Junkdrawer

For years or shall I say decades, the unscrupulous have infiltrated many hobbies where money and markets form. Printing money is a federal offense and earns a minimum 10 yrs. However to recreate a card or item that’s popular is a mere trademark infringement. Perhaps a cease and desist is your punishment. So the baddies hit the hobbies. Years before there were grading companies there were counterfeits of a wide variety of things. Even they have tried to reprint the grading companies labels. So it likely makes more sense to instead surgically open the case the collectibles are inside and replace them with inferior copies. You may think that there is no way that any case can be opened, I think it’s possible. I’m familiar with a seller of a large gold bar he sold to a customer who then sold the same bar back years later, only it was drilled out and filled with lead and perfectly concealed like new. It was later X-rayed and the theft was realized. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. A complex but simple scheme. Perhaps all hobbyists are safe from here on out, but so are the schemers. I’m not trying to say it’s happening here and gonna happen there but I am saying don’t be so trusting. On a side note, the news alone hits the market/hobbies as well. To be perfectly clear, I’m not speaking about comic books in general, but all collective gradedable items. Yes that means those sealed video games that are now graded are all legit. People that graded them likely weren’t old enough to have first hand knowledge or seen multiple examples to even compare. I could go on and on and on about things I’ve heard and witnessed over the years as a collector of many things. Boo!

If you collected stamps, you wouldn’t have such problems.

So it’s safe to paint all the graded collectibles markets and grading companies under suspicion? I hope prices drop like hell.

What’s the latest news going forward? Is it just business as usual? Is there tamper evident holders in play? I haven’t had my finger on the pulse on this matter. Thanks,

Looks like it scratches easy

Back in the dawning days of VHS stores renting tapes out. They were expensive and the “unscrupulous” would open/tamper the plastic shell and remove the original and replace it with either a copy, a blank, or whatever. The good guys put a security label that was tamper evident. CGC simply needs a tamper evident sticker.

In the auto world it’s called a “vin job”

https://www.ebay.com/str/junkdrawer12063?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tMtKfnwYT4y&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=tMtKfnwYT4y&store_cat=82903837013&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

https://www.ebay.com/str/junkdrawer12063?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tMtKfnwYT4y&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=tMtKfnwYT4y&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

https://www.ebay.com/str/junkdrawer12063?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tMtKfnwYT4y&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=tMtKfnwYT4y&widget_ver=artemis&_sacat=63&media=COPY

This book is in the top 3% of all universal copies. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335083924521?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=tMtKfnwYT4y&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=tMtKfnwYT4y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

How about I bump this thread from page 11?

I’ve had a few submissions go GEI to shipped this week.

Oh I was in park.

Very happy to have this back today. Top 3%