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Joe P.Three (3) different crack slabbers, count 'em three (3).
SGC - GAI - PSA sang together like a rap trio, and the Alter word was left in Rio.
Even an 1980 - 1970 vintage collector newbie can walk right onto this forum for the first time and see the difference between the ungraded Cobb, and the thrice graded Cobb.
Same Cobb, but we now really know what they mean by plastic surgery.
Questions abound.
1. Who doctored the card?
2. Who had it slabbed by GAI?
3. Why did a dealer on this board feel that just because 3 different morticians slabbed the card it thus became a cleansed card and there was no need to alert the buyer of same, namely another dealer.
Let me stop here and try to digest this tale.
Let me see if I can understand this correctly?
The SGC Slabbers, offered to buy back their mistake for $750.00 in an effort to protect their credibility -- an intelligent move.
The dealor generously declined the offer, wanted his card back ungraded and gracefully accepted $200.00 of free slabbing.
In May the dealer sells the card to a customer.
Customer is advised of the sordid details.
Customer says, not a problem, and he sends the card for a PSA grading - card is graded - what else is new?
Dealer informs Scott of this and sends him a scan of the card in the PSA holder and Scott assured him that he would not post about the card anymore and stir up controversy.
In Mid July the dealer's customer's Father passed away and the customer needed money.
He met him at the National and purchased his collection.
Whereupon, at the same show he sold the card to Wayne along with several other pre war cards.
As he told Scott, he made a judgment call not to go into the history of the card with Wayne.
The card had been graded by GAI, SGC and now PSA.
To the dealer, "it was now irrelevant."
In other words, this particular dealer negated what he saw with his own eye's in favor of the mistake done by the 3 slab experts (sic) because their mistake inadvertently gave him the chance to deal.
BOTN:
"Wayne is owed an apology. Wayne is a great guy and an honorable dealer."
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You got that right.
At what point did you decide that he didn't have to know the details about that card?
Joe