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Old Aug 19, 2010 | 11:21 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
I'm guessing they are Type B and cannot be used online. Quite annoying, really.

Annoying indeed. But I'll take a UA $400 paper VDB over one a chintzy CO $150 VDB e-cert any day.

Which makes me wonder, perhaps the paper allows UA to be more generous with VDB compensation if there's higher breakage.
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