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Originally Posted by premiercardcollectors
If we all shrug and say �it is what it is,� allowing bad actors to flourish, then we ultimately get the society we deserve.
Enough people have to get fed up.
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Part of the issue is I'm living through my 4th decade of bad actors getting in trouble and cruising right back into the hobby. Some go to prison, some pay fines, and many have nothing happen to them.
They rarely sneak back into the hobby under the radar or hide behind business paperwork. They tend to not really care that their name is out there in the public for the hobby to see.
If there's going to be people getting fed up, I'm down for the self-policing, but I'm yet to see the numbers actually stick around and follow through. When someone gets weak enough for their auctions to suffer, people swoop in and before long they're right back on a level playing field with the good actors. After missing out on more than a few periods of good deals over a moral failing that will not be punished by the hobby, I figured why should I miss out...
That said, some of these decades-long serial crooks are going to have to deal with a oddly internet savvy and a modern hustle-culture heavy group of people...TCG/Pokemon collectors do not totally share the same mindset and morals of traditional card collectors. Pissing those guys off might lead to some things they're not expecting.