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OAKESY25OAKESY25 Posts: 4,726 ✭✭✭
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I have often wondered this... do you think the total quality of a submission impacts overall grades??? i.e. if I send in a bunch of 5's and a 8 quality card... can you see it coming back a 7-8 just because the grader is put in a lower state of mind??? same goes... if I send in a bunch of 9's my 6-7 gets bumped to 7-8????


bob

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  • ArnyVeeArnyVee Posts: 4,245 ✭✭
    Bob, funny that you ask that.

    I was thinking of starting a thread about the pschology of a sub. If you know that there's a tough PSA 8 or better vintage card do you send a marginal 7/8 card (and list it ahead of the one you really want the 8 on) and hope to pull a solid 7 or weak 8 and then they have to grade that other one an 8 at least?

    I was wondering that myself.
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    * C. PASCUAL BASIC #3
    * T. PEREZ BASIC #4 100%
    * L. TIANT BASIC #1
    * DRYSDALE BASIC #4 100%
    * MAGIC MASTER #4/BASIC #3
    * PALMEIRO MASTER/BASIC #1
    * '65 DISNEYLAND #2
    * '78 ELVIS PRESLEY #6
    * '78 THREE'S COMPANY #1

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  • OAKESY25OAKESY25 Posts: 4,726 ✭✭✭
    anyone else?
  • TomTimTomTim Posts: 152 ✭✭✭
    I've wondered about the same thing. I teach human resource management and we talk about "contrast effects." If someone is being interviewed for a job and they deserve a 5 (on a 1-10 scale), their scores tend to be higher if the person interviewing right before them is a 2. On the other hand, the 5 will look more like a 2 if the person right before them was an 8. Same thing happens in performance appraisal. This tends to work as long as the judgments are subjective. Of course, there's no subjectivity in card grading, so it probably wouldn't work...image

  • vintagetoppsguyvintagetoppsguy Posts: 871
    I agree as well. It's just human nature. So it could work for you or against you on a submission. I used to list my submission form in order by year, but now I think I will list them by condition from now on.

  • OAKESY25OAKESY25 Posts: 4,726 ✭✭✭
    I never listed them in any particular order.. keep in mind I only do about 8-10 at a time...
    I never knew if they looked at them in any type of order or not
  • sayheykid54sayheykid54 Posts: 779 ✭✭
    I think that it could definitely play into it. I once sent in 50 razor sharp 1959 Topps football cards that were pulled directly from a vending case. The sub came back a mix of 7-9's. Keep in mind all of the cards were perfectly centered so that wasn't an issue. I resubmitted the 7-8's and almost ever single one came back a nine.

    I think in my situation the grader was almost desensitized to the quality and the sharpness of the cards they were grading. I definitely feel that if I had INSERTED a few lower quality cards with less than perfect centering I would have done better on the original lot.
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