URGENT HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED: Hi guys, I write today as a sad sad man. My entire collection was stolen out of a CGC package delivered to me on Sunday 06-15 in Manhattan (kips bay) which totaled to 146 CGC slabs, about 5 years of passionate curating time, and a whole lot of man tears.
I am SOL on a plan besides already filing a police report and working with a detective since this, as you’ll see below, qualifies for grand larceny. All the slabs have start with cert # 60496, PLS let me know if you come across it online/fb marketplace. Any advice here warmly welcome and anyone who helps recover them or even just one will be generously rewarded.
How were they stolen? The package ripped into, lost in the mail, stolen from the porch? I know CGC delivery always requires a signature (for me anyway)
Regardless that’s very saddening and I wish you the best of luck.
Without giving away personal details, if you could describe it more that would help
Really sorry to hear this, it’s got to be an awful feeling finding out this was all taken.
If your neighbor signed for a package, I would absolutely make sure the police are aware of that detail. Unless there is something else I’m not understanding, mail being taken by them is a major issue (both between the neighbor and Fedex). How were you able to find out that your neighbor signed for the package?
I’ll keep my eyes peeled. Wishing you all the best!
Since it was shipped by a grading company, it should absolutely be insured so you should be reaching out to cgc about this 100% as well as the inept fedex (though good luck with that they’ll basically tell you to screw yourself despite them clearly being at fault here – the idea that it is within their policy to allow neighbors to sign for something is insane but that doesn’t mean they can leave something sitting out in a mail room).
You have a simple case for insurance payout. You didn’t sign for the package, a neighbor was allowed to, and somehow the high value package was left out in a public space? Yeah, that’s not how signature delivery works at all. Hopefully you took photos of the package ripped open in the mailroom etc but at the same time the big evidence is fedex not getting your signature and leaving it in a public space.
Also it is good to file the police report simultaneously as you are. If this is a key accessed apartment building where only tenants can access the mailroom, that is a big deal. Means most likely a tenant or someone staying with them did this, so that is a lead for them. It’s also not just about the felony for value, it’s also mail theft and tampering, another felony. Sorry that happened to you and for everyone on this forum it is yet another — perhaps for the 1000th time at this point — case of fedex completely screwing over someone so hard that it’s unfathomable how consistently bad they are at this point.
Get in touch with cgc, their insurance should be dealing with this in tandem with your correspondence from fedex, both will be needed to reach resolution. DO NOT accept any payout or agree to anything from fedex.
I’m really sorry to hear that this happened to you.
Because these are modern cards, I imagine that the thief would crack them out of the case to sell raw or regrade. It’s sometimes easier to track down stolen vintage cards based on holo pattern, wear, printer defects, etc., but modern has too many copies floating around to discern yours from others.
As others have recommended, do not take the payout offered by FedEX. Go through CGC and their insurer. CGC will have insurance on the package, but because it was signed for and delivered, their claim may be denied.
Someone in your building may be the culprit, so it will be important to speak to your neighbor and get their statement documented by the police.
Sorry if I’m missing something but I’m a little confused. Are you saying everyone in the complex has access to everyone else’s deliveries without any sort of oversight? That just seems insane to me.
It must require at least a badge or something to access right?
Either way I’m really sorry this happened to you. I’ll keep an eye out.
and anyone who helps recover them or even just one will be generously rewarded.
