Yikes! From 88 to Auth

[HRBAKER]

There is a very good chance (IMO) that any card that old graded that high has been played with. So if you want to play the resubmit game regardless of your motives (I want it for my registry set, I have all my cards in PSA holders, whatever) IMO you are the one taking a huge gamble just like you did when you bought the 88 to start with. I am assuming the submitter for one reason or another decided that he stood a better chance of it crossing or bumping if it was cracked out, when this hapened the guarantee of any sort was relenquished.

Of course it could be the case that good old-fashioned greed was the reason as well. Don't know but there wouldn't be anything wrong with that either.

And Frank your question gets to the real essence of the situation, what is the most important thing; what the card really is or what the holder says it is.

[buymycards]

I agree with Jeff. It is difficult for me to believe that ANY T206 was cut in the factory, inserted into a pack, shipped to a store, purchased by the customer, removed from the cigarettes, and still survived all of these years with 4 razor sharp corners.

Happy Turkey Day!

Rick

[Rob D.]

If a card is a card, then why do collectors who disdain graded cards and the companies that grade them often have their raw cards slabbed -- or ask an auction company to have them slabbed -- before selling them?

I mean, golly gosh darn, the card's still the same card, graded or raw. Right, fellas?

[Peter_Spaeth]

And the winner of today's rhetorical question award is.....

[FrankWakefield]

Because, Rob, as you already know, when someone's selling a card, the seller is seeking money, not the card. And a graded card might sell to either a card collector, or a collector of graded cards; while an ungraded card would be attractive to fewer potential buyers.

I understand why a seller might get a card graded. That, at least, makes some sense.

[3-2-count]

First off I think it's pretty shitty for anyone to say, "the submitter got what he had coming". C'mon guys!!! And as far as the card in question goes, whether it's good, bad, etc, I personally would have never cracked a card like that for re-submission to both Psa & Sgc. It should have been simply reviewed in it's current holder and lived with whatever decision was made. Once the card was cracked any guarantee that Sgc has in place for re-inbursment on a card wrongfully graded was out the window.
Just a bad decision that was made. Nothing more, nothing less.