Jmad- it's not only on ebay that you can get stung buying a raw card, I have purchased raw cards from different prominent auction houses which were later graded as authentic because they were trimmed. I bought a lot of E94 cards about 2 years ago from a major auction house and 2 of the 10 came back trimmed. I also bought a rather expensive card on the BST which was raw but looked fine and had it graded 2-3 years later and it came back from SGC as authentic. You just never know. The best thing to do is to read this board with all the good tips on detecting altered cards, use your experience, try buying a small order first from a new dealer/seller to see how his customer service, packaging, response time, fairness in grading is, and then go from there. There are nice raw cards on ebay which you can pick up at good prices, it just takes a sense of awareness. Good luck!
tbob
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