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Originally Posted by buymycards
Any decent business should have contigency plans. For instance: How are we going to tabulate new bids? How are we going to notify our bidders? If our email isn't working, how about a back up bidder list on another computer system. What do we do if we are down for 30 minutes, or 1 hour or 1 day? Do we have an emergency phone number for our software person, and a back up number for someone else if the main person isn't available. How far away are they? Can they access our system from their business?
It seems that the current contigency plan for these auction houses is - "Oh shit, our system is down, now what?".
People will keep bidding with these auction houses, just as they are bidding with PWCC and just as they are continuing to swamp PSA with submissions.
PS. I did purchase a low grade T213 from PWCC a couple of weeks ago. I am no better than anyone else when it comes to a card that I need/want.
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Yes, folks like me and you will continue using the auction houses and PSA and SGC. But honestly I'm using them a lot less. And I'm buying few if any huge items. And when I see a card like a beautiful Cracker Jack PSA 7, for example, all I now think about is how was precisely it altered. And by whom. And I look at it ten more times wondering why a 100 year old card that was in a box of caramel coated candy is obviously whiter than the teeth in my mouth. I end up buying something on eBay for $125 and I don't lay in bed at night wondering if I was ripped off. And while I can imagine sending in something to get graded, most of the time I think about for a bit and the mood passes, and I just say fk it. Takes forever to get my order processed. So while, yes, most of continue to use these places, I'm guessing I am not the only one whose bidding habits have changed dramatically in the last 9 or so months.
I don't want to spend $20,000 on a card only to have someone expose it as doctored on the board a week later.