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Posted By: runscott

AAA aka Libertyforall aka Roy Huff, buys vintage publications, cuts out the pictures, puts them in screw-downs along with a "grade", then sells them on ebay as "paper stock cut-outs". He does not refer to them as "cards". He has several other handles that he uses to do this, in an attempt to make it look like there are lots of sellers handling his "product" and that there is a big market for it (there isn't). He runs his auctions as 'private' and then shill bids some of them to add to the aroma...er, I mean aura that there are actually interested buyers.

Roy Huff ("AAA") will also accept vintage publication mail-ins for chopping/"grading". So you can buy a 1912 Reach guide on ebay for $140 and mail it to Roy Huff ("AAA"), telling him which pictures you want and even what size (he has a form) and he will trim them up for you and put them in his screw-downs. There are a few "Roy Huff wannabes" who are buying into this and having him grade their magazines and old Spalding and Reach Guides. You can tell these newbies by checking their feedback - after running a few auctions they change them to 'private', presumably after their bidders get bombarded with emails telling them they ain't buying cards, or, more likely, after Roy himself (the king of cut-outs) sends them information on how to properly market this "crap".