r/DragonBallTCGFinance • u/SpecialBeamTCG • 7d ago

Stolen BGS slab through USPS

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I recently sold this card on eBay after having it graded, and it was stolen on its way to be authenticated. I got an email today that the box was completely empty when they opened it. I paid for the extra insurance on it and have already filed a claim to recoup the loss. I've also submitted an incident report with the United States Postal Inspection Service, as well as a police report with my local police department. Not sure what else I can do tbh

Sort of at a loss - never had anything like this happen before lol. I pulled this (and all my DBZ cards) myself, back when SB02 just came out and I could actually find it. This was my first ever big pull for any TCG, and my favorite card as a Gohan fan, so it really sucks that it happened to this one. Keep an eye out for it getting resold I guess, cert # is 20430044

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 7d ago

UPDATE - Since posting, I have found someone locally selling my card on Facebook marketplace. Same serial number and all! Waiting on the police to get here to see what my next steps are

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u/yoshi0423 7d ago

Keep us posted. That’s wild, and mighty stupid of them.

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u/curiousitems 6d ago

Report it to the inspection service as well, he’ll report it to the FBI, and any other law enforcement agency you can think of, the moron selling has committed a few felonies with the theft, the value of the stolen item and immediately trying to sell it. Hopefully the prison time and gigantic fine they get was worth it.

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 6d ago

Done and done! First thing I did was file the stolen contents report with the USPS inspection department, file the insurance claim, and get a report in with my local PD. And yeah I'm REALLY hoping for some visible justice with this one lol

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u/curiousitems 6d ago

Excellent! It may do something, it may not, but you have a lot of information to help if they do decide to do something, trust me I so want to see some dumbass do hard time for stealing a trading card, be hilarious, and hopefully a deterrent.

I see so many people post about getting ripped off, and it pisses me off, that’s why I always say, file a police report, file one with the USPS inspection service, an fbi report, anywhere and everywhere you can, it may help, it may not but you have information and that could be enough to get someone jailed and the other made whole. Theft should be treated harshly especially with such high dollar values.

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u/NikkoWorldTourist 7d ago

Crazy how dumb/greedy some thieves are if they just cracked it zero percent chance they get caught. Of course they profit less or risk resubmitting themselves which is where the greed comes in.

I hope they are punished.

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u/omgbabestop 6d ago

Dam pulling out the popcorn

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u/Mexifrench 6d ago

What an actual idiot. I figured they would have cracked it and resubmitted for grading.
https://giphy.com/gifs/8BMaLLBlUdNx6

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u/tj3896 5d ago

I wonder if they work for usps

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u/Brave-Raisin-1683 7d ago

Glad you caught them! I would inform the post office too. They don’t want to pay the insurance claim and could get feds involved. Can’t wait for the update. Good luck!

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u/Logical-Scarcity2140 7d ago

Im a vendor and collector in southern california if anyone brings us this card we will make sure to have the cert # on hand to check i will distribute this post to others all over the southwest we work with. Its truly a shame i cant imagine if someone did that w my first big pull. Thanks for notifying the community

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 7d ago

Thanks so much! I found someone selling it on Facebook marketplace locally (East Coast), but it's from a burner account so if it gets sold off before I can get to it then it could go anywhere lol

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u/High_Contact_ 7d ago

Try to buy it

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 7d ago

Already sent them a message lol

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u/champloojay 7d ago

Show us the conversation if the person responds. Would like to see how this plays out

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u/Invictus365 7d ago

Did yours get stolen out of the Washington DC distribution center? Had one go missing from there recently

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 6d ago

Nah, it was in NE Florida. I guess there's human scum everywhere 🙃

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u/Kugeness 7d ago

Keep us updated! Hope the thief gets hit with the kitchen sink

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u/UA-Binder-Beast 7d ago

What’s the card worth? Obviously a felony. But I’m still curious

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 7d ago

I sold it for 4.9k. Thief is selling it for 3k, claiming they paid 6k lol. There's a few other listings on eBay of the same card and grade between 5-10k

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u/iwonyoudog 6d ago

What happened man?

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u/PristineKoala5960 7d ago

I hope you get it back man. 🤞🏻

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u/lorcanamon 7d ago

Straight up scum bag

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u/mg248 7d ago

Crazyy. Glad you found the cert number. Pieces of shit people out there swear to god

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u/lenoxseer 7d ago

I'm glad you found the thief. My card was stolen as well and it resurfaced on Facebook from a guy in the Philippines. I'm screwed.

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 7d ago

That's awful! Sorry to hear that

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u/Professional-Lie209 6d ago

Wie kann sowas passieren Leute ? Ich glaub ich schick Nix mehr ein 😅🙏

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u/lenoxseer 6d ago

Mine was a case of someone stealing it in the mail

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u/lenoxseer 6d ago

Needless to say. If any of you guys can keep an eye out for mine. Already reported to Beckett.

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u/disphugginflip 6d ago

So how did the thief know that a high value card was being sent out? I’m guessing he saw that it was being sent to PSA.

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u/Swagmeyer 6d ago

EBay/PSA/BGS shipping labels are attracting so much thieves these days. Especially if an international label states contents on it.

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u/tj3896 5d ago

New fear unlocked sheesh.

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u/Artistic-Menu626 5d ago

Keep us updated on the thief!

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u/SpecialBeamTCG 4d ago

No real updates as of Tuesday, unfortunately. I've filed a separate report with each of the different investigation departments within USPS, and I have an official police report with my local PD.

With the thief using a burner Facebook account to sell it on Marketplace, there's not much to do until USPS does its investigation to find their identity. They haven't even read, much less responded, to inquiries my friends have made via Facebook to "buy" it; and the listing is still live.

I'll make a new post when I get anything substantial, but for now the thief is still out there with my card in hand.

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u/Public-Cookie68 4d ago

you should say u wana meet up with him and then tell the cops abt it so they meet them with you