Jeff I appreciate your remarks and perspective, but with all due respect I disagree with you on appearance of conflict. For one thing overgrading is not the only potential problem with slabbing cards, and even then, it is subjective. But leaving that aside, assuming Dave does buy and sell cards, which you haven't denied I don't think, I for one don't want a grading service run by a card dealer whose grading service is grading his cards. It just raises too many questions, where basically we have to take his word (or those of his employees) that it is all on the up and up. And it may well be, but it is unnecessary.
And your statement that there are other conflicts, while perhaps true, does not excuse this one. Joe Orlando is not, to my knowlege or anyone else's, buying and selling cards.
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