Cards still being outed on Blowout -- PSA 9 Monte Irvin in the recent ML

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

Having a card within a hundred certs of another card that was found to be altered could suggest your card is included in a submission by someone who submits altered cards. Some of the suspect submissions consisted of hundreds of cards.

And I guess that makes those couple of other certs possible candidates. Not sure what to do about it though, other than wait and see what they find, assuming they keep working through my collection looking for suspicious pieces for me.

But maybe there are some other steps I should take now as a result of the adjacentness to other cards already in the database?

[Peter_Spaeth]

BODA is only able to trace a fraction of altered cards. Sometimes there is a convenient paper trail of an ebay purchase and they essentially get lucky. Most of the time there is not. I wouldn't take much comfort here at least from the BODA after the fact angle.

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by raulus

And I guess that makes those couple of other certs possible candidates. Not sure what to do about it though, other than wait and see what they find, assuming they keep working through my collection looking for suspicious pieces for me.

But maybe there are some other steps I should take now as a result of the adjacentness to other cards already in the database?

I do not know what you have done but altered cards are everywhere in the hobby so while there might be sellers to avoid even that is not good enough. Knowing the card's history helps in that case. Knowing where it was first sold can tell you a bit about the card. This would apply to all cards in your collection unless you decide you only want to focus on cards over a certain value or cost.

Unless you want to collect raw beaters I think you have to accept that unless you have the ability to look at a card while it is in the holder and assess it for doctoring, that you might have bad cards and just leave it at that.