Collectors send their cards to authenticators for one reason: to find out what they’re worth, and usually to make them worth more. A card that comes back graded from an authenticator often comes sealed in plastic with a high grade can sell for many times what it did raw.
This month, a batch of them got the news they’d been waiting for. Their grades were in, some of them perfect 10s, and the cards were on their way home via delivery. But suddenly, the tracking stopped updating.
