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Posted By: Red

If all he's doing is popping out low grade original unaltered cards and then putting the exact same unaltered cards into high grade PRO holders he is committing no crime. If he trims the card in the process then he could be committing a crime depending on where he’s located. According to the item location he’s operating out of California and they have some very good laws on the books applying to collectibles and this practice. If there’s any California lawyers here who know how “slam dunk” this sort of case would be, the 10 times damages awarded to the plaintiff might be a profitable venture to the winner of a $2000-$5000 Cobb. Obviously the guy has some money to be buying these cards in the first place. Before and after pictures of multiple cards bought and sold by the same buyer will make it real hard to claim he didn't know anything about how the cards changed size.