A while ago there was someone on eBay who had a major PSA screw-up, didn't like their offer to fix it, and posted it on eBay over and over again with a very high BIN basically trolling PSA. I think it was a Heinie Wagner labeled a Honus.

I'm sure of 2 things:

PSA is aware of this thread
The card will be destroyed

I don't have any inside knowledge, but those are certainties IMO. As for how the owner will be compensated. Who knows? It would be in PSA's best interests to make the owner happy, but they don't always do the right thing.

Probably looked it up and went "Ah S*** that's one I did... Hey, taking off early, gotta headache... "

Do you mean this one:

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1604125494

It's not mine, but it's funny as hell...

Is that in the PSA pop reports as a legit Honus Wagner?

I'm pretty sure there are more than a few certs that have been intentionally deactivated/removed due to a small inaccuracy.

Here's another fun T206 Big 4 Blunder. At least with Heine they got the card designation correct.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1604153920

Again, not mine, but funny as hell.

That's a Caramel card, right?

So for all four of the Big 4, I'd have to believe PSA screwed all of them up over the years.
Did they mess up a Doyle and assign it the wrong variation?
And did they authenticate an altered MAGEE as a MAGIE?

Ted posted that theres a PSA graded Doyle Error with PB back, which is an impossible combination -- but I have never seen it.

I sometimes wonder if these are actually screw ups or PSA messing with us. I envision in my dreams the 3 people grading a card, sitting in circle and saying "you know what I'm gonna put this Heine in a Honus Wagner slab." "HAAA, good one Mike, can't wait til that hits the internet." "I've got one better, I'm going to encapsulate this conterfeit!!!" "Ohh they'll love that too, good thinkin Jim"

If only it were so simple..

I believe it's an E95.

The guy that graded the T206 Heine must have also graded this one...

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1604174566

Wait, there's more... another of the T206 Toughies...

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1604174713

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Been back at PSA over 24hrs now and still no word from them....anyone else surprised?

Yup...not a peep since the "first thing Monday" response I got back on Friday. :rolleyes:

I’d be surprised if we hear anything else. If I was PSA I would want this to go away as quickly and quietly as possible. The card will be destroyed, the OP will get his vouchers, and that will be the end of it.

Don't get your hopes up. They will squelch this major gaffe just as they've done with all the others. Slimy as hell...

Card never should have been sent back to them for the pittance they offered.

yup...saw this a mile away...maybe next time things will be different?

After I emailed to ask if it was "first thing on Monday" yet, the lady called me. As expected, they realized it was a "reprint", no other details given. All very matter of fact. Said she would process a refund for my $34 and if I wanted they'd return my raw card. Again started into offering some platinum membership and free grades, and when I said that wasn't of any use, that was that. I just hung up...tired of thinking about it.

Anyways...thus ends the saga...so I'll take off. Thanks for allowing me to tell the story.

Thanks for sharing and have a great evening.

Yeah that's about how we all figured it would go down. I wish I could just refund some fees and walk away if I screw up a client's case but that is the prerogative of kings and those who own the Registry.

It's good to be a monopoly.

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...to_be_king.jpg

Wow, you definitely should have kept it and flaunted it.

1915 cj
 

I cant wait to hear what they offer you, I would think it would be substantial. I could see SGC paying $5k for it and starting a marketing campaign around why all TPG aren't the same.

He said 34 bucks, which were his fees

I would bet big that SGC wouldn't want to open that can of worms. They have had some pretty big mistakes also. I am far from a fan of their lawyer but he is damn good at his job, can't see him telling them it would be a good idea.

The estimates keep getting higher and higher since I sent it back and got squat. Before long I'll have screwed myself out of a new house and car. :D hehe

I have old cards, all of them raw, ungraded. I do not want them graded. I have had many trade offers for some of the cards I have. The only trades I have followed through on are raw cards-for-cards, no money involved. Most recently, quite a few 1959-60-61 and several 1962 Topps stars/HOF's for an equitable number of 1952 Topps and 1953 Bowman color. Everything was above board. Checked with loupe, blacklight, hands on examination and "feel". Can't do that with a big PSA or whoever slab. I like to "hands on" my cards, like I did as a kid. No stress, no obsessive worries. We both walked away from our trade happy as we could be. I've read through this whole ordeal, and cannot help but wonder if this old card could have been ID'ed real or fake right up front without the PSA slab?

Looks like there are even more embarrassing fakes in PSA slabs, take a look at the Tip Top Bread thread.

The perforations by themselves made it an obvious reprint. All the others things wrong about it (cardstock, erasure over REPRINT, wear, coloration, print quality) would only take an extra few seconds for most experts to deem it fake, no matter whether it was slabbed or not.

Should have kept it or auctioned it off. I bet there would have been a few people here willing to put up some cash for it. I'd have paid a hundred for it easy!

Where is that thread?

And what auction house would have the balls to auction that card off??

Net54 b/s/t auction :D

Ding, ding, ding.

Honestly, how many people here would have bid on it? I know I would have made a spirited attempt to get it.

Yes Dave, you messed up (with all due respect). You let PSA off easy. At worst, you could have sold it to someone like me who would have posted it here regularly to remind the world of how psa ensures we never get cheated. But instead, you let them off the hook for $34. It was your (reprint) card, so of course you are/were free to do with it as you choose. I just do not agree with your choice.

Ryan

I think about 5 people in this thread showed public interest. I'm sure there were at least 10 more waiting in the wings.

Next up is that reprint Tip Top 😊

Dave made his intentions clear and everyone had ample time to make him an offer he couldn't refuse. No one did, so he went through with his stated plan. He was doing what he thought was right, regardless of possible financial gain or being complicit in the forwarding the anti-PSA agenda so pervasive in some pockets here.

IMO anyone who, for any reason, owns and refuses to crack out a single PSA card, shouldn't cast stones here.

I see an honest opinion. Frankly, I kinda agree with it. I may not have said "you fucked up" (and it was written "with all due respect"), but yeah, I kinda think he fucked up. Anyway, the owner sees the humor in it because he's posted that he's not going to be able to retire off of the cash he would have gotten for it. :p

Perhaps repeatedly poking fun at the TPGs by posting that glaring mistake, over and over again might actually make them try harder (not to FUCK UP). Ok, perhaps that's a stretch...

Means absolutely nothing. People are lined up at the doors of PSA and wrapped around the building about ten times with wallets wide open. PSA is struggling to take that cash fast enough right now. If they can shave a second or two off each assesment they have a clear incentive.

I did more than show interest in the thread. I would have also been part of some spirited bidding if it was in the BST auction section.

I sold all my slabbed cards but a few "special" slabbed cards in the last year. By special I mean I have 2 Beckett test slabs from before they ever graded a card for the public, Special event slabs that they come slabbed(no grade), a couple PSA test slabs, and a PSA mistake(don't everyone have one of those).LOL

Just curious, how much would people have bid on that CJ? I'd honestly have gone up to a couple hundred. Yeah, sounds stupid, but then again, I'm not "the brightest tool in the shed."

Fess up, how much would people have paid for the CJ?

The reason I wanted it is because CJs are a very popular set and that was just so frigging funny.

I've got a T201 slabbed by reputable TPG that is folded in half in the slab. You can't see the whole card. I saw it on ebay years back and I had to have it. I didn't need it. I just had to have it - it's just absurd.

Dave, thanks for sharing your very interesting story. You gotta realize that most people on this site are full of poop. Nobody was goong to get into a bidding war over that card.

I hope you keep your Dover reprint and enjoy it.

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I was in the same price range as this, couple hundred. Mainly because it was the card and paperwork.

I am a huge error and variation collector and really like the 89 Fleer Bill Ripken errors. The PSA card I kept it a PSA 9 Bill Ripken White Out version. They sell in the $700-$1000 range. Problem is it is really a Black Box version in the slab. In PSA 9 you can regularly own one for less than $10.

I can guarantee you are WRONG.

Concur

This doesn't make sense to me. what good does cracking out a card do? If it's a horribly comical mistake, cracking it out ruins it. If it's all good, then all cracking it out does is make it more likely someone will give the clueless company money to look at it again.

I have a handful of PSA cards, maybe 5 or 6. I've given them all a good look, and aside from slight disagreement over one grade I think they got those few correct.

Heck, I haven't bothered cracking this Acu-Card example that I'm sure is trimmed on all four sides. (I'd be very happy to be proven wrong but I'm not. )
https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...pictureid=6171

Got the return package back last night and you were close...not slabbed, but in a card saver with PSA sticker across the front with "? AUTHTCT"...

https://imgur.com/KjMIow6

They tossed in a few "extras" in the return package. Two books, a PSA Card Display/Frame, Magazine, and a ballcap...

https://imgur.com/DUNpOp5

It'll all be up on ebay at some point soon if anyone sees something they can't live without. lol

Sick hat :D

I haven't tried it on to see it if fits or not. :D

That cap ?
 

...are there any autographs on that cap ? "Joe" ??..."Brent"" ??

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Card is relisted with update.

The gift that keeps on giving. The person that bought it must have conveniently lost the ?AUTHTCT label that was included when they purchased it for 9 bucks a few weeks ago. :D

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1915-Connie...IAAOSw~bxf0rvU

...lost the ?AUTHTCT label after no takers at $2,297

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1915-Cracke...p2047675.l2557