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Posted By: SC

The biggest concern I would potentially have is how the description is written. In theory, the auction staff should be writing fair, accurate, enticing, but also somewhat impartial descriptions. Is it possible to write an equally objective description/grade for an owned item as a consigned item? Perhaps. But we've all seen the old "when the collector has it it's ExMt, when the dealer is selling it it's NrMt" difference. Grading has taken some of the bias out, but some is still there.

Edited to add: This is meant as a general comment on auction houses/ownership.