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Posted By: Cat

WIWAG (When It Was A Game) was a dealer (more than one guy) from San Diego County, California. They would have high grade cards slabbed by PSA (mine were all PSA 8 cards) and in some fashion had figured out a mechanism to extract the card from the holder insert a lesser card (I believe they used a new holder but the actual PSA flip) in it's place and then resale the lesser card slabbed and in a PSA 8 holder. They would then resubmit the "good" card and have it again graded an 8 and the process would start all over again. In simple terms they were sending the "good" card in to get the flips and cert. #s.

I think this all came to a crashing end in 2001 or 2002. I did get a couple of e-mails from the San Diego County office of the FBI and was asked to provide a verbal victim statement at the trial/hearing. I didn't bother. Actually, I wish I would have paid more attention, but I was professionally busy and didn't want to deal with it.

PSA jumped through a lot of hoops to clean this up. No Wonder!!!