I reached out to Steve Hart from BBCE regarding the Fleer issue and this is what he had to say:
OK, let me explain the process a little bit in detail.
When packages come in for authentication, someone from our team opens the packages and lays it out for me, along with their contact information. These packages come in through the week and then I go to work on the weekends to do the authentication. There is only 1 person who looks at the items for authentication. That’s me. Nobody else here does this job. Just me. We want to make sure its done consistently and correctly. This is why my weekends are completely taken up by this process. Only I can authenticate.
The process that I do involves looking over each and every pack. Not half the box. Not a percentage of the box. But I look over every single pack in every box. It takes time, but this is the way it is done. Believe me, looking over every single pack in boxes of junk wax really can get boring!
So how did this happen with the 1981 pack being in a 1982 box? Well, I first take out a stack of 9 packs and look at the corner folds on all 9 packs as they still sit in the group of 9. I look at both sides. I then look at the roller mark on each of the 9 packs. I do this for all 4 stacks (or 3 stacks or whatever the size box is). The surface of the pack is basically zero percent of authenticating a box. The whole process involves the corner folds, the roller marks and really nothing to do with the top surface of the pack. I do check the surface for price tags (You will see boxes we label as W/Price Tags if they are still on the pack). So with this in mind, the pack is red from both years and has a similar back from both years. The corner folds are the same as is the roller mark. So how did I miss it? Was a simple mistake. Yes, us humans will do that occasionally. I cant walk on water yet, so mistakes can happen. It happened and we will try not to let it happen anymore. We have done over 10,000 boxes of authentication/wrapping and this is the first time I have heard of this happening. Thanks for listening! Steve
Steve Hart
Baseball Card Exchange, Inc.
2412 US Highway 41
Schererville, Indiana 46375
(800) 598-8656
www.bbcexchange.com
bbcexchange@sprintmail.com
06-17-2019, 12:46 PM
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