Cards still being outed on Blowout -- PSA 9 Monte Irvin in the recent ML

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Nicolo -- i am saying this candidly and not to upset you, but if you have been buying this type of high grade material from the same and similar auction houses, or from anyone really because cards get moved along, the odds are pretty good that this is not your only altered card. Altered high grade cards are prevalent in the hobby, some of the superstar doctors have been at this for decades. Blowout is great but as someone mentioned they probably have outed a very tiny fraction of the altered cards out there.
The philosophical question for you is, can you live with what you don't know, or is that likelihood enough to ruin things for you even if nobody has specifically outed the card. As I've said it's a question of tolerance and only you can make that judgment.

Totally understand.

And the answer to your question about tolerance is: I don't know. It still stings, and not just a little. I'd prefer not to experience death by a thousand cuts as each card in my collection is outed over the next 10 years, which would be extreme, but not an impossibility.

Obviously just knowing that I have one bad apple casts doubt about everything else I have in my collection. At the same time, I'm so far in that it's tough to imagine just bailing and getting out. But maybe I'll have to think about some middle ground. Just not sure what that looks like other than I'm probably going to be really gun shy about buying high grade stuff going forward.