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Should grading companies archive/case reproductions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard_H" data-source="post: 490015" data-attributes="member: 3919"><p>CAS have reached out to the owner of these items to have them removed. The practice has stopped. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Quote - CAS</p><p></p><p>What a day. As explained in detail below, we have heard and respect the feedback from the community even when some of it was hard to hear, and will immediately cease providing any CAS label that in any way marks or otherwise identifies reproduction items - such items will be rejected for grading and returned to the customer in a sliding bottom case. The community has spoken, and we have listened. As we always will. That means the poll we posted earlier today has been suspended and action will be taken now.</p><p></p><p>Now the facts. The gentleman that submitted these five carded figures (there are ONLY five at issue with this designation, including the Vader and VCJ folks have been sharing images of) submitted them in person to us at a show. He was up front that they were reproductions. We were told they were a gift from his mother some time back, that he didn't want to deceive anyone, but merely wanted to give these gifts a display worthy of their origin from his mom, and wanted them clearly marked and identified as reproductions on the label. So we believed the story and obliged the request, and most importantly were sure to clearly mark them as reproductions on the label. With no grade. This was done just earlier this month.</p><p></p><p>As a result of this experience, we also contemplated marking any items submitted to us as legitimate but that are in fact rejected as reproductions with a similar label - no grade and marking them as repros.</p><p></p><p>But the community has spoken. A practice we initially thought would be embraced by the community - a clear system for marking reproductions for what they are and limiting their ability to fool folks - has clearly been shown to us today to be something the masses think could have the opposite effect. We have heard you loud and clear.</p><p></p><p>To take an extra step, we have convinced the gentleman who submitted the five reproduction figures to us to return them to us so we can remove them from the cases or otherwise do so himself and provide us proof, which we think solves that problem by putting the proverbial toothpaste back into the tube. We are compensating him above and beyond merely just a credit for what he paid for these items as a thanks to him for helping us make this right.</p><p></p><p>CAS is a company composed of collectors like you that merely want to provide positive services to the community we all love and participate in. But we are also human and make mistakes or otherwise may misjudge how folks perceive our actions. But we will always endeavor to do the right thing, and hope with this swift response we are in fact doing so.</p><p></p><p>Thanks as always for your support. We will never stop doing whatever we can to repay that support.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard_H, post: 490015, member: 3919"] CAS have reached out to the owner of these items to have them removed. The practice has stopped. Quote - CAS What a day. As explained in detail below, we have heard and respect the feedback from the community even when some of it was hard to hear, and will immediately cease providing any CAS label that in any way marks or otherwise identifies reproduction items - such items will be rejected for grading and returned to the customer in a sliding bottom case. The community has spoken, and we have listened. As we always will. That means the poll we posted earlier today has been suspended and action will be taken now. Now the facts. The gentleman that submitted these five carded figures (there are ONLY five at issue with this designation, including the Vader and VCJ folks have been sharing images of) submitted them in person to us at a show. He was up front that they were reproductions. We were told they were a gift from his mother some time back, that he didn’t want to deceive anyone, but merely wanted to give these gifts a display worthy of their origin from his mom, and wanted them clearly marked and identified as reproductions on the label. So we believed the story and obliged the request, and most importantly were sure to clearly mark them as reproductions on the label. With no grade. This was done just earlier this month. As a result of this experience, we also contemplated marking any items submitted to us as legitimate but that are in fact rejected as reproductions with a similar label - no grade and marking them as repros. But the community has spoken. A practice we initially thought would be embraced by the community - a clear system for marking reproductions for what they are and limiting their ability to fool folks - has clearly been shown to us today to be something the masses think could have the opposite effect. We have heard you loud and clear. To take an extra step, we have convinced the gentleman who submitted the five reproduction figures to us to return them to us so we can remove them from the cases or otherwise do so himself and provide us proof, which we think solves that problem by putting the proverbial toothpaste back into the tube. We are compensating him above and beyond merely just a credit for what he paid for these items as a thanks to him for helping us make this right. CAS is a company composed of collectors like you that merely want to provide positive services to the community we all love and participate in. But we are also human and make mistakes or otherwise may misjudge how folks perceive our actions. But we will always endeavor to do the right thing, and hope with this swift response we are in fact doing so. Thanks as always for your support. We will never stop doing whatever we can to repay that support. [/QUOTE]
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