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Posted By: <b>Chuck Tapia</b><p>Sorry to hurt your feelings pal with all that talk about my financial loss, but I was kidding about the Ruth Ball. Lest anyone think I was serious. I used to collect quite a bit so I'm no stranger to the problem in the hobby. This is about fraud plain and simple and the people who are perpetrating it on the public. Sure I've been a victim once or twice? Do you think I really care? No. That's why the clowns like this get away with it.<br /><br />I was kidding by calling you a "slab" and you get all bent out of shape? Nice sense of humor. I quit the hobby with a pretty decent collection, back in the day when you could just collect the cards and you didn’t have to buy everything graded for fear of being ripped off. The hobby changed for the worse. Go waste your money with your graded slab cards and go put them in a box. I'll do what I do. I only re-entered the collecting of balls and a few decorative pictures for my office. This is why this is a parallel issue to what card collectors are also facing. It’s all a matter of perspective. <br /><br />I'm sorry I didn't discover this or find it fascinating 20 years ago. It is fascinating NOW which is why YOU would even follow it and the 600 plus entries.<br /><br />By the way, I was not singled out by anyone. Leon wanted to check my e-mail address you dufus. He said I could verbally slap you around as much as I'd like because he doesn't like you and thinks you are a pompous A, which I tend to agree. Stay on the topic, get off the pot, leave your name or get the h off this thread that is hurting your cards and your pride so much. Who really cares? <br /><br />The fact is, this has turned into a great site to offer this much information to people, new fresh collectors and old crusty ones of all types of collectibles and you come in here and shellac them like your stupid old Tom Billingworth /Ruth Ball with the wax chip that nobody cares about. It isn't about you or me. Let these guys stick to the issue and stop knit picking at me and hiding behind your PC and snipping people who are decent enough to share their name and then having "Pie Hole" calling out people by usingtheir real names. It really says everything about the little coward you are. Real class.<br />