[User Removed] Fraudulent PSA Registry activity -- Patrickdkearns

[ALBB]

all look good from here

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ALBB

all look good from here

Yeap, same thought here too!
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And a T206 not on the registry..

[ZiggerZagger]

Just to close the loop on this, the longtime PSA Registry Assistant Manager did reach out by phone about this weird situation. They planned to call the user and figure out what was going on.

I hadn't thought to check in on it for a while, but just noticed PSA has cleaned out his Registry inventory and cleared those Registry sets out as well. They also removed any history of his rankings.

I guess the lesson is that if you're going to play games with the Registry, at least be subtle about it -- claiming all 7 of the Lucky 7 Ty Cobb T206 backs at once probably isn't a good idea.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I guess?


As Leon says, every thread needs a card -- here's a recent add that was a very long-time coming.

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[raulus]

Glad to hear PSA isn’t afraid to take down a goon engaging in clear and obvious registry shenanigans.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by raulus

Glad to hear PSA isn’t afraid to take down a goon engaging in clear and obvious registry shenanigans.

Imagine if he registered a Mays set.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Imagine if he registered a Mays set.

Not sure anyone would be able to tell that it wasn’t real. Certainly for the basic set anyone could assemble it in about 24 hours. Even in high grade, if you had enough cash, it wouldn’t take more than a year or two. Might set you back $1M or $2M, but you could pretty quickly take the top spot. And it’s not like there aren’t people with that much cash lying around to blow on cardboard.

And even when it comes to some of the larger Mays sets, aside from a few cards that are in very short supply, you could probably assemble 320 of the 356 cards in the master mays set without it being a big deal. And for the rest, it’s not like I would know that you didn’t really have it. You couldn’t add my cards to your set because they’re already in my registry, and that would certainly make it difficult to get some pieces where mine is the only one.

With Mays there’s no dead giveaway like having a fistful of Wagners and Planks, so even in a case like where there’s only 3 total Mays dice game cards graded by PSA (one is mine), if you added 1 of the other 2 to your set (assuming the real owners haven’t already locked them up in the set registry), I sure wouldn’t know that it was all just fake.

[JustBradd]

Originally Posted by raulus

Not sure anyone would be able to tell that it wasn’t real. Certainly for the basic set anyone could assemble it in about 24 hours. Even in high grade, if you had enough cash, it wouldn’t take more than a year or two. Might set you back $1M or $2M, but you could pretty quickly take the top spot. And it’s not like there aren’t people with that much cash lying around to blow on cardboard.

And even when it comes to some of the larger Mays sets, aside from a few cards that are in very short supply, you could probably assemble 320 of the 356 cards in the master mays set without it being a big deal. And for the rest, it’s not like I would know that you didn’t really have it. You couldn’t add my cards to your set because they’re already in my registry, and that would certainly make it difficult to get some pieces where mine is the only one.

With Mays there’s no dead giveaway like having a fistful of Wagners and Planks, so even in a case like where there’s only 3 total Mays dice game cards graded by PSA (one is mine), if you added 1 of the other 2 to your set (assuming the real owners haven’t already locked them up in the set registry), I sure wouldn’t know that it was all just fake.

I wonder if I have any of the 36 you mention in my collection... The pop 1s you have (of course not) but there's a few pop 2/3s that I have.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by ZiggerZagger

.....I guess the lesson is that if you're going to play games with the Registry, at least be subtle about it -- claiming all 7 of the Lucky 7 Ty Cobb T206 backs at once probably isn't a good idea.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I guess?

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King for a day

[jimq16415]

I had a couple small registry sets going and I would get non-stop offers from an ebay seller to buy the sets and he would pay by paypal f&f. His offers weren't great but if you didn't really have the cards that would be ok.

He might have been planning on something like that but with his goals too high.