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kimo75kimo75 Posts: 263 ✭✭
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I just received the grades for my second submission and have some questions. I sent in a 1968 OPC Stargell that should get an 8. It was not graded for not meeting minimum size standards. It is not trimmed and is the same size as the other 3 Stargells and 2 Clementes that I have from the same year. Now I am 100% sure that they are not trimmed. Can I discuss this with PSA as with all 6 cards being the same size short, this is more than coincidence? They were all purchased from different sellers throughout the US and Canada. Please advise.

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  • GoSoxBoSoxGoSoxBoSox Posts: 1,103
    kimo75,

    This has happened to me on two occasions in cases were I opened the cards from packs myself. PSA, however, still could not grade the cards because of the strict standards for those particular years.

    I have gone along with it in my cases because I can certainly understand the issue they have. The fact is the manufacturer "screwed-up" by cutting the card as they did so how can I hold it against PSA that the card doesn't stack-up against other like cards?

    I think your situation is the same. Let's say your card is otherwise an 8. How can it real receive an 8 if it is shorter than the other 8's? I would feel differently if the particular set in question routinely had cards of various sizes as seen in a lot of pre-war issues. But I'm assuming your OPC didn't have that issue in '68.

    Tough spot for you and the grader.
    There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"
  • kimo75kimo75 Posts: 263 ✭✭
    My argument remains: If all 6 of my 68 OPC's are short the same amount and all at the bottom, isn't that a manufacturing quirk?
  • aconteaconte Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭
    Resubmit it.

    aconte
  • acowaacowa Posts: 945 ✭✭
    Trust Tony!...if the grade doesn't fit...resubmit.

    Regards,


    Alan
  • NonameNoname Posts: 45
    submit it again.
  • NonameNoname Posts: 45
    Psa is not perfect, they do make mistakes.
  • HubcapHubcap Posts: 293
    The first time I got my 1954 Banks rookie graded, it was returned "undersized". So I matched it up against 1954 commons that I had since I was a kid (along with the Banks) and it was perfect. I was dumbfounded how all the cards could be off that much. So on the advice of several PSA dealers, I resubmitted and it graded 6. I submitted the remainder of the commons (24) and two came back "Evid of Trim". So I resubmitted them and they came back a 7 and an 8. Go figure.
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