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Originally Posted by 70ToppsFanatic
Your own expert confirms what I said. This is all speculation based on what we’ve heard and nobody really knows for sure.
The only things we know for sure are:
1) unfortunately the number of doctored items in slabs is greater than zero
2) in all likelihood we will never be able to identify every tainted item
3) in all likelihood it will not be possible to prevent additional doctored items from making it into slabs because as the TPGs get better so do the scammers.
What we also know is that the creation and growth of TPGs has made the situation a lot better than it otherwise would have been, and that the TPGs seem to be committed to continuing to try and continually improve.
I’d like to see all of the innocent collectors affected in this latest “outbreak” spared from harm. I’d also like to see this latest outbreak contained so that it doesn’t spread and hurt other innocent collectors. The one thing I am confident of is that whipping up an angry mob to go after the one stakeholder that has the greatest potential to make things better for everyone, especially when there is no evidence that they were involved in nefarious actions or doing anything underhanded, seems like a bad idea to me.
The defense rests.
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Response:
1. I do not say PSA is doing anything underhanded from a criminal perspective. There have been allegations made, but until somebody offers proof, they are just allegations and PSA is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
2. Some of the alterations that have gotten through are so blatant that they are indicative of gross negligence/recklessness. The argument they represent only a small percentage of the cards PSA grade each year is irrelevant. Tell that to the person who plucked down a 4 figure sum to have a card graded, only to find his 5 or 6 figure purchase made in reliance on that evaluation missed the alteration. If a car was made with a manufacturing defect that only 1% of the cars on the road would manifest the problem, there would still be a recall.
3. Truth in advertising. Don't say your product is something you know it is not. A cursory visual inspection WILL NOT detect an expertly done alteration, which alterations you and everybody else should know are being done as we speak by card doctors incentivized by the staggering profits they are making.
4. Simple common sense. How the hell can a tobacco card over a century old have survived in mint or gem mint condition? Yes, I get it that there are the once in a decade finds of vintage uncirculated cards. But that is not what I am talking about.
06-07-2019, 11:58 AM
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