Okay, help me understand this

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Posted By: Bruce Moreland

This is the reason I asked if it is legal to sell a bad card.

It is not legal to try to knowingly sell a bad Ruth ball. I assume that it is not legal to knowingly sell a counterfeit card.

I don't know if it is legal to sell a card that has been altered, without stating that it has been altered. I used trimming as an example of an alteration that everyone is familiar with, but perhaps trimming is too subtle.

In any case, the question was not rhetorical.

That really is a '52 Topps #311 Mantle in there, assuming that nobody is going to claim that it's a reprint or an outright counterfeit. It really was graded 8.0 by PRO, for what that is worth (less than nothing).

Assuming that the card is altered, why am I asking if it is legal to sell this card?

If it is legal (albeit extremely nasty) to sell the card, then it must be legal (and perhaps not really nasty at all) to run a test auction for the same card.

If it is illegal to sell this card, then are essentially all PRO auctions illegal acts?

Once again, these are not rhetorical questions, nor are they indications of my future business plans.

bruce