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Originally Posted by Balticfox

So now in addition it's "All I know is that Ebay says it's authentic." So the game has now become to fool the pro authenticators because it's their opinion that's sacrosanct. Since nobody cares about the seller's opinion, the onus for sellers to be honest has disappeared.

You can count me as unconvinced that the onus on sellers to be honest was more powerful than their profit motive. Not to say that there aren’t plenty of upstanding sellers. But all it takes is a few bad apples to really cause a whole lot of trouble.

I’m guessing it won’t take long for one of the historians who catalogue the industry’s blackguards to respond with an extensive list of those bad apples.