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I pm'd Brett today with an idea about posting tampered SPA patches on TCG and he liked it, but he thought I should ask other members for their opinions and fb on my idea.
So here it is:
Over the last few months(esp. the past couple of weeks) there has been several fake SPA's briefly listed on Ebay. Most of these patches are only around for about 24 hours, which is generally the time it takes from when I first notify UD's fraud dept., who in turn contacts Ebay, who then removes the auction from their database. So many of these tampered SPA's auctions are never seen by many. However many of these fake cards are now being sold at shows to unsuspecting buyers, then in turn re-sold on Ebay, only to be yanked again by UD.
With me heading back to teaching in about a week, I won't be able to police Ebay as diligently. So it's possible that many of the tampered SPA's could be live for several days before I stumble across them and if they have a BIN many could be sold. Here is an example of what I am talking about: http://cgi.ebay.com/2005-SP-AUTHENT...6QQcategoryZ111056QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcm
What do you think about having a place on TCG that I could post scans of known tampered SPA patches. This way any TCG members who might be interested in buying a nice looking SPA could cross-check with the database to see if it has been identified as a tampered SPA patch.
Would there be a way to make it where only members of TCG could access the page, in order to keep "guests" from viewing the page also?
If so we could make a post for anyone to see explaining the idea, but you need to be a member to view the page.
LMK your thoughts,
Jeff
PS Please don't suggest that I post all 32,000 of my SPA scans, as I have stated a few times before, it would allow any "would-be" counterfeiters to cross-check their SPA's they were thinking of tampering.
So here it is:
Over the last few months(esp. the past couple of weeks) there has been several fake SPA's briefly listed on Ebay. Most of these patches are only around for about 24 hours, which is generally the time it takes from when I first notify UD's fraud dept., who in turn contacts Ebay, who then removes the auction from their database. So many of these tampered SPA's auctions are never seen by many. However many of these fake cards are now being sold at shows to unsuspecting buyers, then in turn re-sold on Ebay, only to be yanked again by UD.
With me heading back to teaching in about a week, I won't be able to police Ebay as diligently. So it's possible that many of the tampered SPA's could be live for several days before I stumble across them and if they have a BIN many could be sold. Here is an example of what I am talking about: http://cgi.ebay.com/2005-SP-AUTHENT...6QQcategoryZ111056QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcm
What do you think about having a place on TCG that I could post scans of known tampered SPA patches. This way any TCG members who might be interested in buying a nice looking SPA could cross-check with the database to see if it has been identified as a tampered SPA patch.
Would there be a way to make it where only members of TCG could access the page, in order to keep "guests" from viewing the page also?
If so we could make a post for anyone to see explaining the idea, but you need to be a member to view the page.
LMK your thoughts,
Jeff
PS Please don't suggest that I post all 32,000 of my SPA scans, as I have stated a few times before, it would allow any "would-be" counterfeiters to cross-check their SPA's they were thinking of tampering.