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AnonymousI am the individual running these clearly identified T-206 reprints. The holder is accordingly marked, the cards all have REPRINT on the reverse, my description certainly cannot be considered to be deceptive, and so what if GAI chose to encapsulate and accept the appropriate fee? SGC certainly has a large number of reproductions in their holders. They are curiousity items, nothing more nothing less. To compare the encapsulation of these by GAI and SGC to the "quality" operations of AAA is virtually obscene. Quite a difference between the snip, snip, snip, of a Spaulding catalog and the encapsulation of these "snippets" to be sold to unsophisticated collectors, with the slabbing of clearly identified reprints ALREADY extant in the marketplace.
The real grading companies are in business to place product in their holders. Providing the contents of their holder are clearly and accurately identified, I see no harm in the practice.
For the record, these are not something that I would spend money on grading. They came to me as part of a large dealer inventory that actually had some real cards in it hence my opening bid price is far lower than the grading cost.
My marketing skills must be slipping this morning as I should have come on this board proclaiming these to be the greatest collectables to have ever come along thus inflaming the purists here to such an extent that I perhaps would have recieved an offer to buy me out of these wonderful, investment quality, potential family heirlooms that are the envy of Western civilization.
It's not too late! Stop me now! Buy me out!!!