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Should grading companies archive/case reproductions?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheJabbaWookie" data-source="post: 489983" data-attributes="member: 9217"><p>I can't see a situation where an honest collector who has sent his item in for grading and learns it is reproduction, would want it returned with a big reproduction sticker on it. If it was loose they would want it returned in order to hunt down the original weapon and not have it encased in a tomb. If it was a MOC they would want to strip it of its fake surround and display the original figure (if its accessories were indeed original), or to contact the original seller and return it in the same condition to get a refund. </p><p></p><p>In addition if I was a real bonafide, honest collector and couldn't afford a real figure or MOC, and bought a reproduction one in its place deliberately, I wouldn't send it in to be graded... I couldn't be doing with the extra costs of shipping and grading... if I liked acrylic I would just buy a GW Acrylic case. </p><p></p><p>The only people who would be using this service and benefiting from those labels in their current form, would be those looking to deliberately deceive, and then the reproduction label would not deter them as they could just smash it open. </p><p></p><p>Clearly if CAS started marking them much more clearly it would probably deter the scammers but that just proves that the only people that stand to profit here are the grading companies who get more money from an unnecessary market, at the detriment of the honest collectors who have to wait even longer for their items to be graded. </p><p></p><p>Oh and the Repro market that benefits from a rise in prices (like we've seen with Toy Toni's and Darren Orme's replicator boxes) from the increased presence and partial legitimisation of reproductions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheJabbaWookie, post: 489983, member: 9217"] I can’t see a situation where an honest collector who has sent his item in for grading and learns it is reproduction, would want it returned with a big reproduction sticker on it. If it was loose they would want it returned in order to hunt down the original weapon and not have it encased in a tomb. If it was a MOC they would want to strip it of its fake surround and display the original figure (if its accessories were indeed original), or to contact the original seller and return it in the same condition to get a refund. In addition if I was a real bonafide, honest collector and couldn’t afford a real figure or MOC, and bought a reproduction one in its place deliberately, I wouldn’t send it in to be graded... I couldn’t be doing with the extra costs of shipping and grading... if I liked acrylic I would just buy a GW Acrylic case. The only people who would be using this service and benefiting from those labels in their current form, would be those looking to deliberately deceive, and then the reproduction label would not deter them as they could just smash it open. Clearly if CAS started marking them much more clearly it would probably deter the scammers but that just proves that the only people that stand to profit here are the grading companies who get more money from an unnecessary market, at the detriment of the honest collectors who have to wait even longer for their items to be graded. Oh and the Repro market that benefits from a rise in prices (like we’ve seen with Toy Toni’s and Darren Orme’s replicator boxes) from the increased presence and partial legitimisation of reproductions. [/QUOTE]
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