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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Jay, I'd love an answer to this following question: why would one of the unslabbed guys sell me a trimmed, expensive card and then not take the card back for a refund when he was found out? I suspect it was because he was a greedy criminal. Are all you unslabbed guys greedy criminals too? Is that why you're against slabbed cards?

See, what you guys don't seem to appreciate - and it honestly astounds me - is that every single person who is for slabbed cards was once someone who wanted to simply collect raw cards. We all wanted that because that is the way we collected as kids. Once we started spending more money on cards, however, and found out that an advertised NM card was really Ex at best, and once we purchased that first trimmed card and lost money, we decided to take some of the risk and seller greed out of the equation. That's it, plain and simple. Why on earth does this have to always revert to a religious discussion when it really is all about dollars and cents and human nature being what it is?