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Originally Posted by Itse
Many authentication services for collectors items are just scams, run by people with no special expertise and working in unison with auction houses and/or sellers to drive up the value of garbage.
This sounds like that kind of an authentication service.
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This is so true. The sports/collector card boom has been lucrative for places like Heritage auctions. They are regularly selling $200,000+ boxes of wax packs. (For example right now they have a 86-87 Fleer Basketball wax box that is currently bid $150,000 with lots of time left on auction) The biggest obstacle to these large sales is are they authenticand if authentic have they been tampered with in any way. Enter BCE who stamps it authentic and everyone is happy because the majority of people don’t open vintage wax. Although it may be click bait for Paul it is very bad for BCE and the Auction Companies.