Bgs Damagaed a card, anyone have a similar situation?

PowellSportCard · 06-11-2020, 05:48 PM

Thought I would share this story with the community and see what similar experiences people have had. So story goes like this: I buy a redemption card in 2014 for a 2013-14 SP Authentic future Watch Auto Patch of Nathan Mackinnon. I redeem it through UD and wait. After over a year of nothing on it, I ask for a replacement card for it. UD sends me a Vladimir Tarasenko Cup RPA as a replacement, at the time it was a very big card. I was super happy with the card, it was a two color patch, and the card was in Mint condition, minimum. I take pictures of the card, never took it out of the original top loader that UD sent it to me in, and send it in to BGS for grading, along with a couple other nice cards. I shipped the package to BGS fully insured, as it was a pretty big order. BGS gets my order, grades everything and returns them. I open my package, and right there staring me in the face is a BGS 7.5 Tarasenko! I grab it and look at it, and cant believe my eyes. Grades are as follows: edges 9, surface 9.5, centering 9.5, auto 10, corners 7?? The top right corner of my card had a huge ding in it that 100 percent was not on that card when I sent it in. I would NEVER send a card in for grading that would have a flaw that bad. I contacted BGS and opened a case and asked if they received my package with any damage to it. BGS replied that the package was not damaged when it arrived to them (being fully insured, I would have been covered if it was damaged in transport), so I than told them that they damaged my card, and brought the value down from a bgs 9.5 selling for at the time $2000+ cad, to a $600cad card. BGS tells me they received the card in that condition. I told them NO YOU DID NOT, and I have proof! So I send BGS the pictures of the card in the top loader that it came to me in, which I NEVER once took it out of, and which VERY CLEARLY showed zero damage to the corner in question. The response from their manager, was that was the way we received it, and that is that. I explained that I have never sent a card in with that type of flaw to be graded, explained how I came to be in possession of the card, and explained that if it was damaged in shipping than all they had to do was mark the package as damaged when they received it, and i could open a case with the carrier. BGS stuck to their guns, said they received it damaged, and that was that. I am in Canada, they are in the US. If i could have, i would have taken them to court for the damages, but it is next to impossible, and very time consuming. I know those corners were gem mint when i sent it in, and that card would have more than likely gem minted, and i would have received $2000+ cad at the time. Instead i sold the card for somewhere around $600 and took it high and dry without a courtesy spit. anyone else have this happen before?

06-11-2020, 05:48 PM	#1
PowellSportCard Member Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Fort St John, BC Canada Posts: 219	Bgs Damagaed a card, anyone have a similar situation? Thought I would share this story with the community and see what similar experiences people have had. So story goes like this: I buy a redemption card in 2014 for a 2013-14 SP Authentic future Watch Auto Patch of Nathan Mackinnon. I redeem it through UD and wait. After over a year of nothing on it, I ask for a replacement card for it. UD sends me a Vladimir Tarasenko Cup RPA as a replacement, at the time it was a very big card. I was super happy with the card, it was a two color patch, and the card was in Mint condition, minimum. I take pictures of the card, never took it out of the original top loader that UD sent it to me in, and send it in to BGS for grading, along with a couple other nice cards. I shipped the package to BGS fully insured, as it was a pretty big order. BGS gets my order, grades everything and returns them. I open my package, and right there staring me in the face is a BGS 7.5 Tarasenko! I grab it and look at it, and cant believe my eyes. Grades are as follows: edges 9, surface 9.5, centering 9.5, auto 10, corners 7?? The top right corner of my card had a huge ding in it that 100 percent was not on that card when I sent it in. I would NEVER send a card in for grading that would have a flaw that bad. I contacted BGS and opened a case and asked if they received my package with any damage to it. BGS replied that the package was not damaged when it arrived to them (being fully insured, I would have been covered if it was damaged in transport), so I than told them that they damaged my card, and brought the value down from a bgs 9.5 selling for at the time $2000+ cad, to a $600cad card. BGS tells me they received the card in that condition. I told them NO YOU DID NOT, and I have proof! So I send BGS the pictures of the card in the top loader that it came to me in, which I NEVER once took it out of, and which VERY CLEARLY showed zero damage to the corner in question. The response from their manager, was that was the way we received it, and that is that. I explained that I have never sent a card in with that type of flaw to be graded, explained how I came to be in possession of the card, and explained that if it was damaged in shipping than all they had to do was mark the package as damaged when they received it, and i could open a case with the carrier. BGS stuck to their guns, said they received it damaged, and that was that. I am in Canada, they are in the US. If i could have, i would have taken them to court for the damages, but it is next to impossible, and very time consuming. I know those corners were gem mint when i sent it in, and that card would have more than likely gem minted, and i would have received $2000+ cad at the time. Instead i sold the card for somewhere around $600 and took it high and dry without a courtesy spit. anyone else have this happen before? Last edited by PowellSportCard; 06-11-2020 at 06:17 PM.