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Which is really sad. I'm a PR pro and the testimonials that were shared with me were detrimental to the point that I doubt I'd take a chance regardless of how many good testimonials were profiled. It's like betting on an ebayer with a 95% rating...I don't want to be the unlucky one out of 20.

From a business perspective, I don't know why Beckett doesn't make the boxes more lucrative. The cards and slabbing are paid for as a business expense and are written off from the corporate taxes at the end of the year. It doesn't make any sense, from a brand building perspective, why you'd gamble your company's brand equity over a $70 to $170 item. By not guaranteeing at least a card equal in BV, Beckett forfeits the chance to provide its customer base with value added. For example, a voucher to get a card graded for free if you slab four others. This is simple reputation management, or lack thereof. In the grand scheme of things, Beckett is damaging its reputation with its publics and, I'm just assuming, that those posts weren't answered by a Beckett social media relations specialist to mitigate the lack of business by me, and most likely others, who were initially intrigued with the idea.

I just realized how long this became. Like I said, I'm a PR practitioner so I can write forever.

I would take eBay feedback with a grain of salt. I myself have 1 negative on my account from when I upgraded my graphics card in my computer and sold my old one. I shipped it and USPS apparently played a pickup game of something with it and the box was pretty much ripped in half from the picture he sent to me. This was apparently my fault according to eBay and he didn't want to deal with the insurance with USPS so eBay refunded the full purchase to him from my paypal. Then to top it off, guy never even sent it back, when the only thing wrong with it was a fan was rattling which could have been fixed easily by someone with knowledge(myself). AND he left me a negative feedback. So, I wouldn't read into feedback too deeply. Some people are like the person I described and give you a negative for no reason and things completely out of your control. This was a $350 item at the time I sold it I should mention. So I took a $350 loss and got a negative feedback. /endrant