[DrMitchJ]

This is crazy stuff man. I agree that graded stuff is the only way to go, especially with high end rookies and vintage. It wont be long before those "honest" listings will "accidentally" leave out the reprint word...

On another note, the "digital card" listings on ebay are annoying as hell. Who collects those things anyway? Maybe I'm old school but I want to collect a card that I can actually hold and touch. Or that a player might have held at one point in time. To me digital cards are alot like capturing pokemon or whatever. Spend all this time and money on something for what? A picture of something that doesnt actually exist, idk, I need more coffee.

Couldn't agree more with you on both points.
Like I said, eventually these forgeries/reprints will make it into a private collection with the buyer knowing full well it's a forgery, but it looks nice on the shelf. Unfortunately and eventually all collectors will go to meet their maker, and the heirs to those collections will unwittingly sell them off, innocently thinking them real. That will perpetuate until someone someday gets it graded and learns that it's a piece of garbage, but at that point, who is to blame?

I have acquired a ton of digital cards playing Topps Bunt game over the years. I never spent a cent on them, only cost me my time (and my dignity LOL) and would NEVER think to sell an image of a card. I find the listings on eBay annoying and at times perhaps a little deceitful? I have so many digital 'auto' cards which makes me laugh to think that they are more valuable than 'unsigned' digital cards ... if anyone truly thinks that, then I have a Bridge in Brooklyn that I'd love to sell to them ... cheap!
The common value in the cardboard and digital card, in a very small sense, is the actual photographic image of the player, but the printed image has an ephemeral value while the digital images are ethereal.