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Has anyone else seen this - or GRADERS PUT DOWN YOUR PENS!!

RayDBonzRayDBonz Posts: 36
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I have just seen my second PSA graded card with a small pen mark that is not qualified with the (MK) qualifier. In both cases the mark is quite noticeable, so it wasn't overlooked by the grader. In on case, it's on the white border of the card.

One of the cards is one I sent in myself and I know the mark was not there when the card was submitted. The second card is one I purchased and is graded PSA 9. I looked at the grading standards and a PSA 9 should NOT have a pen mark.

After watching a few episodes of CSI, here is what I think happened: the grader or graders looked at the cards, assigned the grade, the info was entered into the PSA computer system and the flip was printed. So far, so good. Now the doofus who puts the card and the flip into the plastic holder who has no experience or training happens to have a pen in his or her hand so he/she can mark off a checklist or something and inadvertantly makes a little mark on the card as it is being "slabbed". He marks his time card or orders his double tall skinny latte and grabs the next card and flip to deface, I mean insert into a holder.

Has this happened to anyone else? Or did I just happen to get my cards graded while they were taking orders for lunch? Or is it just another symptom of our younger generations lack of respect for other peoples' property? Or do they have a new system so they don't get confused - yup I graded that one, there's my check mark!

Bill

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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    No but chalk it up to a "mechanical" mistake. Thats what they call it. I submitted a Callahan that I know did NOT have a corner dink. Yet when it came back it did. It did not take from the grade (that I can tell), but I would have never submitted it because it was that obvious. Whe I questioned them about it I was told to send it under mechanical mistake and they would track its "movement" to see if they could find out what happened.....................
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  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    PSA does not make mistakes.
  • murcerfanmurcerfan Posts: 2,329 ✭✭
  • theBobstheBobs Posts: 1,136 ✭✭
    I once had poison ivy
    Where have you gone Dave Vargha
    CU turns its lonely eyes to you
    What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
    Vargha bucks have left and gone away?

    hey hey hey
    hey hey hey
  • VirtualizardVirtualizard Posts: 1,936 ✭✭
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    JEB.
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    I once had poison ivy

    Stop it with the ridiculous statements!
  • theBobstheBobs Posts: 1,136 ✭✭
    OK, I didn't.

    Where have you gone Dave Vargha
    CU turns its lonely eyes to you
    What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
    Vargha bucks have left and gone away?

    hey hey hey
    hey hey hey
  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    It happened to a PSA 9 1975 Topps #629 Joe Hoerner I purchased. If you look at my 1975 Topps registry (link is in the sig line), you can see the pen mark by his left arm (between the border and his arm above the "Pitcher"). Big blue pen mark. image

    Scott
    Registry Sets:
    T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
    1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
    1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
    1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
    1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
    1981 Topps FB PSA 10
    1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
    1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
    3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up

    My Sets
  • ScumbiScumbi Posts: 268 ✭
    God, you'd think they'd have the decency to break the cards out, liquid paper them and re-slab. Where has common grading card company courtesy gone?

    I'm still trying to figure out how I submitted a mint 1953 Bowman set and got back 400 PSA 7 1975 Greg Mintons.

    Best,

    S.
  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    I don't know about graders holding uncapped pens while they grade, but I know I once had a 56 Mantle with a tiny black dot on the white border, graded PSA 8. No way it was a 9 without the dot, so must be that one tiny dot does not necessarily bring the dreaded qualifier.
  • mudflap02mudflap02 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭
    Pic of F Scott's card

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  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    Thank's Jeff. I still don't know how that got a 9 with that less than unnoticeable pen mark. image Oh well, I'm not gonna complain too much. image

    Scott
    Registry Sets:
    T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
    1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
    1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
    1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
    1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
    1981 Topps FB PSA 10
    1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
    1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
    3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up

    My Sets
  • mudflap02mudflap02 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭
    You got the 9 because Joe has devil hair and a steely gaze.
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Joe has devil hair >>



    lol
    ·p_A·
  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    I remember. I got that card from bbcexchange. Must have been part of a huge submission and got lost in the shuffle somehow. image

    Scott
    Registry Sets:
    T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
    1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
    1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
    1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
    1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
    1981 Topps FB PSA 10
    1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
    1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
    3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up

    My Sets
  • VarghaVargha Posts: 2,392 ✭✭
    I've got two 1975 unqualified PSA 9's with bigger problems than that. What's worse is that I sent them in to PSA to be re-evaluated and they said that globs of crap are part of the printing process.
  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭


    << <i>I've got two 1975 unqualified PSA 9's with bigger problems than that. What's worse is that I sent them in to PSA to be re-evaluated and they said that globs of crap are part of the printing process. >>


    Really? Hmmm. So if I send in my PSA 9 PD cards with "snow" and explain that "globs of crap are part of the printing process," they'll take off the qualifer? I didn't think so.
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