I have never even submitted a card for grading but even I knew that sending in an 'altered' card was against their ToS (Terms of Service) or whatever they call it. I have never known how useful those would really be to PSA though when things get down to brass tacks in a court of law, if they ever do. But they are probably nice for PSA to be able to point to - see, we require stating the cards are authentic and problem = elsewhere.
Meanwhile there is that Guarantee and TPGs pointing complaints back to an auction house pointing a complaint back to the actual consignor pointing back to the TPG.... an all too perfect pass-the-buck system for all 3 of the parties.
And if relatively nice vintage cards, but altered ones, are submitted (and then rejected) by a scammer multiple times it would probably be inevitable that the scammer would then just dump them raw, in a lot, to some other dealer, and that whole idea is so obvious that of course that next dealer's easiest recourse is to just claim "I was scammed" - even if they are actually a scammer, too. Or even if they are not.
What a mess. Just measure the damn cards already. It ain't rocket appliances.
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