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I'll fess up to scanning the reverse in two cases:

1 - Vintage card

2 - Serial numbered on reverse card

When I'm buying, if it's a newer card, I'm assuming it's mint. Vintage, I want to see the back too, so selling, that's what I do. So we only scan backs if it is pertinent.

 I used to always get peeved at shipping costs, then I looked up how much it actually costs to ship a retail box from Georgia to Michigan.  Yikes.  Maybe I wasn't getting ripped off, by the seller at least.  

 Depends on your view of "ripped off," Howintensive.  I usually sell with free shipping.  I get higher bids to make up for it.  But there's really no excuse to charge more than the $5.80 the post office charges for one of its priority mail boxes.  They hold about 400 cards.  Unless you want to consider it to be "handling" charges.  That's where I'm a good person to buy from, because, really, I find the whole EBay selling thing fun, so I don't charge for my efforts.  It's part of the hobby now. 

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Very true!  I often am pretty generous in the trade/selling market (although I don't sell much, I prefer trading).  I mostly do this because this is a luck-driven hobby, and maybe some generousness could give me some "good karma" for when I open my next pack.  I don't know if any of you think this way, but it can't hurt. I think it's honesty and integrity that makes the card-collecting community so great (at least on this site).

Captkirk42 hit it right on the head as well. I won an auction a couple weeks ago from Canada, $4 shipping. I figured that's not bad for Canada. It gets here in the plainest of white envelopes. The card was not priced due to scarcity, and I basically stole this card at what I paid for it. Luckily it wasn't damaged......but $4 for an envelope?? At least if they gave me the option of upgrading and paying for it I would have, but I figured $4 was more than enough for a bubble mailer. Some people just don't care I guess!

@Howintensive: Honesty and generosity IS truly what makes the card collecting hobby a fun activity.

 ....and I know it's picky and maybe unfair, but when you advertise "Nolan Ryan" I expect an actual Ryan card, not him just pictured on a Leaders card or World Seties card.

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 ....and another dude asking $200 for $20 worth of cards and a guy who advertised a very valuable card he wasn't even selling just to get viewers. Grrrrrr. 

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A frustration I have is when someone advertises team sets yet when the set arrives a card or two is missing.  Not leader cards or rookie cards with multiple teams per card, I'm talking about standard single player cards that should be a part of any team set.  So then I'm left to decide if I should complain or if I should just suck it up and try to find the missing card(s) elsewhere.  Either way it's frustrating.  The reason I buy a team set is so I don't have to go through the effort of buying the cards individually. 

@Kirk (I feel like I'm talking to myself now),

I've experienced the one or two missing cards from a set as well, not often because I learned to try to read the descriptions better, and look around for checklists to see what they say a "team set" should be. Part of the problem is many sellers will say "Set" when they actually mean a "Lot". Selling a 5 card team lot from a team that has 12 cards in that particular year/set is NOT a Team "Set" it is a "Lot" . The sad fact is most "sellers" do not know their product well enough. Most of them are either collectors trying to sell what they don't need/want or resellers who are trying to cash in on a quick "flip".

@Vvvergeer,

I have seen many of these "grab bag" auctions usually of 100 cards that will show and mention several valuable cards just to get viewers. All their auctions say the same damn thing and show the same pictures of cards "you COULD get" in these card lots. These include some of those "unopened" packs auctions.