Thanks guys for your responses. the ones i had that faded like this I bought at card shows and card shops so your right, before i bought them the sellers probably kept them in their card shop cases 8 hrs a day in daylight and under fluorescent lighting and at card shows out all day on their table in the daylight, so that might be why they faded. once i got my cards i kept them out of light, but your right we never know how the people e bought them from stored them(light, moisture, humidity, etc) come to think of it, cards that i got from packs and send for ttm requests still look good, its only the autographs i bought on ebay, card shows and card shops that are fading.have faded (cards that other people owned that im unsure how they stored/displayed them) so that might have solved this mystery of fading autographs. i notice them more with factory certified autographs. with regular cards ive noticed the sharpie bleeds into the card over time causing a "halo" or ring effect.
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