Curious - Why Blur Cert Numbers
GuzziSport
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Just wondering why some feel a need to blur cert numbers in their pics? what’s the concern? Thanks
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GuzziSport
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Paranoia?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
It deters rif raf and the sorts
Or maybe Pareidolia?
Maybe it is not a picture of a coin that they own. LOL
Seriously, there are "collectors" out there that just add coin cert numbers to their registry sets without actually owning them.
If a PCGS coin has an NFC chip, there is no need to blackout the cert numbers/barcodes as when you have the coin in hand and register it into your inventory, it is automictically removed from the prior owner's inventory.
I don't like when sellers do this as I cannot research it thru the cert verification app.
Wayne
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Some people say they don't want the pictures re-used for nefarious sales/copies.
It makes no sense to me but if it helps them to sleep at night, who are we to stop them.
One reason to blur the Cert # is for a very specific reason. If the coin is being shown in a GTG thread, the Cert # is usually blurred so it can't be looked up to see the grade.
OK thanks, thought perhaps I was missing something, but I guess not!
I've seen this done before and wondered the same thing.
I will say that if one does not own a coin whether they sold it in the past or not they have absolutely no business posting a cert number blurred or not. You either own a coin or you dont.
With one exception. To post about purchasing a coin. Even that's no always appropriate.
I have owned a few beauties that I have passed along but they are the new owners to do with as they please.
That's just my opinion.
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I have seen people do it so they don't have people adding it to their registries.
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I have seen some operations that have multiples of same item and do not want to retake pictures for every one of them.
I can think of three scenarios off the top of my head. (I don't know how realistic they are).
Someone steals your photo to use for fraudulent purposes elsewhere, such as a registry set or ebay.
Someone uses your slab's details to file a false police report claiming that the coin was stolen from them, and then they try to take it from you on the basis of that report.
A data breach at our host exposes details whereby someone could use your photo to track down your address. (This scenario is more convoluted and such a data breach might carry far worse implications than what we are talking about here.)
Someone uses a cert # to try to identify a string of submissions by the same person (I think I've seen people do that here), thereby revealing much more than the one coin that was publicly shared by its owner.
There could be other nefarious possibilities that I am not aware of, as I am constantly amazed at some of the scams that people come up with.
I thought folks blurred the cert # so the Chinese PCGS slab counterfeiters wouldn't use the #. Yes the # could be looked up but just made it easier for them to have a # if they wanted to replicate the slab with its known grade.