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Originally Posted by DynaEtch
Says they must be able to identify the artist, and must be from a major trading card company release and on the checklist. Whether this means APs are fair game, idk, but artist probably has to be on the set checklist at least.
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There's so many questions around all this.
I create artist signature pages, as I have mentioned a few times here. Checklists are... inconsistent to say the least. There are times where Cardboard Connection (RIP) was different from Beckett; both would have things not on ePack, and vice versa.
Since manufacturers do not release reliable checklists anymore (where else would CC/Beckett get them?), then what do the grading companies do to be 100% certain? Yes, it's only a handful of differences between the checklists sometimes, but they are differences.
I have several examples of aftermarkets from artists that DID appear on the set (someone commissioned a blank). Those will slip through and be graded--do you really think PSA is going to contact the artist or scour Instagram to see if a particular card was pack-inserted or not?
I have also seen a few times where an artist's cards were all rejected. No reasons are ever given (a common complaint amongst artists), but they are allowed to keep the APs. Weird corner case, but it's happened probably five times that I know of (meaning there are probably more). Artists do not appear on checklists, but they have valid APs. How are the grading companies going to handle that?
EDIT: And for the artists who do not sign their cards, how much work do they put into those?