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Posted By: Paul S

Peter,

I'd buy the card and keep it in the holder. As intimated in my above post, I'm not a purist -- just hasn't happened. I imagine it is inevitable it will happen. I don't forsee it in the near future as I haven't been buying much that's pricey in awhile.

You of course have no way of knowing, but the bulk of my collection I acquired before the grading companies came along. I'd like to think I'm good at spotting fakes because I've handled and still handle raws for such a long time. But as you do know, the scammers keep getting more sophisicated (except the ones who always seem to have the "wolf at the door" ) and so I would prefer grading as a good safeguard (usually, it seems), and one can't really handle a card that he/she sees on the internet.