Greg, I'm not suggesting everyone should have been as vocal as me regarding Mastro, Allen and Goodwin -- I'm saying many people tried to stop the criticism because of their great financial dealings with those three and others with suspect auction results. And you know this to be true.
And there should be no defense of shilled auctions. Just because someone only was ripped off 10-20% for an item does not make the fraud less insidious. Multiply that times tens of millions of dollars over the years. The bottom line is that with all the fraud in this hobby I'm surprised that the most venom is reserved for behavior which I don't think rises to the level of a crime -- no matter how repulsive it is.
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