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Originally Posted by auctionjmm
Are you saying that private sales of sports cards shouldn't be allowed? How would you handle card shows? Require dealers to report every sale to some authority that publicizes the information like a stock exchange? That seems excessive and still doesnt stop someone from selling privately. Every stock that is sold is tracked from inception. In order to do something similar with cards, you'd have to re-start the whole industry from scratch and have the manufacturers put tracking numbers on every single card that is packed out. Of course, this would create problems with randomness since now they'd have to know which specific boxes each card was packed into and if a 13 year old bought that box, you'd have to rely on the 13 year old to "report" that he pulled it and if he sells it, "report" the sale. And the dealer receiving it would "report" on his end....the longer I type, the more ridiculous this sounds.
Sorry to break it to you, but that personal check isn't your business after all. You simply can't regulate that.
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This is exactly what I mean when I say people don't actually understand the implications of the thing they think they want.
It would be absurd to regulate cards in this way because they're not financial instruments and nobody wants them to be treated as such.
No other collectible market on earth is treated this way so why would sports cards be different.
The people here, with the exception of Nat and maybe a select few others, aren't even in the types of markets they're so upset with. Why should you or any of us care what Shyne claims to have paid for a card? It doesn't many even a slight difference on anything here. If you do have the means to be in these markets and are upset about it use your money to lobby. (We know nobody is going to)
If there is fraud and shilling and other illegal activity it should be investigated through the already established processes