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Posted By: Dave

Luckily I haven't been taken for any money...yet. I did come close. When I first got into vintage cards I bought two 1933 Goudey cards a Dazzy Vance and a Joe Cronin. I didn't know enough about the set when I looked at the scans online. I paid $125 for both. When I got them in my hands the backs were in black letters on really white cardboard stock...looked way too fishy even for my uneducated eyes at that point. Luckily I raised enough cane with the seller that I was able to send the cards back and get my money back. I don't buy Goudey's anymore. Luckily with my passion being T206's I'm pretty confident I could spot a fake T206, now some of the other pre-war cards...I don't have that confidence as of yet. I think it can be hard to know for sure until you get any card in your hand. I've seen plenty of scans of T3's, but never held one...so I'd feel less than certain I was buying real until I got hold of a couple.