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JimBWhen he was so vehement against grading (and I was a poor grad student), I bought cards in his auctions that he listed as mint that were raw. They were Cracker Jacks, etc. This was the early days of grading. They would sell in his auctions for half the price of graded examples at the time. One I remember in particular was a 1915 CJ Speaker. I won it for $1100, sent it to PSA, got an 8, and sold it to a dealer for $2,250. Not bad.
JimB
P.S. He has been incredibly rude to me in my two or three encounters with him at shows. But I appreciate the ego that convinced him he could single-handedly stop the grading craze. It helped me earn a little extra cash in grad school. He finally gave in when he realized there was money to be made.