[Leon]

Great post jt39. Much appreciated. Since I am a strong "supporter" of the FBI's investigation into the hobby I think I understand some of their reasoning on who/why they go after who they do. They can't go after every guy selling $5 fakes. That isn't how we would want our serious tax dollars used by them either. That is for a local police dept and local law enforcement. The CC Auctions meet a few of their criteria but probably not all of them, on their decision to go after them or not. There is almost no doubt they have been looked at though. As stated earlier, and if I remember correctly, it is because these are in fact "opinions" of their experts as to the reason the case would be a tough nut to crack, notwithstanding the comments above. How many times do we see differing expert testimony in court? From what I have seen, as an ordinary layperson, things get pretty muddied up when you have all sorts of experts claiming different outcomes of authentication. I just don't think the FBI wants to go there. Now, if someone can show where CC unequivocally ripped someone off for 150k, and it's an open and shut case not involving only an "opinion", then maybe they would take a more formal look. Also, it's not the FBI themselves that bring charges, they just give their information to the US District Attorney and then they make the decision to indict or not. I might get some clarification on this and come back to this thread with it....but I am fairly confident what I say is true, even if it's not well received. Don't get me wrong, I too know it's obvious that a Cap Anson signed ball shouldn't go for 1/50th of market price, but what can you do if people believe CC's "experts"? It's a shame people don't do their homework and then CC would be out of business and we wouldn't have to discuss their situation.