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Old 03-10-2018, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by buymycards View Post
Before we all had scanners and eBay and TPG's, you couldn't trust anyone. About 20 years ago I bought my first two prewar cards from Teletrade. The first was an EX T206 Clark Griffith card that came back from PSA as trimmed. The second was a M116 Blue Background that wasn't really a Blue Background.

That ended my purchasing from Teletrade.
Teletrade was insane. That robotic voice on the phone, the frantic phone calls trying to get through close to 10 PM. I did pretty well buying ungraded stuff there, luck of the draw I guess.
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