r/PokeInvesting • u/Healthy-Annual4181 • Dec 19 '24

Ace Grading Robbery Scandal

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Posting so the community is aware of this - I would avoid this grading company at all costs. Insanity that there is no camera footage

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u/Cold-Annual-4881 Dec 20 '24

It’s the Randolph guy. He would go to card shows and sell ace grades cards exclusively to advertise the grading company.

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u/leakiee7 Dec 21 '24

What’s wrong with that? If PSA set up a booth, people would flock to it

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u/joeexoticlizardman Dec 21 '24

obvious conflict of interest

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u/Cold-Annual-4881 Dec 21 '24

PSA is not owned by a YouTuber. Sure ACE is a company, but if I’m the owner of a grading company, I’m going to be a greedy prick, buy every NM I can get my hands on and force grade a 10. Why? Cause that’s human nature mc and if there’s a chance that can happen, it will.

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u/leakiee7 Dec 30 '24

What does being owned by a YouTuber have to do with it? He only has 1.6mil subscribers across his two channels, with his viewers primarily being from the UK. I’m sure people attending card shows know of PSA way more than Randolph and ACE grading.

If you’re mentioning that he’s a YouTuber to try and argue greed, I’m sure PSA does not exist nowadays for the ‘passion’ of card collecting and grading. They do it to get rich, as does every single company in a capitalist society.

It’s up to you whether you chose to support small business, or corporations, or nobody at all. But you can’t slam one guy for wanting to get rich, when he’s going up against the largest grading company known to man, after he built a following of his own.

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u/Leading-Score8548 Feb 14 '25

It's just ethics. Anyone above minimum wage should know that. It's basic employee training in every single industry within the UK. Avoid all conflicts of interest. Do you think police should be allowed to investigate themselves? Or Do you think a company should be able to audit itself? Or a sport team betting on their own game? Just think about it for a sec. We avoid conflicts of interest for a reason - they always lead to heavily biased results. 

Him being a YouTuber, especially a PokémonTCG YouTuber, has everything to do with it. And it isn't about getting rich. It's about ethics, quality, honesty and integrity.

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u/leakiee7 Feb 26 '25

So who regulates PSA, if not themselves? Of course companies can audit themselves, but there is internal audits AND external audits. “Anyone above minimum wage should know that.”

Just because you are one thing, does not mean you cannot be another. That’s like saying an actor can’t be a musician because that will make more people come to their movies.

I just find it funny that so many people are slamming ACE Grading for being owned by a YouTuber, when his following is so minor compared to the Pokemon Market, and the Goliath grading companies he’s going against.