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Everything posted by wombat
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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.
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I'm not really sure how they could do it without it becoming apparent to someone, and they'd probably like the public to know what to look for etc, just a thought I'm not sure how well it would go over if it was "we made changes, but we won't tell you about them". How many people would actually believe changes were made?
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I dunno. I don't see it as a downplay, more like a cautionary stance. No one wants to scream "the sky is falling!" when it's their own reputation on the line. They're probably going forward cautiously and not overstating the problem. I don't see that as underhanded at all - I'm glad it's been addressed. It still remains a possibility that CGC will not widen the scope and just "assume" it was this one bad actor. There is also the issue of now that we know the slabs can be cracked and put back together pretty well that every case out there can be tampered with and a lower grade book be swapped in without even sending it back to CGC. I have no idea how they would even begin to deal with this.
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That is psychotic. Just sayin.
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The thing that seems odd to me is that CGC is acknowledging something is happening from the statement we saw from CS. At that point I would think you would make a statement. I mean they already are, but only to people who ask about it. So now only some people have the information. It would be easy enough to say something along the lines that we are aware of "something" and are looking into the matter. If anyone has any specific concerns please contact us.
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Unless I don't understand you, this all started because we could see that an ASM 252 that had been reholdered with a custom label had a different comic inside the cert #, because CGC had scanned the lower grade comic in to the grader's notes. Got it. This would be really bad if CGC knew something was up and still let reholders through without checking them.