Agree with your sentiments on anything high priced. It's just too risky not to buy graded. The sad fact is, there is still a market for "listing this as a reprint" type-fakes when cards that routinely should sell for 5 figures can be faked and still sell for a couple hundred bucks. I find it hard to believe this kind of thing still goes on with eBay, but it does. If you have zero scruples whatsoever you can get some obviously fake Mantle cards and sell them every week for at least $50 a pop; I've seen it happen. My advice to people who like raw cards would be to buy graded for anything high dollar (to me that's over $50 but each unto their own...) and then learn how to bust out of the slab when it arrives.
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