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Peter_SpaethAdam whle I generally agree with your assessment of reasonable reliance in the context of a representation by a purported expert, I think it is a much harder question given the highly unusual nature of the representation at issue, namely that there are no other cards on earth of the same type as the one for sale. Expertise seems to me to give way to common sense here: what rational person, especially a presumably sophisticated buyer, could reasonably believe such a representation? Would anyone here have relied on Brian Drent for the proposition that the Jackson was unique, for example?