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Posted By: AParks

I would like to thank everyone for responding to this thread as I tried to get opinions on this scenario in an effort to learn how to do things better in the future and how to avoid this type of situation. I did many things incorrectly, it sounds like, and I now have some rules that I need to take more seriously:

1) Stay away from short cards.
2) Do the homework on the card I want to bid on before I bid.
3) Look at, study and observe an unslabbed card the day it arrives if purchased in an auction.
4) Read the fine print of a seller's rules before I bid and expect to follow them.
5) Do not put ALL accountability on the grading companies.

I learned a great deal from this situation and from talking to some of you in private and in e-mail; it sounds that some of you would not be at all disappointed to receive the card I received for the price I paid. Thanks again.