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A few years back, I had sent in six vintage wax boxes to GAI for grading / encapsulation.

They asked if I wanted to auction one box through their "auction process" and what would my minimum bid be?

I authorized them to auction one box with a $2,500 minimum bid.

I got my five boxes back and then someone alerted me that my other box was listed on eBay for $4,000 somewhere in California. When I looked at the map of the seller's location, it was a store in the same area as GAI. When I phoned GAI to ask what was going on, they said I had authorized a "sale" so they went ahead and sold it and now this guy was reselling it.

The only small hitch in this equation was the fact that I didn't get any money from this sale. When I phoned to see what was going on, I was told that the "cheque was in the mail".

Then I came on the board here and saw all of the kerfuffle about GAI closing and the bells started going off.

They did end up closing and when I demanded my money they said I would have to wait until they reopened again for business.

Right !!

Long story short, I contacted Leon, he got me a personal cell # for Mike Baker and after a few calls back and forth (none too pleasant) I was refunded the money by PayPal personally by Mike Baker so kudos to him as well.

I am in Canada and the odds of me getting my dough back were between slim and none.

I am still indebted to Leon to this day as without him getting involved I am pretty sure I would have been beat.

There's more to this nutty story re GAI employees and the store selling stuff but this is enough for today.