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Jim VBLeon,
You, and the rest of the board have a much longer history with Jim C. than I do. I've only been around the board about a year. In another year or two, his style may get to me also. I didn't use the term "witch hunt". I would use the term relentless.
The answer that Al cited from Doug addressed issues going forward. Jim has accepted that answer but asked questions looking backward. Doug was pretty clear that he wouldn't address the past.
From Al's post: "...neither myself or anyone from my firm will ever engage in the alteration of cards. We will disclose alterations that we note in items that are consigned to us and will continue to scrutinize cards submitted to us that have already been graded by an independant service. I refuse to say anything else on the subject..."
I know I don't really have a dog in this fight (no cock fight jokes here.) Most of my cards are still raw. I've never sent any in to be graded. If ALL graded cards were found to be altered, I'd have to deal with 20-30 cards. Jim C. would have much bigger problems.
That's why I can't figure out any ulterior motive he might have for forcing this issue. The only possibilities I can come up with are: 1)that it's personal between him and Doug/Mastro or 2)he really just wants the truth.
In either case, he's risking the value of his collection.
Edited to add: The issue of Jim not wanting to inspect his current cards is puzzling. If he found some that had been altered and they had come from Mastro, his argument would be much stronger.