The red cert is tainted. Either by ineptitude, or lack of technology, or kickbacks. Pick your poison. Paying $100 and thinking TPG was determining if your card was altered, was a pipe dream, and frankly, everyone knew it implicitly.
Now the rubber meets the road. If you want TPG to determine if your card is altered and guaranteed (not a watered down one), you will pay a premium for a review by experts (techies from BODA), who know how to detect what the manipulators are doing.
It's the perfect solution staring PSA in the face. Create a new higher end black label for anyone that wants their red-cert card "re"-certified as original and unaltered.
Yes, some vintage red-certs will lose value, as they should. But over a period to time the doctors have a problem. Leave it in a red-cert causing suspicion, or upgrade to the black label that will be forensically inspected. The cream will rise to the top, and those that have unaltered orignal vintage cards in high grade will gain the most.
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