well, if that's what he posted in his sales thread I stand corrected. That certainly looks like a PGX graded book to me.
Well to be honest it is not what he posted. He cropped all the sides of the picture to hide the label and the bottom posts of slab.
hmmm.. so let me get this straight.
He engaged in a sales thread in which the rules state no PGX books are to be offered.
He posted a picture of the book in which he cropped all the sides of the picture to (presumably) hide the label and the bottom posts of slab.
He never mentioned that the book was PGX graded.
I'm pretty sure I know what the reality was here, and I might characterize what he did as foolish, but it's way out of bounds to call him dishonest. Especially when the circumstances give him plausible denial.
What circumstances? You are the only one that is having problems with the definition of the word "raw". Reminds me of Clinton having problems with the definition of the word "is".
For all you know he has deslabbed the books and the buyer would have received them in mylar (that's what I would have done if I had a PGX book I wanted to sell). He may have been too lazy to rescan the deslabbed book and just decided to crop the scan he had. I don't think this is the case, and I think he miscalculated his whole approach here (personally, if he thought someone would figure the book was PGX slabbed and ascribe better value, he's wrong). My point here and the one I made in CG (where you gleefully joined the circle jerk), is that I don't think he was necesarrily violating the rule the way he was selling,
And again, you appear to be the only one making that argument. What part of NO PGX BOOKS FOR SALE ON THE CGC BOARD is hard to understand?
and the rules need to be little more specific and clarify how one needs to offer books to eliminate any ambiguity as to whether they are offering a PGX book.
The rule is clear, Phil has run up against this rule in the past apparently.