wombat

Why would anyone do this? Seems very risky.

It will be a numbers game for a lot of people. You are eyeing up an 8.0 Hulk 181. If you think there is a 1% chance it might have been swapped what do you do? Or maybe you think 5%. Or .1%. Everyone will have a difference risk tolerance.

Agreed. But the issue is the "most" people. So how many others (which I'm sure to your point would be a small number) have either been doing this or will. You also have to factor in how likely someone thinks they are to get away with something and way the risk reward.

Probably not the greatest analogy.

I would like to raise my hand and say I don't really know the steps to successfully pull off an armed robbery of a gas station.

The good news is after my first pass at the list I came up with 22 I would be very happy with. And I'm pick 15. Not that there weren't others I would like, but these were the top picks. Also, I 100% will pick my own offering if it gets to me at 15. Its pretty good.

I guess I should look at the list.

This seems like some weird flexing about which scandal is worse. You kids and your scandals today. Back in my day.............

I think most people would assume that if in fact a slab had been tampered with and cracked open and sealed back up it would at least appear to be obvious. I don't think anyone is assuming a slab can't be cracked open. That would just be silly.

Imagine being at a con trying to buy a slab and trying to look up and compare pictures on your phone.

If the expectation is that every person who buys a CGC slab has to start comparing pictures that seems like not a great solution. And of course ignoring all the books pre pictures.

I think people expected at least it would take more than a hair dryer and some glue to sneak past CGC.

CGC scandals bringing people together since................forever.

Well, they know who one of the culprits is. Are there more than one? Who knows. I'm guessing they aren't looking too hard.

Have any of the big dealers chimed in? Don't recall seeing any comments.

But if someone swapped out a similar grade cover with something wrong in the interior even our most trusted dealers won't know.

The scammer could use the QC thread as evidence. Clear examples of the wrong books being put in slabs. And damage occurring after books were sent in. Its a good point CGC would want nothing to do with that in court.

If I was a betting man, there is zero chance CGC is looking beyond the one known bad actor. They will deal with the consequences of that decision if there ever are any.

Is CGC's product not worthless if you don't have confidence the book in the slab is the same book that was sent to them and you can't tell the slab was opened up?

It certainly seems like extreme negligence that there is such an easy way to crack open the slabs and seal them back up where even CGC doesn't spot it. What kind of testing did they do on these slabs? It wasn't rocket surgery at the end of the day. And shouldn't they have had experts who know about this kind of thing? Their entire business model and product is completely worthless if it can be easily tampered with.

Its whatever CGC says it is.

What if sending in the reholders was only part of his scam. The other was just swapping and selling without sending back to CGC.

I feel really bad for anyone who got scammed. I feel even worse for the meat grinder you will have to go through with CGC.