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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Maybe what you need, Jim, is a new forum... one for slabbed cards, or for slabbed card collectors, or something. I suspect that a lot of the folks that look at these slabbed threads could care less, and a few actually find these threads a pain. Seems much ado about nothing to me.

What collectors need to focus on is learning about the cards they collect, so they themselves can ascertain authenticity and a lack of tampering (if important to them), then buy cards only if there is a return policy. This nonsense of "no returns on graded cards" is a way to hide behind what some slabber has done. Threads about learning about the cards would apply to all here.

Until a few months ago I didn't even know what an SMR was, and I don't care even now... but I did know who Jerry Upp was, which Lelivelt was depicted on E254 and who the other one was, knew about Bull Durham's 2 families, knew the pitchers McGraw got out of Indianapolis, knew who in T206 went to Ty Cobb's funeral, knew who Sleepy Burns was, and knew about the numbers and increasing scarcity on T222 cards. THAT is the stuff for threads, at least it is for me.