[Tao_Moko]

If you're willing to pay more money for a number on a flip inside a piece of crap plastic then are you not driving the efforts of those trying to take advantage of it? Are you really a baseball card collector if it's the slip you're concerned with?

I believe there was much less abundant fraud when I bought cards from *bay back in the days prior to rampant grading. Somewhat unrelated - I miss the days of getting "Four Base Hits" in the mail and placing an order hoping that mine arrived first and a card would arrive in a small brown box. That was exciting.