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Posted By: JimCrandell

For expensive cards this means that I would buy them from dealers who carry an extensive inventory like Steve Novella, Kris Keppler, Peter Lalos and perhaps Larry Mayer who would have no qualms about mailing an expensive card to Kevin and have him look at it first.

I realize auction houses are not set up to operate like this at the present time so it makes me unlikely to buy cards sight unseen at auctions. Given what I know, think and hear about many of the larger ones, I amk happy to redirect my business away from them.

This used to be the way I bought cards and companies like Superior Sportscard, Sports Cards Plus and Andy Madec in addition to Steve and Kris would call me directly with cards I needed for my graded sets. Hopefully we will see more dealers going back toward this business model and away from the big auction houses and ebay.