Mastronet, I may be wrong here but let's here opinions??

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Posted By: JK

Leon,

I completely disagree with you about Pete's condescending comment about this board. It was rude, insulting and unprofessional. I would usually classify the "whining" on this board as legitimate criticism - only the target, be it psa, mastro or some other hobby entity, is likely to deem it "whining".

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With respect to mastro getting more questions about low grade lots - well that only makes sense as there is far more inconsistency in the grading at that level. Pete's complaint about the number of questions received on low grade lots sounds to me to be more a statement about the importance mastro places on such lots and their purchasers as compared to high grade expensive lots. Sure sucks being an armpit collector.


My personal recommendation - you need to ask for front and back scans for any lower to mid grade lot offered by mastro since their pictures are usually pretty small and descriptions vague. I won a group of e93s along with some partners not too long ago. All were graded by psa between about 2 and 5. mastro did note in their description that some cards had small amounts of paperloss but otherwise presented nicely - nothing specific about individual cards since they were all graded. The scans were too small to see smaller spots of paperloss on the reverses. Of course, you would have thought the cards with paperloss would be confined to the lower grades. As it turns out, the paperloss wasnt confined to the lower grade cards - 3s, 4s and 5s had spots of paperloss as well.