Terribly unethical practice on eBay???

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Posted By: DRY

Hi all,

I am just wondering for your thoughts on a practice on eBay that seems to be more and more prevalent. It involves people buying nice looking vintage PSA 5s and 6s cards (50s-era Mantles, star cards, etc.), cracking open the slaps, and selling these cards raw as pristine cards for sale.

I am really upset at this practice, especially because it is so deceitful. This is especially true when they say "hi grade" and are able to offer a money back guarantee of the cards being untrimmed and unaltered.

Here is the perfect example of a seller who does this:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZsteveandmary1971QQssPag eNameZSTRKQ3aMEFSQ3aMESOI>

Here is a graded card they bought:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=55922&item=5243571256

and here's the same card cracked out of the holder for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8733441433

Please let me know if you are as upset about this as I am.