Does PSA track the "not holdered" counts for submitters?

detroitfan2

Do you think PSA tracks the number of times each individual member receives a "not holdered" status for a card, and then refers to this prior to grading?

Where I'm going with this is that if submitter X has a higher than normal percentage of "not holdered - evidence of trim", for example, then it would be logical to conclude that perhaps Mr. X is trying to slip something by more than the average submitter, thus perhaps his cards require closer scrutiny.

I know the answer should be "absolutely not", and I know it's been said that the grader has no knowledge of the submitter, so I guess I'm just babbling.

SDavid

I don't know, but there are dealers who regularly get a lot of cards rejected for trimming/recoloring/etc. If those dealers felt like their submissions were being overly-scrutinized, then I would think they'd stop submitting cards altogether...or at least stop sending in altered cards. No dealer would regularly submit altered cards to a grading company unless he was getting a decent percentage through. But, from the grading companies' standpoint, their money is green too.

sandmanfromlv

I would think probably not, unless someone sent in a ton of vintage stuff where 90+ percent was trimmed/altered and they might "flag" the account and send all of their cards to the grader of death specifically for future submissions...

If I were PSA, if I noticed someone consistently trying to send in altered cards, I would have 1 or 2 designated graders that the submission would be earmarked for....only bad thing with that is that when us average joe's send our cards in and that grader gets them by chance, they would be prejudiced prior to grading our cards thinking that Submitter X (the trimmer) was sending in more stuff, so our marginal factory cut cards that are close might get the old EVID TRIM whereas a normal grader would probably slide them through...

ranting myself here as well...

shagrotn77

In a perfect world yes. In reality, no way.

lawnmowerman

I would think that if submitter X consistantly has the "unfortunate luck" of submitting problem cards then yes, I would say more attention would be payed to their sub. I know when I worked retail, I loved busting scumbag shop-lifters Same principle

Matt

sandmanfromlv

I didn't realize there were that many people stealing lawn mower blades

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I didn't realize there were that many people stealing lawn mower blades




>>

You have no idea

matt

schr1st

I asked this at the National last year, and the answer was no. Personally, I'd like to see them do this, since it seems like 90% of all of the rejected cards come from the same sellers (Burge, Moser, etc.).

sandmanfromlv

I just keep having the image of George Costanza in his little rascal being chased down the sidewalk with LMM chasing down crooks on his $10,000 lawn maintenance machine ('cause it surely isn't a lawnmower now is it?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I just keep having the image of George Costanza in his little rascal being chased down the sidewalk with LMM chasing down crooks on his $10,000 lawn maintenance machine ('cause it surely isn't a lawnmower now is it? >>



Its a lawn mowing machine!!! I dont leave home without it!
Matt