Thoughts Min Size Rejected Cards --- Poll

gemint

What are your thoughts on PSA rejecting cards due to not meeting minimum size requirements? This question excludes any card that has been trimmed or tampered with. This is just considering those cards that come from the factory smaller but not miscut. To me, I don't see why these are rejected. They are typically from vending and came from the factory that way. Sometimes complete vending runs can get rejected due to sizing. Sometimes holdering or rejection depends on the particular grader.

PSA does grade oversized cards and even puts them in larger holders with a mylar sleeve. Personally I'd rather have a smaller card in a standard size holder than the larger ones with the mylar sleeve. Since these cards are untampered with and are factory cut, I feel they should be holdered. How do SGC and GAI treat small vending cards? Are they rejecting them as well?

I'll try to set up a poll to solicit your opinion. I've never done one so I hope it works.

Bosox1976

You should add a "Yes, but with qualifier" option.

gemint

Done!

jackstraw

I have sent a few SGC 96's to PSA(cracked out) and got min siz back. I also have sent min size cards to SGC and they were graded. So I guess unless its more than a 1/16 they probably reject them.

gemint

Well the results so far are interesting. Nobody has voted not to holder these cards. I can understand the desire to have a qualifier.

storm888

"I can understand the desire to have a qualifier. "

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I voted for the Q (US), but I do not have much
confidence in any TPG's ability to determine for
sure that the card became US before/after it
left the factory.

I have lots of cards that came straight out of the
pack (US). I did not trim them, and neither did
anybody else.

ripkenintheminors

I sent a handful of cards from a minor league team set that included a Ripken on the last special. My thought process was that it would be good to have the entire set graded for registry purposes. Of the 6 cards I've had graded so far from the set, one came back that it didn't mean the minimum size requirement. It's not an impossible set to find, but it's not going to be easy to get that one card without having to buy another set. It would've been nice to have it put in a slab. For what it's worth they printed a label just like the one that would go in the slab and stuck it on the card saver rather than go ahead and put it in a slab.