Hey everyone.
In the video the guy says that the owner cracked the slab open before resubmitting it for pressing and re-grading. Why would anyone do that? Why nor just send it in for pressing already slabbed and let them do the work and bear the responsibility? I'm still a noob to this whole process but it seems to me that cracking a slab for any reason would void any responsibility for anyone other than the owner.
For all we know the current owner bought it, cracked the slab, cut out the coupon, and sent it in because he/she needed to show a loss for tax purposes or something like that. I'm not saying he/she did, there is just now way of knowing once the slab is cracked.
The other side of the coin would be, if the owner sent it in to cgc slabbed, would they still downgrade it or just bury it to hide their first alleged error?
Trading cards, coins and stamps are easy to verify because they only have 2 sides, but books and magazines and items with anything that cannot be seen will usually come down to a he said / she said.