New Set Registry opinions on these o/c qualifiers

zsz70

What is your opinion on this ?

The 1973 opc baseball set has 3
PSA 9 Roberto Clementes.

They are ALL PSA 9 o/c

This card is impossible to find centered.
There are NO 9's without qualifiers.

1973 opc baseball is one of the toughest opc
years to find nice centered cards.

Should there be a penalty on the set registry
for this type of card ?

Why should this card drop to a 7 when there
is no 9 that exists ?

A PSA 9 o/c Clemente is quite honestly
the highest possible grade to get from this card outside of a straight 8?
I'm 99.9 % sure that I will see my grave
before I will see an unqualified 9.

AlanAllen

We can't have a sliding scale. The grading system and how the registry treats it has to be rigid and consistent, or it loses all meaning. I recently started collecting a set where no card has ever been slabbed over VG/EX by any company, and probably never will. If that's the best there is, that's the best there is.

Joe

WinPitcher

good topic. i agree with joe and yet at the same time think that if a psa 9 oc is the best then until 1 unqualified speciman turns up the 9 oc should carry more wght. maybe in that case just a 1 grade drop. i though would prefer an 8 over it.

mudflap02

You can't make exeptions, because that just opens the door for more and more technical issues. Consistency is the standard that PSA is based on - whether people agree with their consistency or not, they do their best. That's why T206 cards are graded on the same scale as 2004 Topps - and also why finding a card in truly mint condition means that it really does merit a premium.

I understand your question with the 73 OPC. I know how bad it sucks to track down decent ones - I've slowed down my Ryan set a little, but I'm always looking for OPC stuff. It just makes finding decent ones (of which I have ONE I plan to grade, a 74 knock on wood it will come back slabbed) that much better.

Virtualizard

I know they're tough, but I disagree strongly about giving them more lenient standards for the set registry. The Set Registry needs to stay 100% consistent across the board.

That said, I would actually prefer a nice PSA 8 that presents really well to a PSA 9OC where the centering pops out at you. For example, here's my '73 OPC Stargell:





JEB.