Could have been worse...
My take on this documentary...I believe that it was done by someone who is more recent to this hobby/business rather than a life long collector and viewing through that lense it is easy to see how it took the form(s) that it did. Shame because they got access to some people who really could gave provided some interesting takes and insight. Makes it all seem like a sea of dishonest people with just a few crusaders trying to clean it all up.
And with regard to the forger...this is a card collector board so it can sometimes be hard to see the forest through the trees but I am familiar with his work and this is no master. He took advantage of online selling and uniformed collectors who wanted to get "good deals." You don't need to be a master forger to sell material to people shopping for discounts. That would be akin to a bunch of autograph collectors pointing to Etsy sellers of reprinted baseball cards and proclaiming the sky is falling because people are being duped and spending money on them. And I'd like to see what piece was used as an exemplar. I don't believe that claim.
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