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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

The whole desperate attempt to try to lure someone into spending more money on a card than what it is worth is just offensive, sorry. As an example, a couple years back I had been buying up cards of a certain player and spending a lot of money on the cards. I then received an unsolicited offer from a board member to sell me a "minor league card" of the player -- sight unseen -- for some obscene amount of money. Of course, the "team" the player was supposedly playing for on the card was a team the player never was on! I questioned the seller a bit about the card and received some vague, ridiculous answers. I then asked for a scan which, of course, never came.

I know that selling cards isn't my vocation but I think trying to lure buyers into spending too much money on a card is just a scummy thing to do. This is our hobby that we love. Perhaps it wouldn't be so much to ask that we treat each other with a bit more respect when it comes to buying/selling.