How Often Are $200+ PSA Sealed Pokemon Cards Messed With?

[Kingturkey11]

Been getting into the card game once again lately and have looked on eBay for some cards I would like to purchase. Some of them range from $200-$1,000 and I'm just wondering how often these are messed around with? IE opened and sealed again to put in fakes, fake packages made and sealed around a fake card etc.

If the card is PSA sealed and the seller has 98+ rating, can I assume that the card is real? Should I send it back to PSA for re-verification?

Never used eBay before so any extra tips on what I should watch out for regarding Pokemon cards would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[donavannj]

The vast majority of collectors keep PSA-graded cards in the screw cases PSA sends them back in.

It would probably be worth investing time in making sure you're familiar with what a legitimate card should look like as well as what the label on a PSA-graded screw case should look like. PSA only grades their condition, iirc. They're not really knowledgeable about what's what in Pokemon cards, iirc.

 

[Demon.]

Never. If would be extremely obvious to tell when a PSA case has been tampered with. As a big time psa collector, i have never seen anything like this happen.