FEDEX TRUCK ROBBED FULL OF PSA GRADED CARDS

[horfin]

“A FedEx truck parked near PSA’s Santa Ana, Calif., grading center was broken into on Oct. 13, the SAPD said. Two pallets bearing an estimated 100 packages each were stolen from the truck while a third pallet had an estimated 50 packages stolen. It’s currently unclear how many total trading cards, which had been graded by PSA and were being shipped back to their owners, were included in the stolen packages.”

https://www.thebiglead.com/fedex-tr...llectors-victims-nearly-1-million-card-theft/

 

[SymphonicMetal]

Now they are reporting the total value of the stolen cards is $963,000. The FedEx truck was apparently left unattended for 90 minutes which makes me think this is an inside job. How one of these trucks can be left unattended for that long is a mystery.

I've always been leery of blindly sending cards to these "expert" grading services. Between theft, switching your card for a leesser copy or ecen the grading service damaging the card , it is just not worth the risk. Add to the fact it takes a year to get ones cards back and it is just not worth the agro.

 

[katester44]

The more I see about this, the crazier it gets. Truck left unattended. The lock on the truck potentially wasn't working. Sounds like the value is going to soar past $1,000,000 as they discover more cards that are missing.

Never want to guess at what really happened until ALL the facts are out - but this screams coordinated setup.

 

[metsman1986]

Surprised nothing like that has happened here…….All FedEx packages come to the HQ in Memphis then get shipped to their destination…….

 

[SymphonicMetal]

This story has hit mainstream news today. Apparently the FedEx truck was parked outside the PSA facility. My guess is FedEx leaves an empty truck at this facility and waits for it to be loaded and then picks it up.. I'm guessing no driver was with this truck. So I am leaning towards it was not a negligent driver but someone at the FedEx facility who was either involved or the person who was supposed to keep an eye on this truck had their head up their culo.

The news story I saw this morning seemed to indicate these stolen cards were predominately Pokemom. The 2 guys interviewed who last a lot of cards in this theft were Pokeman dealers.

 

[metsman1986]

You know everyone's pointing fingers...........Just have to wait until things clarify..........Next thing you know, they'll have armed guards escorting the packages/trucks to and from the plane.......

 

[SymphonicMetal]

You know everyone's pointing fingers...........Just have to wait until things clarify..........Next thing you know, they'll have armed guards escorting the packages/trucks to and from the plane.......

I would have thought they would have massive security at the PSA facility as it was. When I was working in the trucking industry, certain loads were REALLY secured. The big ones were firearms (Remington Arms out of Illion, NY specificly), Electronics and CIGARETTES! Hard to believe the latter but those were big targets for thieves.

I'm still speculating that FedEx would drop off any empty vehicle and then pick it up when loaded and replace that with another empty truck. For someone like PSA I can see that being a daily occurence given the amount of daily outbound shipments they would have.

 

[metsman1986]

Yeah, smokes are a huge target because they’re easy to flip on the street corner…….Small, expensive, light weight; it’s the first thing thugs go for…….

 

[SymphonicMetal]

Yeah, smokes are a huge target because they’re easy to flip on the street corner…….Small, expensive, light weight; it’s the first thing thugs go for…….

That and there were no taxes on them so they were much cheaper on the black market.

One more oddity on this case is there is no word of anything being caught on camera. There are surveillance cameas all over the place and in this case and Nancy Guthrie's mom's disappearence there seems to be nothing? The PSA case is new so maybe they are keeping quiet about anything like that but the silence is deafening in this matter. It makes a conspiracy theorist like me wonder.

 

[NYBBNUTT]

Definitely an inside job.

 

[metsman1986]

That and there were no taxes on them so they were much cheaper on the black market.

One more oddity on this case is there is no word of anything being caught on camera. There are surveillance cameas all over the place and in this case and Nancy Guthrie's mom's disappearence there seems to be nothing? The PSA case is new so maybe they are keeping quiet about anything like that but the silence is deafening in this matter. It makes a conspiracy theorist like me wonder.

Kind of like waiting for a toxicology report on a dead rock star............Inquiring minds want to know! NOW!

 

[aoc cards]

Crazy story. One practical upside of slabs is that every one of those cards has a cert number, which makes them a lot harder to quietly resell than raw cards. If you're buying recently graded PSA slabs over the next few months, especially higher-end stuff from a seller you don't know, it's worth asking for the cert number and running it before you pay. And if anyone here had a submission in that batch, I'd keep a list of your cert numbers handy in case any of them pop up for sale.