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Judge Dred (Fred)This thread of hypotheticals is fun... would I like to see the bottom fall out of the card market, SURE, then I could pick up material reasonably and the material I paid dearly for would be damned but it'd still be mine.
High quality counterfeits would probably be detectable through some type of testing. This would only lead to higher prices in having cards slabbed. There'd be two slabs - the first being the cards slabbed before "greater detection" and the cards slabbed with the "greater detection". I think John's right, it's fairly easy to tell if a low-mid grade card has been altered. Those cards would probably be safe. The unfortunate grouping of cards would probably be the high grade cards. Just my opinions.
Seriously, like I've always said, I could care less if this cardboard turned out to be worth only a few dollars a pound because I'd pick it up cheap and it would make the hobby that much more enjoyable. I'm in it for the stats, teams and history of the game not to pad my retirement. After I retired selling off a collection would be difficult, it'd be like trying to figure what child you'd like to sell. I'll leave that up to my family after I'm dead and gone. I would hope that they would keep a couple of the cards for my memory, but if they sold them all and decided to buy a bigger big screen TV with the cards, that's their choice.