Beware Carterscards2006

[Peter_Spaeth]

Todd:

I respectfully disagree with you as to the nature of what the seller of a TPG graded card is representing in today's marketplace. The whole point of TPG is to provide an OPINION as to a card's authenticity and grade, in a domain where outside of obvious cases these issues are essentially matters of opinion and inference. The very fact that TPG flourishes is a testament to the marketplace's collective discomfort with authenticating its own cards. As a result, that TPG opinion has a certain value in the marketplace, according to how reliable the market thnks the TPG is. Thus, if I sell a PSA 8, I am not personally representing that the card is authentic, I am representing that PSA thinks it's authentic and that it is in NM/MT condition -- how the hell do I know, especially when it's inside a holder?

PS If the card is so OBVIOUSLY trimmed such that any dealer should have known, that might be different, because perhaps one could infer deceptive intent.