Of course most of these buyers are also board members.
In the long run, I suspect making BST too dealer-oriented, like card shows, might drive some buyers away. I rarely attend card shows because prices are regularly marked up at 150%-200% of ebay.