PSA Response from President Steve Sloan

Peter_Spaeth · #1 06-05-2019, 09:55 PM

I can just imagine calling a big AH and saying I won a card from you 5 years ago that I would now like to return for a refund because I suspect it's altered. Or even better, a small ebay seller. The statement is obnoxious, in my view.

steve B · #2 06-05-2019, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I can just imagine calling a big AH and saying I won a card from you 5 years ago that I would now like to return for a refund because I suspect it's altered. Or even better, a small ebay seller. The statement is obnoxious, in my view.

From what I've been given to understand, in both stamps and coins, the good dealers have an unstated lifetime warranty. I've never heard it said openly, but everyone I've talked about the business end with has told me that taking back mistakes, even if they're very old mistakes is just what's done.

When I was running the bicycle shop I do some work for, I essentially took the same view. I know my own work, and while we had a stated warranty of I think 90 days when I got a bike in that I'd worked on that wasn't really right, and that I could tell hadn't been ridden much in about 2 years, I fixed it free. New tires had been part of the original repair, and the little rubber bits from the mold venting hadn't even worn off.
Talk about a surprised and happy customer.

Bigdaddy · #3 06-05-2019, 10:21 PM

PSA is doing everything they can to:

Limit their liability for their own mistakes
Maintain their brand reputation as the preferred TPG
Not have the hobby go the way of stamps

They are digging in and denying accountability. Maybe they are preparing for a run in politics.

That is all.

steve B · #4 06-06-2019, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

PSA is doing everything they can to:

Limit their liability for their own mistakes
Maintain their brand reputation as the preferred TPG
Not have the hobby go the way of stamps

They are digging in and denying accountability. Maybe they are preparing for a run in politics.

That is all.

Not have the hobby go the way of stamps....

So you don't want to have three authenticating/grading companies that are right nearly every time, plus at least one specialized one? And that's just in the US.

You'd rather have one big grading company, one somewhere in the middle and one small one all of them getting things wrong regularly? Especially the largest?
Might I recommend the PSA board. They have plenty of sand to put your head under.

Stamps are doing just fine, especially the older ones and China.

mybestbretts · #5 06-06-2019, 09:24 AM

It would appear to me after my recent incounter with PSA that maybe PSA
really doesn't know what a trimmed card is and should not be in the business of grading cards

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