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Posted By: Alan Elefson

Jim-
No one on this board (or any serious vintage collector) will ever take you seriously unless you do exactly as Wonka suggested in his first post on this thread. If you were to have your entire collection reviewed and a certain percentage was found to be altered, I would love to see PSA's response. That act alone would serve to clean up our hobby/business a thousand times more so than the constant harranguing of Mastro by yourself on this board. To paraphrase what Wonka said, if the press were to learn that your collection (I am not sure of the dollar figure, but I am guessing it is quite high) has altered cards that were graded by "professional" grading companies and those companies will not admit to their mistakes, the uproar will reverberate through the collecting community until PSA (and other grading companies) change their practice. This would also stem the flow of newly altered cards (an area you say you are most concerned with) as grading companies would be forced to improve their practices or risk having to pay up for their mistakes.
The only thing that might hold you back is the discovery of altered cards in your collection, and the possibility that you will not be made whole on cards that were incorrectly graded. If you are not willing to accept this risk, please stop saying you are doing this on behalf of the entire hobby/business. You are only doing it for your own gains. If that is the case, fine, but please do not continue to post claiming you are fixing things for all of us.
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com