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Posted By: <b>Hagar Henderson</b><p>I ordered some commons from deanscards.com without seeing scans of the cards. I figured I would end up returning half of them due to over grading. Much to my delight, I found the cards were very conservatively graded and some were undergraded. His ex/mt cards looked near mint to me. Dean has a wide variety of cards in his inventory. Anyway, I thought I'd give him some props because it's good to see a reliable alternative to E-bay.

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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p>Were these pre war cards?<br /><br />sounds like you found a great place.<br /><br /><br />Steve

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Posted By: <b>TFerg</b><p>My wife bought a card for me from there(as a surprise), she said they were very accomodating and helpful. The card is probably EX, she refused to tell me the price she paid so I can't tell you if it was a good deal or not. But I guess the service was very good.

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>If that is indeed your true birth name, I must salute your parents' sense of humor. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> I love the moniker! It ranks second fiddle only to that of "midwestsportsbuffet", which conjures up images of some odd, Sizzler-like eatery featuring all-you-can-eat Cuno Barragan.

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Posted By: <b>TFerg</b><p>The screenname is from a pro football Net54 forum, I just haven't made a new one for here as I don't post much. I collect 50's - 80's Baseball (I have a few 33 Goudeys) but I like the information on all the pre-war stuff. I read the threads here in an attempt to learn about those cards. There seems to be a very interesting cast of characters here.

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Posted By: <b>Hagar Henderson</b><p>Steve, my purchase wasn't pre-war but they do stock pre-war. Dean doesn't seem to restrict his inventory to one special area. I think that's a good thing too. You can get some T-206's and pick up some packs of shiny stuff at the same place.

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Posted By: <b>pas</b><p>Dunno about this.<br /><br />Dean's Cards tends to use GAI to grade most of our lower priced graded cards because of better service and lower cost. In my opinion, GAI has a much more consistent product. The "downside" to GAI is that they tend to grade a half to a full grade harder than PSA. <br /><br />GAI is particularly tough on pre-war cards, whereas PSA and the other companies tend to relax their standards just a bit for these older cards. Quite often our customers will buy a card graded by GAI, remove it from the case, submit it to PSA and receive a grade that is a half-grade to full grade higher than the grade given by GAI. <br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Turd Ferguson was a name used in an SNL Jeopardy Sketch.

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Posted By: <b>TFerg</b><p>Dan is correct, my real name is Gene (not quite as catchy as Turd by any means).