Graded magazine cut-outs

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Posted By: Rob M (ramram) 

I'm not a fan of graded cards in the first place but the grading of magazine cut-outs just continues to blow my mind. I've seen these on ebay for a long time but figured nobody in their right mind really bid on them. Tonight I looked at a few and noticed that some fools actually do buy them. After reading the seller's feedback it's obvious there are still plenty of suckers in the world (no comment necessary Hankron) as some didn't even realize what they were bidding on. The flip side of the story - how can any company actually grade these cut-outs and expect to be consider anything more than a comedy show? I suppose the next thing to show up will be a company that specializes in cutting out the pictures ("our cuts will be so straight that we guarantee your item will grade NrMt!"). Anyway, the auction below was kind of the icing on the cake. Notice the guy runs Private Auctions so nobody will tip-off the idiots.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31718&item=2769055351