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itsawonderfullifeitsawonderfullife Posts: 43
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This is something that I had some involvement in last year. Warning: it's long and you need Adobe, but it's worth reading, and reinforces the role of graded cards in the hobby.

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ginger/research/Internet-Fraud-112202.pdf

It's a Wonderful Life!

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  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭
    Nicely done. I'm only through 3 pages but I have it bookmarked for when I have a some free time. It's nice to see a serious academic paper on a subject so near to us. I did a 35-page marketing paper on BGS when I was in business school, maybe I should upload that.

    Joe
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • natetrooknatetrook Posts: 613 ✭✭✭
    No wonder I kept getting outbid...
  • BigKidAtHeartBigKidAtHeart Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    linked version for those of us too lazy to cut and paste...
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    http://www.glue.umd.edu/~ginger/research/Internet-Fraud-112202.pdf
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  • braves72078braves72078 Posts: 465 ✭✭


    << <i>Nicely done. I'm only through 3 pages but I have it bookmarked for when I have a some free time. It's nice to see a serious academic paper on a subject so near to us. I did a 35-page marketing paper on BGS when I was in business school, maybe I should upload that.

    Joe >>



    Joe,

    I would like to read your paper if possible.

    Braves
  • The53KidThe53Kid Posts: 189
    Alright! These guys represent both my colleges.....Univ of Maryland and Johns Hopkins!
    Looking for:
    1953 Topps in PSA 8
    1941 Playball in PSA 8.
    1952-1955 Red Man cards in 7 and 8
    1950 Bowman in PSA 8
  • anjcollectionanjcollection Posts: 213
    Very, very cool stuff indeed!
  • GoSoxBoSoxGoSoxBoSox Posts: 1,103
    Great post!! Now we need people who aren't into graded cards to read this.
    There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"
  • toppsguntoppsgun Posts: 787 ✭

    Wow, these guys spent 52 pages, untold hundreds, if not thousands of dollars and an entire year pursuing a phD-type paper to tell us, among other things:

    1. Internet bidding prices are affected by the hype of a seller.
    2. Graded cards sell for more than ungraded cards.
    3. Beckett is a more desireable grading service for modern cards.
    4. Buyers of modern cards eschew anything graded less than near mint.
    5. Ripoffs occur in online auctions.

    Altogether, now....Duh!!!!!

    Yeah, but what about the trimmed cards that slip through.
    And where is the mention of the WIWAGers that we've all heard so much, yet so little about.
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