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The FBI can't shut down a business just because it is under investigation.
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Thoughts on my second and third points
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It's easy of course to imagine an unsatisfying resolution of the investigation, from your and my perspective, but I really don't know.
There definitely seems to be an effort to move the goalposts on cleaning. It strikes me as self-serving and disingenuous. The hobby has never supported bleach or the like. Sure, one can and one always could give hypotheticals that seem relatively innocuous. But as a famous judge once said just because there's a slippery slope you don't have to ski it to the bottom. I'm not yet convinced that most cases of chemical cleaning are all that difficult to detect. You can just look at some of these cards and tell they've been cleaned. But if I am wrong about that, and TPGs truly can't detect it, there may be no choice but to assume that risk when you buy cards from certain issues. Of course, it begs the question, if it's legitimate and acceptable, why not disclose it? I never get an answer to that one.
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As much as I don't like PWCC, it seemed to be normal bidding. That postcard is super rare and is too rare for its own good. It went too cheap IMHO and the consignor would have dine much better with a reputable AH. Congrats too whoever won it. The Max Stein was pretty goid value as well. It wouldn't surprise me one bit, to see lower prices realized on premium cards. PWCC days of manipulation or turning a blind eye to stuff are over (I hope). Two years or less, they be gone.
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I am very, very, very far from convinced that there are undetectable serious alterations. I suspect that many to most of these undetected alterations are obvious if examined correctly. Quote:
For example: --->> PROFESSIONALL CLEANED!!!!! <<----- Last edited by drcy; 08-12-2019 at 02:02 AM. |
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1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson, $20,500
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1948-Leaf-J...oAAOSwRnNdQ1Os Last sale May 2018 went for $12,000. I think PWCC will be ok. |
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Good point Bobby. I guess at this point, collectors don't seem to care, so at least for the time being, they'll be selling at what seems to be strong prices.
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I am sure PWCC does have some legit customers. Too bad they are fueling the scam by using them. Just like the honest PSA customers. Just like Nancy Reagan taught us that buying a dime bag leads to drug lords killing innocent people. We need to learn that using PWCC and PSA will lead us to having a completely worthless collection of altered cards. We need to stamp out PWCC and PSA before they completely ruin the hobby. Last edited by bnorth; 08-12-2019 at 07:01 AM. |
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Stop buying the effing cards and submitting cards to these criminals. |
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Then get back to me on how great PWCC is. |
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You are not the only one to have observed potential issues with that right edge.
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PWCC sucks...but this is more a reflection on how badly PSA sucks!!!!
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This is a super rare PC. I think Stevenovella had one up on eBay a few months ago, as an auction with $40k minimum bid, but I don’t think it sold. Anyway, I agree with a Jay that the card went relatively cheap - in fact, I think the hammer price on the card may indicate the opposite of your hypothesis
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In the past couple of years I was involved with the FBI on with a fraud/theft investigation of a non profit that I am on the board of directors for. It was incredible to me at the time how slow the investigation was going. About six months into it, I had a discussion with the Agent in Charge and asked her why the heck it was taking so long when we clearly had identified what happened and knew who the offender was. She told me that they are slow and methodical on purpose. She told me that every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed before they move with any indictments. She chuckled and told me that this is why you rarely see the FBI lose a case. There were so many times that I thought nothing was going on and yet below the surface there were a dozen or more people working on it. If they truly are investigating PWCC and or PSA or anyone else, they won't know it till the FBI wants them to.
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