Fake 52 Mantle- Maybe you can educate me.

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$200 is small potatoes, back when I wrote the guide originally, people were being taken for thousands a crack left and right and eBay didn't do anything about it. It was a scammers paradise. Subsequently, they have cleaned most of it up.

That's not even a good attempt at a fake. The newest fakes are so good that you could only tell them apart when you have them in your presence to examine them. And a lot of them are finding their way into phony slabs too that have been cracked and resealed with a fake flip (but real cert. numbers) as well. The card is now virtually untouchable except from trusted legitimate sellers. Buying a raw one online is never going to happen, 100% of those listings are frauds.