This crossed my mind too but, either way, he’s just trying to hurt the hobby. Where’s his video with close ups from all angles?
I can’t find the video but there was one the other day. Long story short, he was live on stream and there was a psa 10 yugioh card (i believe he was the middle man) and he thought the card was not deserving of a 10. Members on stream were saying do not crack it as it’s not your card. He completely ignored everyone and popped it open with his hands. Unsure if the picture I posted originally is off the same guy but yeh I’ve seen it done with hands. I’ve also seen it done with a bottle opener on the corner without causing any damage. Either way there are some dodgy people out there
So he was middle-manning and decided to break open a guys card he was middle-manning for?
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Yeh I believe so. Unsure if it was the guy who I posted the original photo of
Remind me to never let him middleman for me or any of my friends lol.
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Yeh that’s the one ! Such a shit move to do, not his card so shouldn’t be doing that
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@garyis2000 Here’s the since deleted IG post, he middled the card for someone, didn’t agree with the grade & cracked it out even though it wasn’t his card.
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Uhhhh 1st ed SDK Blue Eyes? That’s a lotta money to be “taking justice into your own hands”
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God I hate IG/Facebook
Yeah he’s gotten a lot of hate from the community recently for what he did. A 10 SDK is like 2k. Even though its likely misgraded there’s definitely ways you can resolve this issue differently. Pretty much any other choice would have been better than what he did, which was cracking the card without consent of the owner lol
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When PSA vigilantism goes too far - yikes.
What a fucking moron if he did it without the owners permission…
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He’s pretty firm in believing he’s a good person for not charging the owner a grading fee/shipping or whatever. Guess this guy was in way over his head… without even knowing basic PSA compensation rules. It’s one thing to make a mistake (though this is far beyond a mistake) but he also tripled down IIRC. Poor choices!
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He owes him the value difference between the 10 and whatever it gets whenever it gets its “proper grade”.
I mean look at those scratches though.
Dude’s got moxie. Just like the guy who cracked his own yugioh card, cleaned it then it came back with a nice new residue.
Nice job PSA
People keep commenting about it being the “new label case”.
This has nothing to do with the label, it has everything to do with their new case, which I made an extensive thread about here:
www.elitefourum.com/t/psa-has-just-changed-their/19843/1
The cases are thinner, ever so slightly and also weigh considerably less.
This is an interesting development though =\
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@ozenigma I was wondering about the different inscribed “PSA” logos. Yea what this guy did really bugs me. He must’ve had permission surely? How did people figure out how to crack them barehanded anyways? Slide fingernails in between and pull with all your might? I am on the “PSA needs to get their shit together boat” after a recent misgrade.
That is insane. Sure he made a lot of shade with his following after that! Is the video still out there?
Does anybody here really believe this tommyrot poppycock story?
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Everything I’ve seen or read about it only gives me more to question. Pictures alone don’t do it for me. Breaking it with his bare hands? Did you guys see those hands? They don’t look like they break much (no offense to the guy.) Where does the case break? I have plenty of new cases and there is no seam or area that looks vulnerable. Why would he break someone else’s card out? Where’s the video or pictures before it was broken out? Where’s the video of him doing it? Where’s the proof of any of these claims? Questions, questions, questions. What do those cases look like in person? What do they look like scanned or in good lighting?
If I found a vulnerability in a case I’d immediately email PSA with proof and an explanation behind it. Why post on instagram if this is a real exploit? So you can make the problem worse? It doesn’t make sense in any way.