did you ever wonder ????

1420sports

I am new to the set registry (Pete Rose Player set and 1933 Goudey) and I just upgraded a card that I paid for on ebay. I added the PSA cert # and - Bingo - the card was added. I know the real pride is completing a set and upgrading for real, but I wonder if there are cards listed on peoples sets that are not really their cards? NO accusations at all, just a thought.

What would be the penalty, and how could it be enforced?

Cyphilissb

i have thought of that question before. As far as i can tell there is nothing stopping someone from going around ebay and writing down cer. numbers and putting up those cards on the registry. It would be hard to catch someone doing that, but if anybody monitors ebay its the people on the set registry board. I would like to here other peoples opinions on this.

I dont believe it to be the case but earlier when some guys were talking about the 64 topps giants set and they thought that one guy had all of the Spahn psa 10's but someone else put one in their set this situation was the first thing that popped into my mind. It turns out that it wasn't the case but it makes you wonder....what if?

jrinck

This could happen, but probably not.

At some point the real owner would try to register the card and not be able to, prompting an inquiry to the other registry participants.

The culprit would be weeded out and ostracized.

1420sports

"weeded out and ostracized" - I dig it .....

I think that PSA would have to not allow that person to register, or at least have a notation on his/her future sets letting everyone know what happened

boggs301012

I think it would be fairly easy. Just a guess I bet more then half of the cards graded arent ever listed on the registry. The person who listed it would never be caught. I.E. My Fav Boggs over 5406 1983 topps cards alone...Registered Boggs Player sets 2 . Registered 1983 Topps sets 8. That is a total of 10 cards..( if they all have Boggs in them assuming they do ) That leaves approx 5396 un-registered Boggs Topps Rookies.......I know there is a 300 Greatest Set and maybe one other set that use the Boggs topps... SO 5396 give or take a handful.

Vargha

It would be simple enough to do -- but for what end . . . pretending to be someone you're not or perhaps an elaborate eBay scheme with no scans? It doesn't seem to be worth the trouble to me.

waitilltheytrytosell

Vargha is correct. What is there to gain in doing this? Eventually, somebody will be registering the actual card, and they will need to be removed from the pathetic individual's set. Actually, it just occurred to me that this pathetic person would have something to gain from borrrowing cert numbers - The five free grades when his collection of cert numbers reaches 75%. I sure hope he misses the fine print. I sure hope he has a good explanation for what all those socks are doing stuffed down his shorts too.

acowa

Does the socks down the shorts trick work? If so, that would be a good explanation.

Regards,


Alan

zardoz51

On behalf of "The Socks Stuffed In The Shorts Society"

I must vehemently protest the insinuation that we would ever cheat on our registry sets. We may violate the truth in advertising laws, but to pad our sets would be unethical.

NickM

zardoz - why are you still advertising?

Nick