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What would you do?
Let's say you're set up as a dealer at a card show and you purchase a graded card from a customer. The customer walks away, you price the card and put it in your display case. A while later, another dealer comes up to you and says the card you bought from the customer was stolen from his table earlier. What would you do?
Has this (or anything similar) ever happened to anyone at a show? |
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Just call the police, I guess (or whatever security is working the show and have them call the police). And, if I could get away from my table, maybe try to look around the show to snap a pic of the customer if he was still around. Either the customer or the dealer is lying...and I'm not really equipped to figure out who.
Last edited by Frankish; 05-17-2021 at 02:37 PM. |
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No report prob no dice. Then if he comes forward with that I'd ask for some proof of ownership prior to the day in question. Either proof of his purchase or maybe some dated photographs or inventory lists. Something like that. Short of that kind of factual support I think he's probably sh*t out of luck. Of course if the guy who claims he was ripped off is someone I know beforehand to be on the up and up, that would be an entirely different calculus. Burden on him to prove it. Could be a situation where he actually was ripped off, but the card you have is the same grade but an entirely different card. Last edited by Snapolit1; 05-17-2021 at 02:45 PM. |
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Is this a $10 card or a $1,000. card? Either way, I would ask for video.
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No report no return for me. How do I know I'm not being taken for a ride? Sob stories are a dime a dozen.
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Does anyone know if PSA or SGC have a System or Database for Victims Of Theft to post pics and cert numbers of said stolen card ?
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If I knew them and trusted them and thought them of good character, I would give them the card for nothing.
If I did not know them, I would require reasonable proof of the claim, and if such proof was provided or ascertained, I would give them the card for nothing. If I knew them to be a person of dishonesty and low character, I would immediately dismiss the request for the card. |
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The dealer who did not safeguard his card bears at least some responsibility here, ethically if not legally. Why should David (or whoever it is) be the ONLY one of the three parties here to suffer a loss?
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I would tell the guy there is a free t-shirt giveaway behind him and when he turns around I would run.
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PSA should set up a Title Transfer Service, similar to real estate transactions.
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Here's a quick story. I don't know if it's relevant here, but here goes.......
In 1981, I had purchased a couple of retail boxes of 1981 Fleer baseball wax packs from a candy/tobacco wholesaler in my Brooklyn neighborhood. Sometime in 1981 (or possibly 1982) I had put a box of these cards on display on my table at a NYC card show. I was selling the packs individually. I did notice that the glue/wax or whatever Fleer used to keep the packs closed wasn't holding up very well. The thought occurred to me to use a bit of Elmer's glue on each pack to keep them closed, but I decided against it because I didn't feel right about "altering" the packs. So during the show, a mother (and her two young sons) returned to my table loudly demanding a refund on a few of these packs because she felt that I had opened the packs, removed the star cards and resealed the packs. I tried to assure the woman that this was not the case, but she then said that she spoken to two reputable dealers at the show (I'm not going to name them) who concurred with her. At this point, I had a crowd of people staring at me, and I did nothing wrong! I sheepishly gave the woman a refund and told her to keep the cards. I reiterated that I did not do what I was being accused of, but she would hear none of it. After that, I removed all these cards from their packs. This happened nearly 40 years ago, but I remember it as though it was yesterday.
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