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Thread Title: SGC's own little WIWAG problem??
Created On Friday January 02, 2004 7:21 PM


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beefcake210
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Friday January 02, 2004 7:21 PM

Thread from SGC boards.

Rather interesting - it sounds as if it's confirmed that the label is bogus, and with a higher feedback seller, you'd have to assume this isn't a photoshop edit job. Is this a case of people switching cards in SGC holders?

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Friday January 02, 2004 7:34 PM

Did you get a look at the card before the auction was pulled to see what the problem was?

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beefcake210
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Friday January 02, 2004 7:41 PM

Card looked fine to me, though I'm not that familiar with SGC cards (in an intricate sense anyhow) - apparently the two red flags that people picked up on, as mentioned in the thread, was an extra digit on the SGC number and that it started with a "2" instead of a 1 or 8. SGC submissions are different from PSA or Beckett - the first number on the label is the submission #, and the second is the card number in the submission. Thus "1234567-001" would be submission invoice #1234567, and card #1 of that submission.

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shagrotn77
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Friday January 02, 2004 7:47 PM

So what is the deal with PSA and WIWAG? I heard there was some type of scandal, but I don't know what happened? Can anyone fill me in?

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spacktrack
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Friday January 02, 2004 7:54 PM

For starters.....

Outcome of WIWAG Sentencing

What was this WIWAG Scam?

Official News Release from the Feds regarding WIWAG

WIWAG & CU

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Saturday January 03, 2004 12:10 PM

The font on the label looks different, but there are no signs that the SGC holder was compromised.

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Saturday January 03, 2004 12:15 PM

It was mentioned on the SGC boards that the seller said the card appeared to have been re-holdered by someone other than SGC.

Get ready for the double talk about how this "scandal" is not exactly the same as wiwag; how in some way this SGC SCANDAL again verifies they are the far superior company. Funny.

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Edited: Saturday January 03, 2004 at 12:18 PM by uniship

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koby
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Saturday January 03, 2004 12:31 PM

Did anyone save a copy of the image? The SGC holder certainly did not look like it was tampered with.

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beefcake210
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Saturday January 03, 2004 3:35 PM

<< Get ready for the double talk about how this "scandal" is not exactly the same as wiwag; how in some way this SGC SCANDAL again verifies they are the far superior company. Funny. >>

LOL - and the prattle now is that I'm Solomon Kramer, and the Defenders of the Faith have to do anything possible to prove this is irrelivant, resorting to personal attacks against someone I'm not!

MW has to learn that there are more than three people in the world that don't have a hi opinion of his constant PSA bashing. Talk about defensive.

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Saturday January 03, 2004 4:24 PM

Not sure how one can compare the When It Was A Game scandal to this one example. How does one example stack up against the quantity of cards that were involved with When It Was A Game? Regardless of whose story you want to believe of the actual quantities involved.

If you want to take the position that where there is smoke there is fire, fine. But find hundreds more examples of holders that have been compromised before you start drawing wild conclusions.

As a new comer here and to the PSA grading game I have not found any comfort in the manner in which their scandal was handled.

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Saturday January 03, 2004 6:14 PM

<< double talk about how this "scandal" is not exactly the same as wiwag >>

READ the thread CAREFULLY. It is not the same.

I figure you got to really hate Sgc to think the WIWAG scandal compares to this auction.

But I do agree that there are a lot of unanswered questions from that debacle.

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Saturday January 03, 2004 7:25 PM

On the thread from the link mentioned above, the VP of SGC, Sean Skeffington wrote:

I am aware of the bogus Bonds card that is currently on eBay. I have been in contact with eBay's fraud department today and the auction should be removed within 24 hours. To answer Scott's question, I have not seen this version of a bogus SGC label before, but I have seen other crude reproductions of an SGC label on one or two other occasions. This is a rare and unfortunate situation, but thanks to all of the board members for bringing these potential frauds to light.

This fact that this is a new type of phony label and not of the phony labeled cards from one of the several prior incidents is disturbing and is sad news for all collectors and we need to show solidarity on this problem. I hope that SGC will take a proactive position this time and aggressively get to the bottom of this incident and file charges on the low life that is responsible for this.

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Saturday January 03, 2004 7:26 PM

Bottom line...some people just suck regardless of whose flip is fraudulent. I never thought the WIWAG scandal was a PSA problem and I don't think this an SGC problem. It is a people problem. No matter what you do to make the holder more secure there will always be someone who spends all of their time trying to be a tool. I think at the root of both these issues is such a person(s). The best thing to do is bring it to the grading companies attention and if applicable notify local authorities. Looks like SGC handled this as well as could be expected.

If you're like me, this stuff makes you sick and feel like slapping someone. It's nice to reflect on all of the reputable folks I've dealt with for a minute. That helps flush away this human refuse...sort of a hobby cleansing, if you will...doing away with the toxic under-belly of our collecting society...
someday I'll tell you how I really feel.

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Gottabuyit
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Wednesday January 07, 2004 3:51 PM

I have opened Sgc holders, and they are not as easy as PSA holders to open, so I don't if. If someone can pull that off, they are pretty good.

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Gottabuyit
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Wednesday January 07, 2004 3:54 PM

<< So what is the deal with PSA and WIWAG? I heard there was some type of scandal, but I don't know what happened? Can anyone fill me in? >>

Shag What they did was open part of a psa holder and put a lesser card condition in, then resealed it and sold it as the real mccoy. Pretty sneaky and pretty smart. Had they not been so greedy doing it on so many thousands of cards, they probably would have gotten away with it.

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Wednesday January 07, 2004 5:18 PM

1). If by sneaky, you mean criminal, then yes.
2). It has never been determined how many cards were doctored by WIWAG. To say that thousands were affected is pure conjecture, or you know more than the rest of us. Care to spill your info?

<< Shag What they did was open part of a psa holder and put a lesser card condition in, then resealed it and sold it as the real mccoy. Pretty sneaky and pretty smart. Had they not been so greedy doing it on so many thousands of cards, they probably would have gotten away with it. >>

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Edited: Wednesday January 07, 2004 at 5:20 PM by schr1st

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Wednesday January 07, 2004 5:34 PM

I am sure that if it were not several thousands of cards that were involved that Real Legends would not be involved in litigation over this matter. WIWAG was the main consignor to Real Legends' Grade & Trade for a long period of time and had unknowingly sold most of the cards that would qualify as those that were switched and resealed.

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Wednesday January 07, 2004 5:43 PM

so wiwag was done on a larger scale SUPPOSEDLY (how do we know the numbers of either?) - can someone please tell me the difference in the problem?

seems to me in both instances the cards were inserted into new holders with higher false grades.

Where is the outrage on the SGC boards? When wiwag hit that very outrage was EVERYWHERE - I believe the sky was falling if I remember correctly. Now when the shoe is on the other foot? Virtual silence. How telling.

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Edited: Wednesday January 07, 2004 at 5:43 PM by uniship

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koby
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Wednesday January 07, 2004 5:58 PM

The same thing can happen to SGC.

SGC holders are very easy to open without traces of tampering. Whether this has been done on a large scale, nobody know yet.

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Wednesday January 07, 2004 8:32 PM

<< 1). If by sneaky, you mean criminal, then yes.
2). It has never been determined how many cards were doctored by WIWAG. To say that thousands were affected is pure conjecture, or you know more than the rest of us. Care to spill your info?
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MW posted that there were tens of thousands of WIWAG cards still out there. What more proof do you need??????????

He also said that SGC gets rid of all fake SGC cards to take them off the market. But the seller didn't say anything about being contacted by SGC to take the card back. They merely contacted Ebay to end the auction.

I think that it is awful that anyone conterfiets a card, and I would lke all companies to make it more difficult. I used to buy SGC cards,ut the reason I own PSA cards and not SGC cards now is not becuuse of security reasons, but because MW is so obnoxious that I want nothing to do with SGC.

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