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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Brian:

I appreciate your input, and hope that you don't mind these questions as they are "hypothetical" and not meant to accuse:


1) As a consignor... wouldn't you benefit from a dealer or auction house who shill bids on the items for sale in their auction? I doubt the auctioneer would ever tell you he was doing this, and you as the consignor would never be harmed. In fact, you would profit and probably choose to consign with this auction house because he somehow gets consistent high results.

2) As a high end collector, wouldn't you be a perfect target for someone who "doctors" cards and then has a contact or reputation that allows him to get them slabbed in PSA holders? Won't you admit that if someone did this to a card and then sold it to you in a PSA holder, you would never know it?


I think these are the fears that all of us have.


If a person is doing either of these things...

then they can afford to be as NICE and COOPERATIVE as possible with people such as yourself. They would know that acting professional is the BEST way to deflect attention away from themself.


In other words... if you found out today that JP Cohen had sold you some PSA cards that were doctored... wouldn't your opinion of him change?

But yet you will never bust these cards out to find out (and I don't blame you as I would never do this either).