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Davenot to be morbid or anything , but if the initial consignor's son died that can cert ainly be checked through obituary records if anyone knows the persons name. Personally, I don't buy the son dying story. I've seen to many slickly presented auctions to believe otherwise these days. I even suspect that the card was auctioned with full knowledge of it's lack of credibilty. This also might have been a case of CSA wanting to "pass the buck". They may have hoped the next buyer would never know the card was not genuine....thus washing their hands of the item.
As for the hit CSA will take on this one....I guess it depends on word of mouth advertising. I've told everyone I know who collects about this incident, and have directed many newbies to the forum the last week to read about this. I know my brother and I will never participate in another CSA event. This is one of those episodes that makes people who don't collect cards really laugh at us for wasting our time and money. I don't know about everyone else on this board, but $18,000 is a lot of money, and if this was me, CSA'a ass would be in every court I could drag it in to