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One of the best was to educate yourself for online buying is simply to follow reputable auctions and look at photos of real cards. When you do that enough, most online reprints will be obvious. Not all, but a lot of reprints are obviously reprints at first look. The experienced eye is a sophisticated tool.

My story is an old time collector wrote me that he had been avidly collecting Goudeys for years, recently heard about fakes and was worried that he might unknowingly have some in his collection. I told him that if he'd been collecting genuine Goudeys for years-- enjoying looking at them, handling them, sorting them, etc-- he'd be the first to know if any were reprints.