Has Blowout Cards Abandoned Finding Fraud?

[Peter_Spaeth]

One of the Blowout guys still posts sometimes. But IMO, not much in the hobby has changed, or will change unless there are repercussions. What I call the unholy alliance still continues IMO.

[ALBB]

Yea, Blowout did a tremendous job with " outing " altered cards...all showing 100% proof of what was done..and by whom

[swarmee]

The BODA guys are still at work but lost a trove of historical photographs when Worthpoint decided to clear millions of old eBay scans from their site, presumably to save hard drive space.
If you check the many threads, they are still outing cards, but no longer at the same rate. PWCC getting thrown off of eBay also led to less heat being directed at them, since they're kind of in hiding.
There definitely was an FBI investigation started, and there have been other arrests in the memorabilia space in the last couple of years. It's possible something is still happening, but much closer-lipped than earlier. However, it's possible they also shelved it. Now that the market has cooled, it's quite possible that people who were scammed now bring it to authorities with more regularity, because they are now losing money because of their investments in trimmed/altered cards. When the modern card market was doubling and tripling monthly during 2020-21, it seemed like even the altered cards were worth more than they were bought for.

[1952boyntoncollector]

right i said on many posts nothing will happen and people argued online there was investigation and be patient etc...i kept saying over and over....well been 3 or so years....i bet i can find those posts.....

[ALBB]

I have brought up the question of -

What do many of these high end collectors do...who purchased cards now deemed trimmed/ altered....they have been ripped off for a lot of money..

.Does that collector do the " ethical " thing ,and when he's ready to sell...makes it known ?....or the " unethical" thing..and break the card out of the holder...and try to sell it one day " pretending" he knows nothing about a trim or alter ?.... That decision could cost him thousands of dollars in loses

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

right i said on many posts nothing will happen and people argued online there was investigation and be patient etc...i kept saying over and over....well been 3 or so years....i bet i can find those posts.....

Even a broken clock is right every so often.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Even a broken clock is right every so often.

right ..its correct at least once a day, and i make one a day opinions..

[rjackson44]

This will never end