Any luck with SCD?
mrc32
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Have people had good or bad luck, crossing over cards graded by SCD?
I had heard some people say that they grade trimmed cards. Is that true? What can you share?
I'm not super concerned about crossing the cards over to a certain high grade, I just don't want to buy a SCD card that is trimmed.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I had heard some people say that they grade trimmed cards. Is that true? What can you share?
I'm not super concerned about crossing the cards over to a certain high grade, I just don't want to buy a SCD card that is trimmed.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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I have no direct experience, but I have not heard that SCD knowingly grades trimmed cards. That isn't to say they might not sneak into a slab. I can't speak to their ability to catch trim jobs. I have never seen any of the usual trim suspects offer SCD, so thats a good sign.
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My experience wasnt too good.
I liked their holders and grading scale but it seemed that they were a little loose on the grades.
Most of the SCD 8 or 8.5 would come back as psa 7, but once in a while I would get a straight cross-over to a psa 8.
It just wasnt a good gamble.
I am not surprised that SCD would get out of the grading business, they should spend more time and effort working on their publication business and make their weekly paper better and leave the grading to the experts at PSA.
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<< <i>From my understanding, SCD will no longer be grading cards. I guess it wasn't a profitable venture for them. So Star cards will once again be left out in the cold. >>
Is this so? I thought their "11" had really taken the hobby by storm..
to PSA. None of them were trimmed
or altered, but all of them dropped
2 grades in the crossover.
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<< <i>Is this so? I thought their "11" had really taken the hobby by storm.. >>
BEEFCAKE - I always liked the "untouched" card. Taken straight from a pack, set or box.
Still to this day, I'm confused how that process worked. Say you sent in a '69 wax pack,
so I guess the grader would open the pack and grade the cards with the "untouched"
moniker. But say the cards are way oc or has other print defects. You now have a bunch
of low grade cards w/ the "untouched" on the slab ...jay
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<< <i>Is this so? I thought their "11" had really taken the hobby by storm.. >>
BEEFCAKE - I always liked the "untouched" card. Taken straight from a pack, set or box.
Still to this day, I'm confused how that process worked. Say you sent in a '69 wax pack,
so I guess the grader would open the pack and grade the cards with the "untouched"
moniker. But say the cards are way oc or has other print defects. You now have a bunch
of low grade cards w/ the "untouched" on the slab ...jay >>
You got it exactly - when they first debuted the grading service (the "big announcement" at the 2001 Chicago Sportsfest) they had a whole bunch of dealers sit around and open up packs that Larry Fritsch had from the '70s, using cotten gloves. This way, all the cards would be untouched and they could holder them - and they did, some getting 6.0 "UT" notations.
I always wondered - what if you brought them a searched pack??
Seriously, I just breezed through this week's SCD (disappointing, because it used to provide 3 days worth of shredded paper for packing, now it's down to 1 day's worth) - they have a bunch of ads for their bat/game used authentication service, but NOTHING for cards.
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