41 Playball Joe D on EBay BVG5 fake?

[HawkFan70]

My Dad had a bunch of slabs like this that you can't find in the Beckett database. For some odd reason, they duplicated certification numbers....not sure how that happened. I would bet it's legit. I know that this happened because my Dad actually submitted the cards and they are no longer in the certification list.

[BCauley]

Originally Posted by HawkFan70

My Dad had a bunch of slabs like this that you can't find in the Beckett database. For some odd reason, they duplicated certification numbers....not sure how that happened. I would bet it's legit. I know that this happened because my Dad actually submitted the cards and they are no longer in the certification list.

I read somewhere recently that sometime within the last 10 years or so that their database that held graded BVG information crashed, or something like that. So any record of a BVG card before that time was totally lost.

[swarmee]

You'd probably need to send it in to be slabbed and checked, with a new cert number created. I have also heard that their old certs were unintentionally erased, so it's not really a shock the cert number doesn't match. Upper Deck Authentications also had a database deleted, so many of their UDA pieces and signed cards inserted into packs can't be looked up either.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by BCauley

I read somewhere recently that sometime within the last 10 years or so that their database that held graded BVG information crashed, or something like that. So any record of a BVG card before that time was totally lost.

I have a few BVG graded that I checked in the data base recently after I discovered there was one. Initially, a few of them didn't come up. Then after trying 2 or 3 times they did???? There is also a tab to click that if you don't find your card, you can report it and they will search it? Don't know if that works or not because all of mine eventually popped up including this one.

from August 2005

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by BCauley

I read somewhere recently that sometime within the last 10 years or so that their database that held graded BVG information crashed, or something like that. So any record of a BVG card before that time was totally lost.

Without a backup server? Even ten years ago that should have been standard practice, taking database backups and having a modicum of a Disaster Recovery Plan.