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Posted By: boxingcardman

Mastro gets praise for canceling an item after the sale but Verkman gets crap for it? Seems to me that both auctioneers showed equivalent negligence in vetting the items before sale.

I do not accept that a leader in its field putting together a premiere auction at a once-a-year major trade show didn't get the letter on time from MEARS. Mastro obviously had the letter and had the time to send the jersey to the second authenticator. It was just whore-shopping for a favorable opinion. Nothing wrong with that; lawyers do it all the time in retaining experts. But let's not canonize Mastro over this incident because it sure as heck isn't a good one for them.