Beckett Grading Service Frustration

[Bored5000]

Beckett should offer to reholder the card for free, but why would you even want the card in a Beckett holder? If you are going to go through the hassle of getting the card reholdered, you might as well just put it in a PSA holder.

[Batpig]

I'd psa that thing. It's a really nice card.

[HawkFan70]

I was hoping that they would just re-issue a new certification number for free but since they aren't going to do that I'm going to send it to PSA.

Thanks for the kind words.

[swarmee]

With the looks of those edges, I'm surprised BVG considered that an 8 subgrade. But yes, if they duplicated their cert numbers, they should be on the hook to reholder the card. PSA definitely would.
Does it really matter that much that it doesn't show in the BGS Pop Report? Is there any question when you sell it that BVG actually graded the card in question and that the slab's not cracked? I wouldn't worry about it, unless you happen to be trying to do a set in BVG holders in their Set Registry.

[HawkFan70]

I tried to sell the card on Ebay and the buyer backed out because he couldn't verify the certification number. My Dad has a handful of cards with this issue but I didn't realize this was one of them until I tried to sell it.

[frankbmd]

The card is not in a BVG holder.

When Beckett split their grading into two services, BGS and BVG holders,
I believe the numbering sequence for the BVGs created the possibility of something like this happening. They should fix it though.

Cards with the old low numbers, less than 5 real digits, do not show up on their cert check service. That I have seen.

[ngnichols]

Contact Derek Ficken - dficken@beckett.com and he'll get you taken care of on this. He's the SW Regional sales rep and is actually in the building at Beckett HQ in Dallas.

[seanofjapan]

So you had a valid complaint about their service, and the remedy they offered you was to allow you to buy more of the very service you were complaining about?

THAT is lousy customer service!