Announcing "Collectors Forensics Register" - Revolutionizing the Hobby

[Collectors Forensics Reg]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Is any of this proprietary? Camera, blacklights, and zooming are nothing new. What would keep PSA or SGC from adding this to their service for half your price (and if they do, I want a cut!! It was my idea to add it!! ). I would say that people trust these well established companies far more than your new start up.

How about this scenario. Buy one of your wonderfully secure PSA 9 cards. Get it home, get rid of sticker, crack the slab, add my not so wonderful PSA 7 and resell without your little sticker. I do not care how secure you think it is, without that little sticker and number on the slab, it means nothing. The only thing that would happen is my buyer would then submit it to you and cry foul. But by then I am long gone...(by the way...people know me here and know I would never do this but this is not something way out of bounds)...

One more thing...your Comparative Arbitration idea is misguided...you are essentially charging people a small fee to see if you made a mistake or it was tampered with. If you services are so great...why would you even need this and for a fee no less.

So again...I say...

Really?

Joshua

The hologram that is applied to the capsule when the card is registered has the web page printed on it, so it is really applied more as a matter of convenience to show that it is registered and for quick reference.

All that any potential card purchaser needs to do is go to the cfreg.com web site and search for the grading company's assigned serial number, which is printed right on the informational flip. If the card is found as registered, you just caught perpetrator in the act and saved yourself some grief.

If you purchased the card first, then suspected fraud, you could send it to us for a comparative arbitration which would compare the suspect card to the one that was originally registered. You would receive a report which would conclude that the card was a different card that what was registered and you would have a case to recoup your loss with forensic evidence to back it up.

Which mistake are you referring to Joshua? We are not making any judgements in the process of registering the card, we're just recording its forensic properties.

As we said yesterday. this is a service that will take time to be learned and accepted. The holographic label is a convenience - ANY GRADED CARD that you are purchasing should be searched for on the cfreg.com site first as a regular practice. Not checking would be like buying a dozen eggs and not checking if any were broken. It really just comes down to a culture of common sense. We are giving the hobby a reference tool to use that's free... why not leverage it?

So the answer is... yes, really :-)