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Posted By: Todd Schultz

Dear Mr. Barokas,

Please allow a couple of questions from a luddite, a term I'm sure you employed in its most complimentary form, as you wouldn't want to get personal. If a buyer specifically asks you in one of your auctions whether you have done anything to the card and if so what; i.e., if it is clear from the question that the potential buyer wants to know this information, do you believe you have an obligation to answer? You wouldn't want to be dishonest, right? You wouldn't consider his question immaterial and not deserving of full and truthful response, just because a grading company gives it a "tier 1" label, would you? You would tell him, hypotheticaly, that since you've owned the card, you;ve done x,y, or z to the card, wouldn't you?