[Mungo Hungo]

Just to balance things out, sometimes people actually are very generous and will go out of their way to send hard-to-find cards to strangers.

A month or so ago, I had a want list of just two cards, and posted about one of them on another forum. Someone I'd never met and never corresponded with asked for my address in a private message -- and sent me the card. From another country. He even declined to give me his own address, so I had no ability to pay him or send him anything in return.

It wasn't really a high value card, but has a population of less than 50, and from the fact that I was posting about it, it was clear that I would have been willing to pay a fair amount for it. But the guy who sent the card is a collector, not an investor.

Now I'm certainly not saying to trust people blindly. I also got an obvious scam email in response to my post. But if I hadn't posted at all, or had ignored the private message, I wouldn't have received the card, and my want list still would be at two rather than one.