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Anyone have any experience with this seller?

Great feedback and always have key raw cards. I have always avoided just out of worry...am I missing out?

Kind of smells of a seller that cracks 6-7 graded cards with great eye appeal and resells raw.

My opinion is you should stay away.

See Battlefield0516 thread

EDIT From Greg's post below it sounds like I was mistaken.that these two sellers are affiliated. Mea culpa.

Thanks guys!

The question was directly related to the battlefield thread but I wanted a more direct answer. Sounds like I was right all along.

Nice to get some reassurance. :)

great_lakes_auction_house is affiliated with ebay users northern_specialties and felchers_cards who are all out of Michigan and run by Dan, Tom and Chris DePatie. They may have one other ID. I do not think they have any affiliation whatsoever with Carolyn Battles of battlefield0516 who is out of Alabama.

I posted this in the Battlefield thread.

I have made one purchase from Great Lakes Auction. Purchased a raw Reggie Jackson rookie and was hoping for a 7 but came back a 6.5. I was happy overall with the card as a lot of bidders were going after it because of the centering being near perfect. I certainly would not have purchased if they did not offer a return policy.

David Watkins

Thanks for the additional clarity!

I felt they were buying graded cards, well centered with tiny creases. Then cracking, doctoring up the scans, and selling raw.

when buying a raw card most people are already suspicious..i know no one would pay a psa 8 price on a 1000 card that's raw..usually at most a psa 3-5 level..so it would have to one heck of a psa 1-3 card that is bought and cracked open but I can see how that would work

A recent auction a few days ago had a 1954 Jackie Robinson raw sell for about psa 5 level for 238 so I can definitely see a profit there of a 100 on the right psa 2 card... .a 1952 topps pafko sold for 700 or so which is a psa 4-5 level....if he bought a psa/sgc 2-3 and cracked out that's a few hundred bucks

Raw inventory is priced and does sell using SMR and VCP. There are many auctions for raw, high eye appeal near-mint cards selling for PSA 8 pricing. Even some cards selling at $200 for a common card that is called NM-MINT that would otherwise be worth $0.50.

can always point to an example here and there..but again go and pull 1953 psa 8 Jackie robinson out of a holder and sell it raw and im going to guess it doesn't go for psa 8 pricing......would make sense that the card would just be in the holder and not raw it it could get that...no reason a seller would remove it from the holder...buyers know that as well...

and yeah im sure there are lots of raw cards that are nm-mt...but going to be more from cards from years where psa 9s are normal for psa registrys for that year and maybe even 10s..so nm-mt raw are aren't worth much like 1974 topps...