[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Keith H. Thompson

"something like this is never getting by a Tpg" I'm still standing in awe over a business model where we collectors hand over large sums of money and a piece of cardboard to a clerk at the TPA. It then disappears behind presumably closed doors and a few grown men and boys decide how much it it is worth. And we can do it over and over again until we get it "right." Right ?

At its heart it's a brilliant business model because it facilitates signt unseen purchases by purporting to objectify/standardize both authenticity and condition of a collectible with no inherent value. That said, it's become corrupted by basic human dishonesty.