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Posted By: Mark Anderson

Bobby - are you saying VCP gets no financial gain from advertising on your home page to direct consignors to your partner, Just Collect, to sell their vintage graded cards?

If you get nothing in return, then your point may be valid. If not, would you not consider yourself to be in violation of a conflict of interest by selling pricing information on vintage graded cards and then also earned a commission by selling the same vintage graded cards?

In addition, would it not be questionable for an 'unbiased price guide' to post inflammatory and opinionated remarks about a current auction that could directly interfere with the realized price (based on your opinions of a card you have never seen in person), and will then be taken into account in your pricing? It undermines Beckett as a competitor to your price guide, as a competitor to your auction partner, and potentially undermines the valuation of two very key BVG cards, does it not? Let's be fair here.