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Lets see if you can find the one card that doesn't belong... which one is the counterfeit card.

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Reports of Fake or Altered cards in PSA and BGS slabs are skyrocketting in 2020.

ALERT: Fake – Trimmed – Altered – Graded Cards by PSA or BGS flooding consignment services and eBay.

2020 RED ALERT

This is the alert from sportscardradio.com.

Being this is the year of the tulips in sports cards the fakers and scammers are in full swing. Being in PSA or BGS slab doesn't mean it is real or unaltered. They are only good as their last big miss. Think twice maybe three times before making any large purchase online. You should look at the card carefully, ask the questions, compare true originals, visit a card shop and look at them.Take a lot of time before the purchase. If anything feels off. Stop and walk away. Quite a few on eBay are listed in the article below. I stick with raw cards because they are easier to identify during some years against reprints, fakes, and altered cards. Once you see an original in good form in a slab then compare that with others... the red flags are easy to identify. Same with identifying raw card authenticity. Do you due diligence.

Below is the link to a riveting article and sources of good information and draws scrutiny perhaps mostlynfrom scammers and players in the card collecting world.

http://www.sportscardradio.com/alert-fake-trimmed-altered-graded-cards-by-psa-or-bgs/

Numerous cards have been found to be fake or altered in graded slabs. Grading is only as good as the grader and at the volume people are sending in cards, don't expect quality grades. So many cards that are off center still get Mint Gem 10 while another grader may give it a MC or OC flag. This is rampant especially with modern cards. Most young collectors don't care about centering while the most scrutinizing collectors do.

The 2020 tulip mania is in sports cards

So what a year 2020 has turned out to be. Pretty much ready for it to be over. However, some lockets of culture and humanity overflowed with exuberant speculation. No not the stock market, but the sports card collectibles market.

Sports card prices peaked in August after 5 months of hyper growth and when Covid got people sitting in front of eBay all day and the fact that people bought up cases of cards like was toilet paper in March amd April in the peak of it.

Fractures in the sports cards market are showing as prices are falling faster than they went up and Panini seems to be set to ship out next year's cards in time for the 2020 holiday shopping season. Laker's championship cards are available for preorder now on NBA.com.

Another dynamic of the trading card market is graded cards craze. Only two very reputable companies exist, PSA and BGS. There are some early cards graded by BCCG and SCG, but should stick with pre war cards if dealing with the latter. However, as with any company, they want to increase revenue and profit. In turn, the numbern of graded cards saturating the market is getting to a point where weaknesses in the quality of grading has come to question as well. So many modern cards graded as 10, typically the top grade have faults or are off center. The liberty given to early pre war cards due to their scarcity but now litters the collector's market.

I am a strong believe a modern uncentered card even if proportionate should not get a 10. Period. This is further backed by the fact that uncentered sports cards sell at nearly half the price of a gem mint centered on both sides card.

Fastforward to now. Prices are falling and those who have hobbied in cards for years finally have the chance to offload some of the millions and millions of cards sitting in people's closets and get back into the sports cards collelctibles market.

Like any fad, and at current levels that is what it seems like today, it will ease and prices will return to earth. So pick your cards wisely, pick players you like and are collectible. So when you realize they may be just worthless pieces of paper they still hold some value, so if prices drop to the levels of 5 years ago it is easier to wait for the next tulip mania.