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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
The guy is charging $5 for the cards and disclosing that they are reprints. His intent is to defraud?
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How much do reprints usually go for, without the artificially aged look, about a buck right? Another buck for shipping? $2 bucks!
Someone might be interested in paying him $3 bucks per card to rough them up, but I'd rather have a pristine reprint to dream over.
The five dollars includes shipping, but it doesn't say how they are shipped.
Then when I looked at the Wagner, it was $15, but included Case (screw down) and......wait for it....Tracking Jerry, Tracking. Now there are two more items to mark up and the profit starts to add up...the American way of Capitalism at work here. For another $5, I bet I can get a bow and for another $5 a Certificate of
nonAuthenticity.
Really not illegal, dubious, but not illegal. Enabling a third party to resell a reprint as authentic, which will invariably happen, is a real shame as far as the hobby is concerned, but as ebay is evidence of, there's apparently more than one sucker born everyday. This fits right in with the banking industry motto - An Uneducated Consumer Is Our Best Customer -