Simple Poll: PSA 5 w/ Crease -- Disclose?

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

This is one that I recently won from Heritage auctions. I can't believe I missed it. If you were me, would you be happy with this card????

That is a classic! Wouldn't be happy at all with the grading company or a seller/auction house that did not disclose the obvious stain. Maybe you should have caught it but that does not relieve either of the other parties of their obligation to catch it or to point it out IMO. I can see how it would be easier for the seller to have missed it than the grading company.

[Jcfowler6]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

That is a classic! Wouldn't be happy at all with the grading company or a seller/auction house that did not disclose the obvious stain. Maybe you should have caught it but that does not relieve either of the other parties of their obligation to catch it or to point it out IMO. I can see how it would be easier for the seller to have missed it than the grading company.

Wow! Sorry for the raw deal on that card. Are the cases water proof? I was wondering if that stain happened after grading.

[HRBAKER]

Bobby,
Your example brings up another interesting question. If you are the consignor of that card which has been significantly overgraded assuming that is a stain, do you disclose it to the the house just in case they might miss it?

[bobbyw8469]

It is an odd stain that I am going to send it to PSA under their "Grade Guarantee". The back is flawless, so I find it odd that the stain is only on the front?? Not sure what PSA is going to say under the review. If they deem a '7' to be the correct grade, I am gonna flip out, and I will be talking to them in person at the National in Baltimore in 2012!

[iggyman]

One of my pet peeves is with auction houses and graded card lots. Purchasing a single lot of graded cards from major/minor auctions is always a crap shoot. They usually don't show you all the cards, the pictures are sometimes tiny, and nothing about an over graded card in the lot is ever glowingly disclosed. Consequently, you occasionally end-up with some graded cards that were obviously way over graded and included in the lot because they wouldn't have brought much $$$ (for the grade) as a single card lot. You really don't have much recourse with the auction house, so you end-up being somewhat screwed. One day, when I become mayor (or become a major) I will outlaw this practice.

Lovely Day...