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Originally Posted by superdan49
The problem here is for every issue believed to be solved, another rises up. Like this one I just uncovered:
0010306658 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306659 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306660 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306661 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306662 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306663 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306664 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306665 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
0010306666 2017 Topps Now Offseason Shohei Ohtani/17323 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL
Nine Black Labels in a row. 1,215 copies of this card have been graded. 26 Black Labels (2.14%) have been awarded. 9 of those 26 were given out consecutively on Leaf's January 12, 2018 order.
At least one of these was packed out as a hit in Leaf Greatest Hits Baseball:
(Note from DaRitz: Imaged removed for the sake of everyone scrolling)
Notice Beckett Grading Service likes this tweet. They do not like this thread.
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2500 post ago, the response would have been: 9 in a row is impossible without someone on the inside. People need to be arrested for fraud and mail fraud and bribery, etc...
Posts now: BGS needs to make a comment about their submission methods. It's plausible that they said all along, "We don't reduce our standards on these big orders," and in fact, didn't
intend to reduce any standards.
But it's also plausible that when they make one change to the process (handing a stack of cards for a grader to grade in bulk), that the end result is more Black Labels and 10's.
Some people had access to the special submission system and got a majority of all Black Labels in existence. And they kept doing it.
Joe could legitimately say from the beginning that he didn't have an inside guy.
Brian from Leaf could legitimately say that he'd offer $25k if anyone could prove an "inside man"... with little fear of being proven wrong.
BGS needs to explain why a majority of Black Labels come from a certain submission type. Either it was by design, or it was an unintended consequence. But they messed up either way.