More shady / bad / whatever you want to call it news - PSA

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Over on one of the hockey forums I am apart of, long story short:

Guy submitted a bunch of cards and declared low value to save some money

One of the cards was a 15/16 Upper Deck Young Guns Buyback McDavid /97 ( for those who dont know, he is Top 2 in most expensive current players in Hockey )

PSA claims to have accidentally thrown the card out, they say they have video proof of this action.

Guys declared value of the McDavid was $499 ( its closer to a $2500 card )

PSA offers the guy $499 refund or $499 in credit.

People are claiming PSA or the grader stole it.

In the same order he sent in a Trae Young 1/1 Prizm Rookie, he claims the card was mint to the naked eye ( no proof on this ) this is prob a $3500+ card.

The card comes back a PSA 9, but upon further inspection the card has a huge crease, not something PSA or anyone thats into cards could overlook. Did PSA just slab it a 9 in hopes it would be overlooked? The 1st time I heard “buy the card not the grade” was from the Pokemon community.

With the McDavid, IMO both parties are to blame here. Of course, mistakes can happen, and I dont see PSA stealing the card ( grader could be a different story ), but it can get lost. As someone who works with cards for their job, it is easy to misplace / lose certain items if you arnt being careful enough. Shame on PSA for losing a card, but they are in the right in offering what the owner claimed as value. Shame on the owner for trying to save a few bucks, as he most likely is SOL with this card.

With the Young, ive heard people in the Pokemon community say cards have come back much lower than they expected, and upon further inspection of their card, there is damage when they know for a fact the card was not damaged when sent in. Maybe PSA has to pull a BGS, and stop submissions for whatever amount of time to let their graders catch up, or take a little more time and care in the handling / grading process

Be careful with what you claim on your PSA submissions because you never know what might happen!

Heres the thread:

www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1301445

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Idk… to me that doesn’t look like a legit psa email. Seems to
Informal.

But who knows

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Always.
Fully.
Declared.
The.
Value.

ESPECIALLY $1000+ cards! I don’t understand how people are perfectly fine taking that gamble to save a few bucks on grading cost. Thank God I recently won a damage claim with PSA and had fully declared the card they damaged or I’d be in the same boat as OP.

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PSA is crazy informal… the rep I was working with the last 3 months was using actual emojis when emailing me…

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:flushed:

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Ooof, how does PSA throw away the card though? Not again Billy!

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If you declare a card at $499 and it gets lost or significantly damaged, it is unfortunate but you’re not entitled to anything more than $499.

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100% agree

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How does a card get thrown away? That shouldn’t be a possibility.

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Not only is it not a possibility but a PSA Customer Service employee would NEVER say that. “Oh sorry, we tossed it” lol

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How can you be so sure?

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So this guy has a nine with a crease?
Hes lucky im not his middleman

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I’m confused why they’d throw a card away in the first place. It’s not theirs.

On the other hand, guy got what he set himself up for. Played the game and lost in this case.

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Yes he posted pictures in the link I provided. I dont think he used a middle man but I am not sure

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I dont think anyone would purposefully throw away a $2500 card =P

I do agree, the owner did back himself into the corner claiming so low. Im sure it gives PSA a legal out.

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I got a good giggle out of this, haha!

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Why are you sending you’re cardboard to unknown people?

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I’m more confused where in the process there is a potential for a card to be thrown away I guess. There’s a huge incentive as a company not to make these kinds of mistakes because it does demonstrate incompetence.

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