GAI has a "whoops"

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Posted By: warshawlaw 

The 10-11-02 SCD has a great expose on the fake 1963 Bazooka cards auctioned lately under the FGA grading service slabs by bassmaster. It's a must-read--way to go Bob!! About time we started seeing some investigative journalism. It only helps the hobby to expose its scummy underbelly.

The most interesting part (besides the Appalachian mining town interrelatedness of the card sellers, graders and marketers) is that GAI graded five of the fake Mantles, then when confronted, Steve Rocchi admitted it was a "mistake". Right. . .

Mr. Rocchi, my three year old wetting herself at camp is a "mistake". Picking up the wrong tray at the fast food is a "mistake." Missing the bowl at 3:30 a.m. is a "mistake." Your supposedly sophisticated grading service grading FIVE extremely high end fake Mantles from the same source is gross negligence.

For those of you playing at home, the score now stands at SGC with a fake Doyle, PSA with a fake Ruth rookie and a color Fro-Joy, PRO with everything it slabs trimmed, GAI with five fake Mantles, and Beckett and CSA--oh, frankly, who cares.

By the way, I also love how the Shop At Home buyer who picked up around 100 of these Mantles sent in five to GAI and the other 95 to FGA, which just happens to be a company he financed and consulted for. No conflicts there, dude. Ironic isn't it that his chums at FGA weren't good enough to authenticate the first five of the bogus cards. Sounds like this guy cleverly covered his @$$ by having a "legit" company opine favorably on a few of the cards so that he could send the rest to the clown college with a legally clear conscience. I wonder how many times he had to shop the cards to grading services before some got through?

I hope that somewhere in hell there is a special room for guys like this to have their genetalia repeatedly slabbed and cracked out throughout eternity.

"I am depressed" -- Taggert in Blazing Saddles.