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Posted By: Ben

My understanding of the BeckettMedia name on eBay is that you can consign your cards to Beckett to sell under their name for a fee. They don't own the cards, but use their name on the auctions for marketing purposes (and obviously you pay for that). You used to not see as much BVG being pushed by them, mostly newer high-dollar cut autos and hair card garbage. But with Beckett pushing more and more BVG, I guess you'll start to see more of it.

Personally, I still think it's a bad idea. Even if they don't own it, they are still profiting off an item they graded, giving them the incentive to grade it higher. Which, at best, gives the appearance of impropriety. Though Beckett has made it repeatedly clear recently with all they've done on their website that they really don't care what anyone has to say.

(I usually just read your fantastic site but thought I'd chime in here to help clear this up.)