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PSA rating

seaverfan123seaverfan123 Posts: 20
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In a recent forum discussion, I read how someone was wondering if their baseball card would get a high rating from PSA (like a 9 or 10). When someone responded, "depends on who is submitting the card!" it first made me laugh but quickly made me start wondering...

Do you think it's possible that a popular reseller has a better chance in submitting a card that will generate a gem mint 10 rating than a lesser-known individual? I would expect a more well-known reseller will have more cards to submit to PSA and thereby have an increased and better chance of submitting gem mint cards.

So far, I've enjoyed my ratings results from PSA. Yet, I have a few cards that seem perfect, gem mint cards. And, before I--the lesser known individual--submit them to PSA, I wonder if the rating could be impacted by who is submitting the card. I hope not!
J

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  • ZUPZUP Posts: 32
    They say that the graders have no way of knowing whose cards that they are grading. I firmly believe that there is favoritism, and that they do know whose cards are coming through.
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    I have yet to see any conclusive evidence showing that certain submitters get favouritism, and frankly I find it hard to believe.

    4 Sharp Corners certainly has a good share of 7's and 8's for sale in their various stores. Other large volume submitters may play the crack-and-resubmit game, or just crack out the lower grades and sell raw, so we never see their lower graded cards.
  • MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They say that the graders have no way of knowing whose cards that they are grading. I firmly believe that there is favoritism, and that they do know whose cards are coming through. >>



    I don't believe it and I don't buy it. PSA is liable for every grade they put out - the last thing they want is some payrolled grader to knowingly stray from PSA standards due to favoritism. That's just absolute nonsense to believe there is favoritism.

    That being said, if a major submission, 100s, maybe 1000s of cards, contains 10 after 10 after 10 after 10, it is feasible that a card grouped in there, that might not pull a 10 elsewhere, would end up in a 10 holder just out of momentum.

    Mark (amerbbcards)


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  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Large submitters may catch a break due to graders paying less attention to detail as they go through large runs of similar (or the same) cards.

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  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Not all graders are as strict with the guidelines, and a lot of submitters play the crack and resubmit game until they get the grade they think they should.

    I"m not buying the favortism, although I have heard of some who have successfully argued for a higher grade on a particular card.

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  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    DSL, 4SC, and others get lots of lower grades too. Those just don't make it onto eBay most of the time (DSL sells at shows, with tables full of $5 cards - and at some shows, will discount further for quantity pruchases).

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  • thenarcissus01thenarcissus01 Posts: 344


    << <i>They say that the graders have no way of knowing whose cards that they are grading. I firmly believe that there is favoritism, and that they do know whose cards are coming through. >>



    I think when the grader sees a submission of one or two thousand cards they don't have to know exactly who the submitter is!
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