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JimCrandellAlthough it was nice to see Al and Manny and Mike and Dave and Frank again and to meet others in the hobby, I came away from our meeting a little disappointed.
No one really shared my belief that the hobby needs a collectors association and noone really shared my belief that although card restoration is an epidemic that anything should be done about it.
When I asked Doug to elaborate on Mastronet's views on taking creases out of cards I got a firm "no comment"--so apparently there was a rethinking of the answer that provided on Net54 earlier. Not that I am a huge customer off Mastronet but I did spend $20K in their last auction and thought that the issue deserved a comment.
It seems to me that the leading dealers have more or less banded together and are refusing to comment about
what they will do about taking creases out of cards.
That is their right but it is also the collectors right to know this.
A special thanks to Dave Forman who did his best to be as forthright as possible during the meeting.
For those of you who are happy this is apparently ending in failure --congrats--its a problem that I think everyone at the dinner agreed applies to ungraded cards, low-to-mid graded cards and high grade cards.
As one participant said to me after the meeting--Jim--its back to the Wild Wild West.
I do not know what I will do from here--probably nothing unless people who feel similar to the way I do want to push forward with something.
Jim