The Grinch who stole Christmas

Tunispaul

As someone who reads the boards every day, I realize that there are not very many modern registry collectors who post but here it goes anyway: I just received my grades from a small November special send-in. I sent in 5 cards-received 4 nines and an eight. I can't believe I was this far off on my grading. I am very particular, so nines surprise me and an eight leaves me wondering, Did I get the Grader of Death? or Did I get the Grinch? In my registry set, one out of three cards on average pull down a ten so I was really hoping for two or three 10's and the rest 9's. I have never popped cards out of the holder and I doubt I will do this to the 8 but on a modern card with thick stock it just seems hard to get an eight. I do have another 5 card order being processed so I hope for better results. Thanks for allowing me to vent.

boggs301012

There is a learning curve involved. I think most everyone will agree. And a few tools you might need.

1. Loupe
2. Scanner
3. clear platic piece I bought you lay it on the card and it will give you the centering all the way around the card or some scan and count pixels
4. Patience


A trick I learned I pre grade my card wait a week or so and regrade them. You would be suprised to see them go up or Down a point. Or catch a major flaw you didnt see last time. What I miss most is raised corners.


JAmes

WarHoundR69

I collect Old Gum Inc. WW2 era War cards and I was disapointed with my last submittal. My freebie 6 came in at 3 - 5's & 3 - 6's. No complaints there. Then I sent in 10 more; 8 HOW cards & 2 WIA cards. I thought all the HOW cards would come back at 5 or 6 and the WIA cards at 4. On the HOW cards I got 2 - 6's, 2 - 5's , 2 - 4's and 2 - 3's. On the WIA cards a 2 and a 3. I'm really going to have to look carefully at the HOW 3's and 4's to see what defects I missed. So I can understand your frustration. I honestly thought all my raw HOW cards (Have about 200 more) were strong EX+. Wish you better luck on your next submittal. I'll be sending more in after I figure out what was wrong with the cards that got the lower grades

mikeschmidt

Tunispaul:

It sounds like you have been purchasing grading cards for a while to fill your Registry set with 33% 10s. If this is your first submission - welcome to the game. Check the population report for the cards you are collecting. If you review it - you might see many, many 9s and 8s graded for every 10 that you have in your set. Although PSA sometimes can be a bit inconsistent - most people making their first submission overestimate what grades they will receive...

~ms

Tunispaul

MS and Warhound and Boggs, Thanks for the reply. This was my first submission and yes probably my expectations were high. On my free submissions I scored very well so I thought I knew what I was doing. I am not very high on my registry list and there is not a lot of people who are collecting the set. I will take all suggestions to heart and try again for the December mail in. Meanwhile, I still have my fingers crossed for my 2nd submission. Thanks to all.

jimtb

Hey Boggs,
What is this plastic piece for centering that you mentioned?
Jim

marz

<< <i>Tunispaul:

It sounds like you have been purchasing grading cards for a while to fill your Registry set with 33% 10s. If this is your first submission - welcome to the game. Check the population report for the cards you are collecting. If you review it - you might see many, many 9s and 8s graded for every 10 that you have in your set. Although PSA sometimes can be a bit inconsistent - most people making their first submission overestimate what grades they will receive...

Hey Marc,come on! let's see an updated upload of the little guy. He's got to be twice this size by now.



~ms >>

mikeschmidt

Brian - icon uploads are too infrequent. Send me an e-mail, and I'll send you some actual pictures, if you're really that interested....

dude

Didn't Grinch play infield for the Baltimore Orioles in the early '70s?