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Originally Posted by jayshum
Because I didn't think it was altered and expected a numerical grade, but after they blew it the first time, why pay them to do it again?
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So I guess that's my point on why it's not ethical.
You send in a card hoping to get a high grade as the original OP reads. Getting a high grade would be a small fortune.
You send it in and it comes back altered. And your devasted, because there goes your small fortune and now it probably will sell less than you actually paid for it.
But you're saying the TPG are wrong all the time. You can crack it, resend it in and hope it grades. It is a small fortune of course. Why wouldn't you?
But instead, your saying, I don't want to send it in. They got it wrong. Why give them more money. Well, your throwing your chances of a small fortune away. Obliviously a high grade sells much more than raw. And if they are always wrong and you know it's not altered, there shouldn't be any problem resending it in. Or sending it to another TPG.
But instead, you crack it and sell it raw. Well that tells me you don't have confidence that they are wrong. It also tells me you want to at least make your money back on what you bought it for. Because again, if you mention it was altered, which is the moral thing to do, you would be selling it for a lot less than what you bought it for.
So saying it is altered is off the table, because why should I put it in there, TPGs are always wrong, but I don't want to resubmit it again because even though they are always wrong and I could get a small fortune for it, I would rather sell it raw, not disclose it was deemed altered and try to pull one over on a guy buying it, who, who knows, could be new person into the hobby, Not knowing much about vintage cards. Sees a nice example and buys it. Sends it in and it comes back altered again. Now this new person in the hobby has a sour taste in his mouth about this hobby.
That is why it is unethical.