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PSA's grading standard

Mickey MaysMickey Mays Posts: 289 ✭✭✭
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Do you think PSA's grading standard is easier now than say 5 years ago?

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  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    no

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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think they are much stricter now than they were 5 years ago.

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  • HighGradeLegendsHighGradeLegends Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭✭

    @divecchia said:
    I think they are much stricter now than they were 5 years ago.

    Donato

    +1

  • brad31brad31 Posts: 2,853 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think they are stricter on 70s and later, more lenient on 50s and earlier and about the same on 60s cards.

  • tonylagstonylags Posts: 572 ✭✭✭

    Absolutely not

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  • TheThrill22TheThrill22 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭

    They seem especially tougher on their grading of cards of star players

  • travis ttravis t Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭

    It's exactly the same. Just read their literature. The description for each level of grading hasn't changed for the years since the half grades were added. Perhaps, it's the application of such various techniques which have changed.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,083 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 11, 2017 4:24PM

    100% stricter now

  • 70ToppsFanatic70ToppsFanatic Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭✭

    Descriptions of the standards have not changed. Application of the standards by each individual grader is difficult at best to get consistency with since they are individuals and not a "borg" collective.

    As for whether or not there has been a "clamp down" in recent years resulting in stricter application, that's a subjective judgment that very few of us submit enough quantity to be able to make a definitive statement on.

    My days of 2000 card submissions are in the past. I can say that there was reasonable consistency within each of those submissions. But to send in 50 or 100 cards today and try to compare current application of the standards to how it was 10 years ago seems to me to be at best an exercise in conjecture.

    Anyone know a bulk submitter who could chime in on their observations over the last decade?



    Dave
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