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Posted By: JimCrandell

It is fun Leon--I'm a true collector--every card in every set I collect and I like it in high quality. I also like it unaltered as do most on this board. Card alteration is widespread in ungraded cards, it is widespread in low-to-mid grade and now its permeating high grade. As one leading national dealer e-mailed me yesterday--"the funny thing is that collectors think that ungraded cards aren't just as much if not more impacted(by alteration)than graded cards".

If you want to ignore all this and get in your digs against me fine--your supporters and my detractors will no doubt come to your defense.

But in the hobby as a whole there is increased recognition of it every day--just look at where we are now versus six months ago...and it has the potential and I would say even the liklihood of continuing to change the hobby for the worse each day it goes unchecked.

Jim