Great tunraround but disappointed with grades.

ezyshooter

Not going to lay into the grader. I don't see it. These were my best pulls out of 4 vending boxes !! Yes, over 2,000 cards and i send in 50 of the best pulls. Not 1 PSA 10 ????????????????????????????????????? Very disappointed. 5's well i must have missed one of those faint factory wrinkles. I'm not new at grading so this really makes me wonder how the big guys keep getting 10's. No names because we all know who.
What a waste of money and time.
PSA Order Status for Submission # 618344


LINE # CERT # CARD CARD CO. CARD # CARD NAME VARIETY GRADE
1 04686479 1978 TOPPS 243 JIM BEDARD N/A 8
2 04686480 1978 TOPPS 242 RIC SEILING N/A 8
3 04686481 1978 TOPPS 240 BORJE SALMING N/A 8
4 04686482 1978 TOPPS 240 BORJE SALMING N/A 8
5 04686483 1978 TOPPS 187 MIKE McEWEN N/A 9
6 04686484 1978 TOPPS 182 BILLY HARRIS N/A 8
7 04686485 1978 TOPPS 173 RICK BOWNESS N/A 8
8 04686486 1978 TOPPS 171 MIKE KASZYCKI N/A 9
9 04686487 1978 TOPPS 165 REGGIE LEACH N/A 8
10 04686488 1978 TOPPS 153 BOB NYSTROM N/A 9
11 04686489 1978 TOPPS 150 DON EDWARDS N/A 9
12 04686490 1978 TOPPS 150 DON EDWARDS N/A 8
13 04686491 1978 TOPPS 149 DEAN TALAFOUS N/A 8
14 04686492 1978 TOPPS 148 GREG JOLY N/A 9
15 04686493 1978 TOPPS 143 BERNIE FEDERKO N/A 9
16 04686494 1978 TOPPS 139 RON SEDLBAUER N/A 9
17 04686495 1978 TOPPS 132 DALE McCOURT N/A 8
18 04686496 1978 TOPPS 132 DALE McCOURT N/A 9
19 04686497 1978 TOPPS 124 WAYNE CASHMAN N/A 8
20 04686498 1978 TOPPS 119 TOM EDUR N/A 8
21 04686499 1978 TOPPS 115 MIKE BOSSY N/A 9
22 04686500 1978 TOPPS 115 MIKE BOSSY N/A 9
23 04686501 1978 TOPPS 105 GLENN RESCH N/A 9
24 04686502 1978 TOPPS 104 DENNIS O'BRIEN N/A 9
25 04686503 1978 TOPPS 104 DENNIS O'BRIEN N/A 9
26 04686504 1978 TOPPS 245 DENIS POTVIN N/A 9
27 04686505 1978 TOPPS 140 GERRY CHEEVERS N/A 9
28 04686506 1978 TOPPS 100 PHIL ESPOSITO N/A 9
29 04686507 1978 TOPPS 95 GILLES GILBERT N/A 8
30 04686508 1978 TOPPS 85 CAROL VADNAIS N/A 8
31 04686509 1978 TOPPS 78 LANNY McDONALD N/A 9
32 04686510 1978 TOPPS 71 BOB KELLY N/A 5
33 04686511 1978 TOPPS 67 POWER PLAY LEADERS BOSSY/ESPOSITO/SHUTT 8
34 04686512 1978 TOPPS 59 MIKE MILBURY N/A 8
35 04686513 1978 TOPPS 58 DON LUCE N/A 9
36 04686514 1978 TOPPS 53 INGE HAMMARSTROM N/A 9
37 04686515 1978 TOPPS 49 BERT MARSHALL N/A 9
38 04686516 1978 TOPPS 46 BOB STEWART N/A 9
39 04686517 1978 TOPPS 41 DAVE FARRISH N/A 9
40 04686518 1978 TOPPS 33 BLAIR CHAPMAN N/A 9
41 04686519 1978 TOPPS 30 DARRYL SITTLER N/A 8
42 04686520 1978 TOPPS 29 GARRY HOWATT N/A 9
43 04686521 1978 TOPPS 29 GARRY HOWATT N/A 5
44 04686522 1978 TOPPS 27 LEE FOGOLIN N/A 9
45 04686523 1978 TOPPS 27 LEE FOGOLIN N/A 5
46 04686524 1978 TOPPS 19 DENNIS OWCHAR N/A 9
47 04686525 1978 TOPPS 14 GENE CARR N/A 9
48 04686526 1978 TOPPS 11 DON MURDOCH N/A 8
49 04686527 1978 TOPPS 10 BRYAN TROTTIER N/A 9
50 04686528 1978 TOPPS 9 CRAIG RAMSAY N/A 8

Date Received: 06/11/2007
Date of Grades Posted: 06/14/2007
Date Shipped: No Date Specified

julen23

your grades are really nice, conversly speaking!

if the grade don't fit
you must resubmit

julen
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nam812

Was that the $5 per card June special or the 5 day/$13 per card special?

CDsNuts

You rarely will pull 10's out of vintage vending. There's almost always a slightly touched corner that's consistent throughout the box. Sometimes you need a loupe to see it but it's there. Those thin blue boxes just didn't provide enough protection so if the boxes got moved around at all over the years, they will not be 10s.

packCollector

wow , 3 day turnaround , amazing , so much for the theory that everyone is going the distance.


I have to concur aboutthe vending , i submitted from a bunch of 76-80 vending boxes and out of 10 boxes i think I pulled 8 10's. the structure of the vending box and how the cars are packed lead to 9 material as long as the box was not dropped. when you submit from racks or from sets that were put in pages since inception , the percentage is infinitely higher.

itzagoner

i had similar results awhile back grading '78 Topps Hockey from wax including the dreaded ripple 5's.....i won't do that again, but they are great looking cards and look fine in Card Savers

ezyshooter

This was the June 5.00 dollar special. I sent in 3 subs and this was the first one to pop. OUCH !!
All cards were checked with a 10 X loop. I obviously didn't check for those ripples to well.
This is just another one of those sets i'm collecting just for the fun of it. Also collecting the 1981 Topps hockey set just for the fun of it. I have always liked the 1978 and especially the 1981 Topps sets. Cards from both these years are alot harder then what people think to get in 9's let alone 10's. I just could not believe that i didn't get 1 PSA 10 out of 50 !!
I've done better with my 1970 and 1971 Topps submissions then these.
Cheers, Steve

nam812

Wow, 3 days on the June special is amazing, but the guys still waiting on the March and April specials will not find anything even remotely fair about this.

zef204

There is no rhyme or reason to how they choose what to grade.

I am sitting on a 213 card order that logged 4/30 which arrived on 4/16.

If they had graded this they may have gotten more of the 1200 cards I have waiting to be graded.

zef204

<< <i>You rarely will pull 10's out of vintage vending. There's almost always a slightly touched corner that's consistent throughout the box. Sometimes you need a loupe to see it but it's there. Those thin blue boxes just didn't provide enough protection so if the boxes got moved around at all over the years, they will not be 10s. >>





Wax or rack will surely up the chances at 10's.

cardbender

Hi Ezy,
Sorry you got some tough grades here. It's just plain frustrating
when you're spent the time and energy screening cards only to get back a lot of 8's.

I know you know cards and have a great eye for grading.
Sounds like the grader of death is alive and well. ..........

Regards,
Rich