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OP here again.

I'd like to thank all who responded, and I did learn something from this thread. I learned that the practice of adjusting the price on a card when it is in your cart is not unusual.

What I did not learn much about, and what I was most interested in, was how people felt about this system having no transparency. I guess I could, as one poster suggested, keep copies of my cart and look for changes. Perhaps I will have to do that. I would rather be advised that a card price has been adjusted. Then I can respond as I see fit.

Maybe if I had worded my original post differently, I could have been more precise, and gotten more of the replies I wanted. I did not intend a DC bashing thread. My fault there.

I'd like to say one thing more in defense of DC (and I know I will take flack for this, but I feel it needs to be said for fairness and balance) since so much of the opposite has been aired.

There are not many online sites that will show both sides of thousands of commons at several different grade availabilities. I say not many, but I can only really think of one. This is very important to me. This service costs Dean time and energy, and his customers should pay for it. So it is not surprising that DC prices are higher than others who don't offer this service.

Further, from my, somewhat limited, experience, their grading is fair, and they deliver quickly and pack well.

I don't buy a ton from DC. I pick and choose and look around a lot. But some special things I can't find just anywhere. I am a bit of a cheapskate and will get the best deals I can wherever I find them, but I don't have the time or resources to search thousands of commons in any other way but online. And that is often what I need to do to find the cards I want. So DC really fills a niche that I appreciate. I would love it if they were cheaper, but I also would love it if I were a few inches taller and a few decades younger.

Thanks again to all, and to all a good night!

Richard D