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Posted By: Anthony S.

I don't think the question is whether the cards they sell are real, or whether they ship promptly, or package the cards diligently. It's pretty apparent they're fine on all those counts.

The question is why do they choose private auctions over public auctions. When someone runs a private auction, they remove all transparency. Obviously, it suggests that just maybe they have a compelling reason to prevent bidders from seeing who else is bidding on the card. Now, maybe they do, maybe they don't, but they're hiding information from the bidder. The bidder can never truly know whether the auction was shilled or not. Perfect feedback becomes irrelevant at that point, because the only things the buyers truly know are that they received the card promptly, it's real, and it was packaged well.

Now knowing all that, when you find out the seller's name, not the company's name, mind you, but the individual who you are actually sending the check (paypal, whatever) to, and you run a search on that name, and that search reveals that that seller has engaged in deception before (albeit in a different capacity), wouldn't their choice of running exclusively private auctions give you pause?