Tell me its the scanner!

carew4me

Thats an ugly stain for a straight 9 ??!!?!?

downgoesfrazier

Yes, it is. The question I always ask myself is "Was it missed or tolerated"? I can defend the grader in both cases, but it doesn't make it a card I'd like to own. Quite frankly, that centering doesn't exactly SCREAM "9", either. I think I'd be more tolerant if the rest of the card is all there. The stain becomes pretty forgiveable. When you've got borderline centering AND a stain--you've got a "dog".

dgf

MorrellMan

Didn't I read somewhere on these boards something about PSA cert #s that start with "1"?

miami3

No, I dont think that its on the scanner.

The stain appears to me to be on the card.

That card sure looks like a PSA- 8 or at best a PSA-9 with a ST qualifier.

This is the thing that bugs me the most about PSA........their grades have been all over the place lately.

I think it was Forrest Gump who once said " submitting cards for grading is like a box of candy, cause you never know what your'e gonna get" or something like that.

....................Just my two cents.

Jim

Wabittwax

That definately looks like they missed that. Those stains come a lot from vending for some reason. I've submitted a few in the past with smaller stains than that and they ALWAYS come back an 8 or lower, so I don't submit cards with that stain anymore. That stain is not tolerated for 9's, so they either missed it or didn't train a new grader properly.

Pinchdatail

And they missed the big red arrow, too.