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1420sports
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another card to PRO Grading.
Mantle PSA 5
I was watching this one and was thinking about buying the card. The buyer is one of PRO's biggest sellers, so it appears that this nice, solid 1959 Mantle PSA 5 could be crossed very soon to PRO.
I wonder what grade it will get ???
Mantle PSA 5
I was watching this one and was thinking about buying the card. The buyer is one of PRO's biggest sellers, so it appears that this nice, solid 1959 Mantle PSA 5 could be crossed very soon to PRO.
I wonder what grade it will get ???
collecting various PSA and SGC cards
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I think he could make a PRO 8 out of it.....maybe an 8.5
Paul.
<< <i>I think he could make a PRO 8 out of it.....maybe an 8.5
Paul. >>
do y'all realize how many nice vintage cards are being destroyed every day? sheeesh.. makes me not even want to sell my raw cards cuz I'm afraid somebody's just gonna chop 'em up..
lothar52
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Ebay - mpn2gwvputty
Ratso of the Booze Junkies MC
wind up rebuying it when it comes back an 8.
aconte
66Mantle
He bought a perfect 61-62 Fleer basketball card from me that I thought was a 9 when I submitted it but it came back a 5 because of this tiny little indent on the back that was only visible on a certain angle. It would take very little to remove that indent and perhaps pull off a 9.
I feel bad now. He won my miscut '69 Mike Shannon awhile back. I was hoping it would find it's way into a nice non-graded collector's set.
<< <i>There's another thread - about 'another card off to the chop shop' with the same premise - got chewed on by glmueller for commenting - his contention is that "these people are just making a living" and that I was envious of the fact that I could not afford to bankroll an endeavor like this - this is not illegal and I need to chill - anyone got any ideas on this one? >>
People will use all kinds of excuses to justify ripping people off. Card doctors are no better than 2-bit con artists in my book. As far as I'm concerned, they're no different than the tele-evangelists that rip off little old ladies.
Unfortunately it is not illegal and nothing we can do about it.
Such a shame
<< <i>Agreed 100%
Unfortunately it is not illegal and nothing we can do about it.
Such a shame >>
<< <i>Actually, it is illegal. To knowingly sell misrepresented items (IE: him trimming the cards, submitting them to PRO, then selling them regardless of the grade on the front of the PRO holder) would be fraud. >>
I agree. I liken it to a car dealer rolling back the milage on a used car. If doctoring cards and misrepresenting them as unaltered is legal, I'd be very surprised. After all, WIWAG was arrested just for slipping lower grade cards in higher grade holders. Assuming those cards were unaltered, it was still against the law.
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