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This is not a penalty that should remain beyond death imo. Easy vote to remove for me.

Zod would recognize and kneel before KANG!

Wait... is this another Kang variant??

Anime Klang variant!

This isn't a court of law, we all know the court of public opinion isn't innocent until proven guilty. He is by no means required to provide them but if everything is legit as he claims then he should provide them to restore confidence.

Well if he submits like normal like everyone else, we should be able to see all his submission forms then with fees. That would clear up a good chunk.

I long for a world where we no longer discriminate against messes based on their temperature readings. Cold messes are messes too and deserve their truth to be heard and accepted! 😎

For those wondering if the FTC is going to look at this, they apparently have their hands full with a much more pressing issue!

I'd say 20 mil is "set for life".

Theres a whole lot of smoke around this for there to be no fire. Having a little knowledge of actual behind the scenes journalism from a close friend in it a long time, I can almost promise you that several independent investigations are currently ongoing at multiple news agencies and they aren't limiting themselves to Heritage and WATA. I'd love to see the communications of those involved over the last week or so. Maybe we will at some point... 🙂

I'm sorry but are you saying Seth Abramson isn't a credible source? This is beyond a youtuber and leads me to think you haven't read the latest article that lays out just a couple of his many credentials as well as gives some of his credibility specifically in the sealed and graded video game market.

Well that is certainly damning.

The point would be acknowledging and addressing the issue, disclosing the steps they are taking to correct them, and restore some confidence in the customer base.

This is a great question. The victim here, if there was premeditated collusion towards market manipulation (yeah a big if), is the average citizen who was never part of the collectible video game market before, saw one or more of the articles on the explosion of value, and decided to buy into it for a few thousand dollars worth because, hey, it's on CNN/Fox/etc so they must have researched it. Without the (assumed) manipulation and broadcast of that propaganda, they would have never considered investing in that market. The only question that would remain in that scenario is how much responsibility do they bear for just investing from a news article and not doing full due diligence? 100%? And if it's not 100%, then you are into an area with potential legal and/or civil consequences for the parties involved.

I would just ship it media mail.

Symbiote Spiderman 3 with some issue of Xforce in the middle half:

I agree that everyone has been doing it and Heritage isn't unique to anonymous wins, but given the information coming out, the market now seems primed for any auction house, but especially Heritage since they are named, to come forward with a new business model and say full transparency from now on with all wins. I know I would be dealing exclusively with any auction house that did that now and I would bet my collection that I would be among many others who would do so as well. They might lose one or two people who like selling anonymous but it would be a small minority I think. Also credit where it is due to you also, Bronty. Many would have went silent but you are out here providing credible and important information to what went on and I appreciate it.

So Heritage and WATA are both in full deny mode, not that I would expect anything different regardless of guilt, but if they are denying everything, does that mean they are going to release a population report and start revealing who wins auctions? Seems like that's the easiest way to disprove everything and restore some confidence.

Making your way in the worlds today, Takes everything you got! Taking a breath from all your worries, Sure would help a lot! Wouldn't you like to get away... Sometimes you wanna go... Where everybody knows you're Kaaannnggg! And their always glad you raannnnggggg...

Columbo can ask Krang one more question if he wants!