There's a New Grading Service in Town! PSA LookOUT

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Posted By: DonJ.

Check this out - are these guys serious or what?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=55917&item=3278482830

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Posted By: Cycleback

Fair to assume that the seller and his website will be receiving contact from a PSA lawyer.

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Posted By: murcerfan

........that makes an O.J. about 275 feet tall.

hmmm.

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Posted By: petecld

That's for sure. No copyright issues with this auction huh?

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Posted By: Julkie Vognar

Figuratively speaking, there are enough BASTARDS in the world already!

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Posted By: Mike (18colt)

"Willy" Mays on the COA. Could be PSA's offspring with typos like this.

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Posted By: Bob Luce

I like that the dealer is selling the card for his client Andrew Carnegie. Next month he'll probably be selling John Jacob Astor's Old Judges.

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Posted By: Cycleback

This seller causes much amusement (At 1600x magnification you about could see which side the electrons part their hair). But, as with many eBay auctions, I wonder less about the seller than those who choose to place bids.

If an auction winner has trouble with the seller or the card he receives, I likely won't have sympathy when he complains, "I knew the seller was breaking international trademark laws, was just trying to rip off PSA's reputation and I figured that Andrew Carnegie was bunch bull in order to raise bids, but how was I supposed to predict that the card would be overgraded?"

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Posted By: Dave

According to the PSA-DNA website, you make a scan at 72 pixels per inch. Make this a jpeg (compression not specified) and send it to them. They do their software magic, and give you the answer. They don't register the card until they get your money. The buyer can make his own scan, and have it verified. Much like a fingerprint.

If each pixel is 1/72 of an inch, and you magnify 1600 times, each pixel is slightly larger than 22 inches on a side. Maybe it's easier to count lost ones that way.

Someone is yanking PSA's chain, and doing it pretty well.

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Posted By: Kevin O

Check out the "Authentication Certificate" for this Robert Clemente card on the "PSA-DNA" website:

http://www.psadnacards.com/infomainmenucert.htm

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't "Cemente" play on that same Bedrock nine as Roger Marble and Mickey Mantlepiece?

By the by, this same card grades a "10" on the slab, but only a "9" on the "Authentication Certificate." I guess it's hard to tell the difference between those numbers when they're magnified to the size of the Pyramids.

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

Do you have to actually send a card to them or a scan?
I don't quite get all of what they are about. I like there statement that most of the cards they analyzed were undergraded.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

...yet I'm gonna send them my 6 or so ultra high grade 1971 commons to see if I can 9 or 10 (I'll have an authorized dealer send them for me so they are treated "fairly") and get some idiot registry pimps to chase them afterwards.

I wonder if my autographed 1950's exhibit card of Hal (ol' Hank dropped his sig a bit on my card) Aaron would do as well as the Cemente??