Darren's Rovell take on PWCC, etc.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by swarmee

I spent half the day looking through my house for all my slabs to figure out which ones I'm sending to COMC for sale on Monday.
On their way:
50 from HOF Autos Collection
170 of 1952 Topps Baseball
50 of 1952 Topps Baseball Autographed
150 cards of Mickey Mantle on the Master Set Registry
113 cards of the T121 World War I set
70 of the 80 cards in the 1959 Fleer Ted Williams set
Mattingly Rookie Set (plus Nestle and Tiffany)
Mark Teixeira Rookie Set (plus a bunch of others)
32 Bobby Jones
30 Christopher Columbus
8 N43
13 T6
Whole bunch of odds and ends, along with the 32 cards from the board bulk submission going straight to COMC.

Sending my complete set of R184 Indian Chiefs and some other odds and ends to the next Nonsports Auction.

So I'm clearing out 750 PSA slabs out of my collection. For now, I'll be keeping the #1 rated T51 Murad Colleges set and the T56 Fraternal Emblems. I submitted the vast majority of those cards from collections I purchased on eBay, and believe them to be good.

I was a pretty big PSA homer until this latest scandal broke, and the post on the CU board from 15 years ago where Joe Orlando said it's better to let trimmers/alterers continue to submit to PSA rather than taking away their privileges being dredged up really teed me off.

In order for this scandal to actually get PSA to change, I want to see a big drop in the value of PSA graded slabs. And less people to submit. And more people to protest. We've still only reached a minority of PSA collectors. I reached out to one guy who had 13 cards in one set exposed as trimmed by Blowout. This guy wasn't contacted by PSA or PWCC to tell him his cards were altered.

It requires the crowd-sourcing BO has been doing in order to make people aware of the fraud perpetrated against them.

List them on here before they go to the wasteland that COMC has become. I know you are still a great seller over there. Sadly most others are listing at beyond museum prices.

[Golfcollector]

Originally Posted by bnorth

List them on here before they go to the wasteland that COMC has become. I know you are still a great seller over there. Sadly most others are listing at beyond museum prices.

+1 - I would take a peek at any Bobby Jones cards

[Johnny630]

PSA won't go out of business.....check out the lines at the National.

The masses do not care ......it's all about money to them.... Registry Guys, Dealers, Auction Houses, Flippers, collectors, and ebay sellers have all made money using PSA ...right, wrong, or whatever that won't be stopping anytime soon. Maybe a temporary pull back in prices.... that will be about it....

I will Highly Scrutinize any PSA Cards that I'm interested in buying.

[Peter_Spaeth]

PSA does a nice job of fixing damaged corners, eh?

See especially post 35 here.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...09#post1903709

[aconte]

[QUOTEIt is the responsibility of the major stakeholders to get to the bottom of things in a timely manner and then transparently let the hobby know what they have found and what they plan to do to address it and prevent similar episodes again in the future.

A few months time seems woefully insufficient for getting that done, but I would expect that it shouldn’t take more than the time that has elapsed already for some concrete information to be provided.

As for those who continue to create suspicion and doubt through unsubstantiated claims and speculation, that only defects from getting to the bottom of exactly what is and fuels an unhelpful, and potentially damaging, mob mentality.
][/QUOTE]

This is hilarious. I got to wait for a stakeholder to get to the bottom of things
whatever that means.

I've read your posts on CU and I recognize your opinions are on the opposite
ends of the spectrum with mine. Thank goodness!