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Posted By: Tom

and I can speak from experience with Mastronet. Actually Mastro and Steinbach.......I bought a lot of all 4 T206 Cobbs when I was activly pursuing my set of T206's. They were described as Greenback (G/VG with big stain on back) and the rest as VGEX to EX and relatively clean. As not one of the 'premier' lots, they didn't have super huge photos but they all looked clean and neat. After receiving the lot, it was clear that the bat off shoulder pose was CLEARLY trimmed and should have been noted as such. The others were EXACTLY as described and actually a hair better conditioned. I called them and talked to Brian Marren I believe (maybe not, don't know now) but I told them that I didn't want to return the whole lot (and that wasn't really offered) but that I wouldn't have paid $2K for the lot if I'd known the bat off was trimmed. After discussing it, they eventually gave me like $250-$300 or so of a refund and we went on from there. I was impressed and have basically won something in every auction since (minus one or two). The Green pose graded a 3 and the other two graded 5's so I didn't do too bad anyway.........but they had a customer for life.
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