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DavidI like good deals, but don't take advantage of ignorant sellers. In most cases, the ignorant are trying to sell their 1961 Fleer Honus Wagner for $10,000 not 25 cents-- so your scenario is rare in my personal experience.
In collecting and authenticity issues, too many people use ignorance as an excuse to find someone else to blame. As Ross Peroit would say, "That dog won't hunt." I do beleive the knowledgeable should act ethically. But if a collector chooses not to do any homework there's nothing I nor anyone else can do. I don't have any legal power to make people learn, they have choose to do it on their own.