Giving PSA it's due.....Consistency!

Nuyauwka

I just received a submission back that I had been waiting on for a longtime. Customer Service actually did help push it through once I called and said I was told the date received was when the days started counting off, not the entered in the sysyem date, they balked at first but a customer service rep stayed on top of the order and it went throught the system in less then a week. With all the talk of undergrading and inconsistency I was almost scared to get my grades back as this order was for 180 cards and I also have one in the system for 350 cards as well. With all the documentation of late on the site of how submitters feel their cards are getting undergraded I was waiting with anxious anticipation to seem if I would face the same doom.
I found the grades to be remarkably consistent!! I did receive around 40 or so PSA 7's (mixed in a smattering of 6's) but atleast 17 of the PSA 7's were previous PSA 7's that I thought were PSA 8's but after cracking and re-submitting came back 7's once again. True, I was not really pleased about getting 7's again, but it does show a consistency in the grading, which at this point , with all the criticism going on makes me feel re-assured. Atleast a dozen or more of the other PSA 7's received I sent in with a PSA 7 in mind for the grade of those cards, and all of the other cards I was looking for PSA 8's and they got the grades. There are about 5-7 cards that I am waiting to reveiw because I felt they were PSA 8's and they got 7's, but with all the hubbub on this board for undergrading, , I can mentally only question about 5 grades on a submission of 181 cards, without receiving them in the mail yet. I think for the submitteres out there getting scared to send in cards because they think PSA is trying to manipulate the market I now personally think that is nonsense, I think they nailed this order of mine!

sjeanblanc

Nuyauwka,

My order of 151 were all accurately graded as well and we'll see about the order of 100 more that went out FedEx today, in a week.

Nice to hear something positive, these last few days have be a real funeral around here.

Congrats on your submission,

Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
Ebay UserId : sjeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94)

koby

I just got my last submission of 40 cards back from PSA for the February Registry Special and must say that PSA did a very good job. All the cards were modern cards, and I thought I looked at them very carefully before sending, so I expected almost all 9s. When I saw the results on the online status, there was one 5 and two 6s. Automatically I was going to come onto the CU boards and complain about how the "Grader of Death" did me wrong.

Well upon receipt, I looked at these cards and stickers. Sure enough, there were paper wrinkles that I did not catch with the naked eye or even with a loupe. When I flip throught the rest of the cards, I could definitely tell why PSA gave 8s for some and 9s for others. Overall, I am very very pleased with this submission and look forward to the next modern special.

WinPitcher

I had 11 vintage cards graded by psa at the fort wash show. 9 were graded what i thought they would be, 1 got a 2 grade up and 1 a 2 grade down sounds pretty consistent to me. Plus the service rep carol helped me immensely like ske promised she would do in a PM. I think we all should reavaluate what it is exactly we are looking for in a graded card. remm no 2 cards wear alike and no 2 cards are produced alike. plus no 2 graders will grade alike........