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I would think that by PSA keeping the submission fee that the sumittor would be entitled to at least a one sentance description as to why their item was rejected.
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Talk about a conflict of interest....
The guy Steve is the head pack grader, but he sells the most wax in the country through his own store.. How can PSA allow this? I thought when they become a grader, they have to sell their entire collections (or not be an auction house) which he essentially is.. Never liked this set up and it seems like a MAJOR conflict of interest... Last edited by CaramelMan; 10-26-2013 at 06:59 AM. Reason: Spelling |
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Just to make everyone aware, Steve DOES NOT grade any packs. PSA ships the packs to Steve and Steve ONLY authenticates them. He ships back to PSA and PSA assigns a grade to them. I agree the logistics is not great but Steve and his team are the foremost experts on un-opened material. Mark |
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Yes, that is true, he does not grade packs, he only authenticates them. However, it is, at least to me, still a conflict of interest if he is authenticating his own packs for PSA to grade. I've heard nothing but good things about Steve and I'm sure he is a man of high integrity, but the door is open for fraud to occur if no one is checking him. There have been many dealers in our hobby with what we perceived at one time as having high integrity and look where they are now. Does PSA allow other dealers to authenticate their own cards and PSA only assign a number grade to them, or does PSA do both the authenticating and grading? I'm pretty sure they authenticate and grade, no matter the submitter. I'm not sure why packs should be any different. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Edited to add: To put it another way, if I sent PSA/DNA an autographed baseball that was already authenticated through JSA and I only wanted them to grade it, would they do that or do you think hey would want to re-authenticate it as well? Sure they would. Again, not sure why packs are any different and why Steve gets to authenticate his own stuff for grading. Last edited by vintagetoppsguy; 10-26-2013 at 08:08 PM. |
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For full disclosure, I don't have any graded packs in my collection and I don't think I have ever bought something from Steve. DJ
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I will repeat it, Steve does not grade packs. He authenticates them as original and unopened. PSA's minions grade the packs.
Also, as a long time customer of Steve's, I can say with confidence that there is zero conflict of interest as his integrity is greater than the Pope's. I have even seen him eat the cost of a few boxes that were in the $1500+ range because the cards inside the packs were ruined by gum. No one else in this industry would do that. All dealers would tell you it's a gamble when opening old packs. |
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Exactly. Thanks Conor, that is my point. I'm not a pack guy so I do not possess the greatest ability to understand exactly what "altered" means so it would have been the right thing to do to tell how it is supposed to be altered.
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