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cmokingeveryone decides for themselves. There is no "we" when you are spending your own money. Nobody is going to decide how I spend mine, nor am I going to decide how someone spends their's. With that said, here are my personal thoughts for my money:
(a) Do we no longer purchase from Memory Lane?;
I won't say no, but I will be very careful. I'll probably only bid on cards that I know are consigned and that I know the consignor. In the latest auction, I won a card which I knew who the consignor was, and that made me more comfortable bidding on it. It really limits my choices, but I'm comfortable with that decision.
(b) What do we do with cards (graded and raw) already purchased from Memory Lane?
I personally will look through my records and review all the ones that I bought from them very very very very carefully. I'll have a friend of mine who is really good at spotting altered cards and ask him to please check them out for me.
(c) Do we likewise blackball all auction houses subject to these allegations (this isn't the only one), because of the potential for some questionable cards?
Every auction house is different since they are run by different people. I'll try to judge them individually and see how comfortable I am bidding on their stuff. I know there are some auction houses that I will be very comfortable with and others that I won't bother to bid at all. But for me personally, I'll make a case-by-case decision for myself.