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This card does not get a PD qualifier??

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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    good point kirk!

    following the PD & yankee theme here, 1980 Goose Gossage cards ALWAYS has stains on the bottom portion, but very few PD's.

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    julen
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I would have not even sent that Gossage in thinking it had a definite chance at a qualifier.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭✭
    Come on now, the Yankees always get the benefit of the doubt image
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    PSA doesn't seem to care about ink smudges on late 70s-early 80s Topps. Almost all of the 78 Trammell/Molitor RCs have the smudge, and plenty of them end up in PSA 9 slabs. Same with 78 Brett and Yaz. Yet, you send in a 1988 card with a smudge and they kill you for it. Seems arbitrary.

    Lee
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    lee,

    you're wrong bro, didn't you say your eyes had been playin' tricks on you on your last submission?

    or perhaps.... well nevermind.

    julen

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  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    Well, Joe says that part of grading expertise is understanding the common nuances of each issue. I guess if something is incredibly common with a particular issue (e.g. the smudges on 78 Molitor rookies), they don’t subtract as much from the grade as they would if smudges showed up on a 1989 Topps card.
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    I know what the policy is but I really think it's bogus. The 79 Ozzie Smith is off center 98% of the time, but that doesn't mean you'll ever see an 80/20 Smith in a PSA 9 slab. A flaw is a flaw, whether it be common for that type of card or not. That's why high grades of cards that are regularly flawed in a particular way should bring more money.
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