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Kenny ColeScott can speak for himself, but I didn't read his post to read that he would have ripped off the "mentally challenged" person (my wife is an EEOC lawyer, so "retard" is sort of verboten) if he'd had pre-war cards. What I interpreted was that he didn't have any cards Scott was interested in, but, had Scott been interested, he would have made him an offer that was at least relatively consistent with some decent perception of their (wholesale?) value.
After all, had Scott wanted to rip the guy off, he could have bought the cards he wasn't interested in for a song, sold them for much more, and then used the free cash to buy cards that he actually wanted. No one would have been the wiser, and many dealers I know or know of would have done exactly that. I personally have no heartburn over what Scott said and don't read any evil intent into the post.
Kenny Cole