Why is Tom Brulato no longer reimbursing purchase price in the event of a book being determined to have been trimmed?
When was this communicated?
I've asked about sending two books in and whether I would be reimbursed if the worst proves the case.
Harshen advised that I would receive submission credits.
This is unfortunate. I have two books in my JIM registry that have suspicious serial numbers, and so I would like to send them in for re-evaluation. Unfortunately, I could be out a whole lot of money by doing so, now that I no longer stand the chance to be re-imbursed for these blue label books, should they be found to have been trimmed. Not much of a guarantee from Certified Guaranty Company.
To play devil's advocate, let's say the book is restored. Why does CGC have to reimburse you the price of the book? They didn't sell you the book. They didn't do the restoration. They made a mistake in their resto check. They should reimburse you the cost of their services since they failed in that instance. But to ask theyto pay you back on the money you gave someone else is too much. If you bring your car to a mechanic to have it looked at and they find the new brakes put in by a different mechanic are faulty do you force this mechanic to reimburse you for work the other mechanic did? No.
If CGC did what many of you suggest, they would go bankrupt. It is the person who orginally did the restoration who should do the reimbursing. Now, if there was found to be collusion between CGC and the restorer then that is a different story. But no one is suggesting that.
I never suggested that CGC reimburse me the price of the books.
The problems are two fold: (1) Brulato no longer stands up for his role in the Ewert fiasco, and no longer offers refunds for doctored books he sold; (2) the quality of CGC restoration detection remains of concern, since there are no data available to the public that address either the frequency with which trimming has been identified on blue labeled Ewert subs, or the ability to reliably detect this type of trimming currently.
Sorry, i thought you were hoping CGC would reimburse you. I do agree with you Brulato should continue to reimburse people. I agree that CGC should post the master list of Ewert subs but I don't see how knowing the # of books found to have been trimmed helps. I also don't know how CGC could prove their ability to detect trimming is reliable. How do you prove that? How do you prove that a book has NOT been trimmed?
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