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Posted By: doug goodman

My apologies for starting all of the threads on the b/s/t, I didn't actually expect as much interest as my question(s) seem to have generated. But, I'm glad it did. Scans, links, prices, I, like many others, just request info from sellers in regards to what they are selling.



My goal in posting to each catagory was for as many people as possible to see my post. My reasoning for not posting on the main board was because, on average, I think that main board members tend to be smart enough to post the that info when they sell. Along those lines, I posted in multiple catagories because I'm sure many people only read the catagories that interest them.



My post(s) were not meant as whiney complaints, just confused questions.



Back in the golden days of communication via postman, I too used to buy cards from people sight unseen based on the seller's opinion of a grade. After a few purchases from an individual or his company, you usually had a pretty good idea of how they graded stuff, so you could buy accordingly.



But, three things have changed:

first, we now have the technology to easily get pictures to out there



second, prices for everything are exponentially higher than they were in the pre-internet / fax machine / mobile phone past.



third, maybe I'm wrong, but back in the day our entire hobby was friendlier, in a "it's not really worth forging this autograph or faking that card, because it's not really worth anything anyway" sort of way. We bought stuff because we thought it was neat, no other reason.



Oops, there I go bashing the grading companies.



All the best,

Doug