Not defending Koos or the Mantle, but-

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Posted By: Brueso

"Remember that the real villains here are PRO, the grading service for those who professional grading is supposed to protect us against, and the guy who had the bright idea of having PRO grade that abortion, so he could sell it to someone who didn't understand that a PRO slab is no protection, rather, it is the opposite."

Bruce- I agree the person who had PRO slab the card was a villain, but frankly, I don't see any difference between what he did and what "Doctor" Koos now is doing. Even if he's trying to assess what the card would sell for given it's in a PRO holder, the results of that experiment are faulty. If you were buying the card and heard later that the seller said it was garbage and anyone who bought it was an unsuspecting dolt, would you be satisfied? And this "well, maybe he won't allow the sale to be completed" is crap, too. I don't care who the seller is- if you put something out there on E-bay, I think you should have to stick to it and sell it (unless you make a mistake like putting a reserve price down as a buy it now price). Koos has already demonstrated (bragged even) that he doesn't give a crap whether a "temporary" auction screws with anyone else's collecting action because he does what he does for his own benefit (that's right, Doc- they're "only rules")- but I am completely contemptuous of anyone who uses something like E-bay as a vehicle to get some attention for their product and then pull it before auction's close.

How could a temporary auction screw with someone's budget? What if you have something like $8,000 and an auction like this pops up and you bid on it, then something else you are interested in pops up and it is going for the same amount- and you don't bid on the second because you've already bid on the first. Yeah, I don't expect Koos to give a crap about something like that because since he has been screwed over by someone else, he now feels he has free reign to screw over the next "unsuspecting dolt".