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Originally Posted by cardsagain74
There may not be a better way to do it. Who knows what went on at times, and I don't doubt that there are highly questionable "sales" of higher-end items (especially with examples like the Floyd Mayweather card that Exhibitman showed earlier).
But I'll share the one auction lot I won from them this year. Final price was at the very low end for centered PSA 9s, and it's obvious from the bid history that there was no shill bidding.
So either my auction was a rare outlier (and there is some huge boiler room concept happening where endless people frantically kept track of everything and ensure that artificially high prices are always being created), or mine is similar to countless other nice (but modest) auction items that were ok, and the focus of any shenanigans was usually on a larger scale.
I would guess the latter.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/353540601951 |
A lot of their stuff is fine. Lots of honest collectors consign to them and even some honest dealers. It's the dishonest dealer and card doctor consignments where all the BS is.
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Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 08-19-2021 at 10:42 PM.
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