There are many people in the hobby who are knowledgable about what they are selling.
If collectors would stick with sellers who know what they are doing, and stop placing authenticators on a pedastal, many of these problems would be solved.
The proliferation of scummy sellers on ebay of course does not help the hobby and has helped the TPA business.
But in the "old days" before TPA a collector could ask a knowledgable dealer, that he did business with, for his opinion on a particular item and the dealer would gladly try to help out that collector. I would do that all the time.
I kinda long for those days now.
Travis you are so right about this - "Credo to follow is: -- Get opinions before you buy, not after."
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Last edited by RichardSimon; 01-03-2012 at 10:51 AM.
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