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Originally Posted by scooter729

Why go through the charade of the first transaction?

The first transaction has to occur for the sake of the original consignor who knows nothing about the process, he only has a card to sell. It has to appear that a legitimate transaction occurs. It makes the process harder to track and it takes the consignor out of the equation (one less person to split the money with). The consignor gets paid based on the original sale price, less fees. He is none the wiser.

Originally Posted by scooter729

Wouldn't they just go straight to their PSA 'insider' and get a higher grade, then sell it once?

If he went straight to PSA for the bump, then the consignor would reap all the reward - there wouldn't be any piece of the pie for anybody else - the consignor gets it all.

Again, that's the point of making it appear as a transaction has occurred. That said, it's a legitimate auction. Anybody can bid. However, I believe that the person set up to win the auction has a pretty high proxy to unsure that he wins.

Last point, maybe it's not Rick himself directly involved in the process. Maybe it's somebody that works for him. But this is the second time in about a year that this has happened (and multiple times from each person) and the MO is exactly the same both times - absolutely no difference - even their geographical locations are the same.

Edited to add: Probstein has to know about this by now. I know for a fact that gpark73 does. Probstein should address the situation and divulge the name of gpark73 who is a card doctor and schiller.