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Originally Posted by BioCRN
I've taken a good amount of personal criticism (none here that I know of) for saying I don't mind buying from the crooks and criminals of the hobby because the hobby doesn't punish, police, or otherwise move these people out of the hobby. I accept it as part of the hobby because the hobby has never shown me otherwise.
It's kinda odd considering how good the hobby is about self-policing the investigating and breaking the news of hobby corruption. The hobby is really good at finding the bad apples, it's what comes afterwards that's lacking substance.
That said...most people are awesome. Some are above and beyond, downright generous. Nonetheless...
In my own collecting life (since the early 1980s) I've never known an era in this hobby without crooks. I've never known an era in the hobby without nearly yearly "shocking" corruption.
I may be missing some instances, but I'm yet to see any of the corrupt actors leave the hobby unless they voluntarily remove themselves.
I just want pictures of baseball dudes and I can't find a justifiable reason to bring myself to bother with a purity test.
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There's a lot of common sense here. This hobby (business) is completely infested and that is not going to change. The best one can do, if one wants to collect at a certain level, is to learn as much as one can about who to avoid and how to avoid altered cards, but it only gets you so far.