How did I get this for so cheap?

[packs]

On the submission form there is a box you can check if you will accept an AUTH grade. They won't grade your card AUTH unless you tell them that's an acceptable grade.

[zljones]

Originally Posted by packs

On the submission form there is a box you can check if you will accept an AUTH grade. They won't grade your card AUTH unless you tell them that's an acceptable grade.

O I see, rookie mistake on my part, this was my first submission.

[packs]

It's easy to miss. I found out the hard way too when I got a card back that was trimmed. If you call them they might work out a deal where you can just pay shipping and get the card slabbed rather than paying for a new submission from scratch.

[alanu]

In my experience you have to be careful when you choose "yes" to encapsulate cards as authentic, because when you go to print your invoice to send to SGC it switches to "no" so you have to cross it out and handwrite in "yes". I called SGC and they told me it's a glich in their system. Not sure if everyone has this issue.

-Alan

[Jay Wolt]

Here's a Buchner I have that was graded Auth due to color added.
Someone added a bit or orange to his hair to cover up a scuff or loss of paper.
I bought it already graded this way.

[ls7plus]

It's certainly not that difficult to tell if the card is real vs rescreened, i.e., a reprint or counterfeit made by taking a picture of a real card. Just check the print dot pattern, especially along the inner and outer black border lines and those around the name at the bottom of the card, as well as the name itself. As concerns the borders themselves, if they're straight and true, instead of comprised of an irregular dot pattern making them fuzzy under magnification (I suggest a 16x loupe), the card is almost certainly real. The dot pattern for Joe's uniform and face should also be regular (meaning linear), rather than seemingly random. As someone else also suggested, insofar as alterations are concerned, a black light can be quite "illuminating." In the early days of TPG, virtually every dealer buying raw cards brought his loupe to his table, not only to check dot patterns, but the card's edges (to determine if the card had been run through a paper press and thereby minutely enlarged, then cut back down to size to eliminate worn corners, thus producing "new" sharp corners. There used to be several fairly well-known dealers specializing in such altered cards before TPG really took hold, who would sell such cards as NMt-Mt. TPG has, IMHO, been of immense benefit to the hobby by putting these scammers out of business!

Hope this helps in the future,

Larry

[tbob]

Originally Posted by alanu

In my experience you have to be careful when you choose "yes" to encapsulate cards as authentic, because when you go to print your invoice to send to SGC it switches to "no" so you have to cross it out and handwrite in "yes". I called SGC and they told me it's a glich in their system. Not sure if everyone has this issue.

-Alan

Thanks for mentioning this Alan, I had this happen to me recently and I had to resubmit a card in the next shipment and pay the full price again. That is a weird glitch they have

[zljones]

I just listed this on Ebay tonight http://www.ebay.com/itm/290797533491...84.m1555.l2649.

[MikeGarcia]

Al long last we have found an honest E-Bay seller. Thank you sir.