I've really had it with the incompetence of the company known as GAI, Global Authentication, whatever they are currently calling themselves.
We've already documented their inability to consistently spot fakes during different portions of their tenure. While that's very troubling, their unwillingness to lift a finger to accurately describe what they are certifying bothers me way more.
From what I can glean, when you submit a pack to GAI (unless it is something very well known and easily identifiable at a cursory glance), you can just describe the pack yourself, and GAI will simply take your word for it and put that description on the flip. So, you can submit a 9th series green pack, identify it as an 11th, and an 11th it will be! When some innocent buyer believes it is an 11th and pays accordingly, then receives a 9th (probably losing in the neighborhood of 50 bucks in the process), the seller can't be held responsible, so the buyer is screwed. This just happened to someone on this forum, exactly as I describe. Outrageous.
So, go ahead, send in some 2nd series packs and identify them as 1st series, maybe a couple of 6ths can become 8th blues, GAI doesn't give a Ratz' ass, their reputation is already tarnished, so why worry about it? And after all, they're only wackys. As long as they are fairly accurate with important things like baseball card packs, no biggie. Oh wait, they certified hundreds of fake 1977 baseball packs as legit, never mind. Disgraceful.