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Posted By: Joann

I think disclaimers such as this (or similar) are not that uncommon if the seller is a consignor and is taking a product description at the word of the owner. Kind of like the next step in the ebay "Not me" food chain. Just as ebay can't become product experts on all things sold, a through-seller can't become expert on all things he sells either. So to some extent he is dependent on the owner-submittor for description.

Which gets exactly to David's point. Sellers as middlemen insert language of this type to insulate themselves from the likelihood that there will, eventually, be an inadvertent misrepresentation based on inaccurate info from the submittor. A knowing misrepresentation is something entirely different. Oh, and as to the analogy DRC gave - hee. Good one.

In this case, since the seller is the owner is the submittor, and the card's deficits clearly spelled out during the previous auction, I'm not sure that it falls into the category of inadvertent-misrep-based-on-middleman-position.

Joann