The underworld is not transparent.
Show me the Card Fax.
Is buying a used card that different from buying a used car?
One benefits from the “repair” history of the car before the purchase.
Does the card doctor proudly put a sticker on the card to document his fine work?
Does the auction house reference their prior sale of the same card when the “altered and graded” card is relisted by the same auction house and have the gall to add a sticker that the card doctor omitted?
Does the grader acknowledge that the same, now altered, card has previously received a lower grade? Shouldn’t he know, even if there is no money passed under the table?
Do you really want to spend $10000, $20000 or more on a card without this information to garner an elite status gold star on a registry? Apparently many do.
To try to absolve any of the involved entities of guilt, by placing the blame on one of the others, is the pot calling the kettle black or vice versa. Are all the parties colluding in the scheme? Perhaps not to the same degree, but they are at least complicit.
If there was a true whistle blower at any of the stops along the way, the fraud would be uncovered. Blowout and Net54 both have members no doubt with skin in the game. But Redefining fraud to absolve oneself of guilt seems by most to be an insufficient tactic. To remain silent and wait for the wind to blow this away may be successful, but does not mean the fraud isn’t happening.
Disclaimer: I have never seen a Car Fax, or had any dealing with them
I would buy a 1992 Toyota without one, but would be more careful in the purchase of my Rolls Royce or Bentley.
