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Posted By: Judson Hamlin

Jeff- You're right; and I include myself in the Frank/Ted camp. I have found that the further along I go with my 206 and 205 sets, there are just not that many raw cards to choose from, from buyers that I would trust sight unseen. Also, many of the dealers that I do trust and have dealt with for years now sell graded cards almost to the exclusion of raw cards. That doesn't make me want to stop doing business with them, it just means that I have to buy graded cards, sometimes at a premium, to progress these sets. I haven't started to exhume the graded cards (yet) but I agree with Frank that they take up way too much space as compared to a top-holder.

OT for Jeff- Tacopina's trial down here starts on Monday- he's been busy warming up his rightous indignation muscles, so he should be ready