Would the Hobby welcome a new TPG Co.that was high tech?

[SMPEP]

My vote would be .. yes I think people would be interested.

But the one thing that a good TPG should be doing in my opinion ... maintain a database with front/back scans of all the cards they grade .... so that before someone buys a card ... they can look it up and see if it's the same card. After all, anyone can produce a fake PSA slab and label. They can stick anything in there. And you will never know. But if you have the ability to see if it looks like what the company graded ... then at least there's one more check that this is accurate.

I also like the idea of having the owner's name of that card associated with it. As it changes hands, the seller/buyer can update. Some may not want to have their names associated with their cards - so it could be voluntary instead of mandatory. But this would be yet another way to verify the card. If I know XXX owns it, and YYY is selling it on Ebay ... that's a pretty good red flag there.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers,
Patrick

[conor912]

I might be interested in a service that inspects a card, deems it authentic and unaltered (or not) but does not assign a grade to it. I, as the collector, will decide what grade I think it is. Also, said company should let me choose what kind of holder I want it in (semi-rigid, top loader, mylar sleeve...whatever) then put a small tamper-proof seal over it to avoid switch-out.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by SMPEP

My vote would be .. yes I think people would be interested.

But the one thing that a good TPG should be doing in my opinion ... maintain a database with front/back scans of all the cards they grade .... so that before someone buys a card ... they can look it up and see if it's the same card. After all, anyone can produce a fake PSA slab and label. They can stick anything in there. And you will never know. But if you have the ability to see if it looks like what the company graded ... then at least there's one more check that this is accurate.

I also like the idea of having the owner's name of that card associated with it. As it changes hands, the seller/buyer can update. Some may not want to have their names associated with their cards - so it could be voluntary instead of mandatory. But this would be yet another way to verify the card. If I know XXX owns it, and YYY is selling it on Ebay ... that's a pretty good red flag there.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers,
Patrick

I agree with Patrick. I think there is a demand for this service on most pre-war cards. Post-war or new shiny stuff...I am not so sure where that dividing line runs.

As a collector looking for making a potential buyer "sure" the card I am selling is the one I had graded and encapsulated, I would absolutely pay more to have my card scanned and kept on file somewhere. How many others would do this? I am not too sure.

Good points and I have always thought a scanning service along with grading service to verify card grade would be useful

Z Wheat.

[Zach Wheat]

It would be hard to accurately grade issues like n172's with this service. I collect this set as well and pretty much do not pay attention to grades anyway, but rather the image quality.

I find it slightly humorous that some high graded N172's have a highly faded image while other low graded card have way more eye appeal.

Z Wheat

[egbeachley]

Here is a comment I made on this Board over 4 years ago. The only difference is that I think it would be expensive. But maybe not too bad if it's only for high priced cards.



The future is with a small boutique-like company with tamper-proof holders, hologram flips, Computer grading, and on-line scans of all the cards for comparison purposes. That will be expensive, but there may be a market for it.