How did this get into a PSA 7 holder?
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Look at the blue stuff on the lower left-hand corner of the card. Since it ends at the edge of the card, it almost certainly is something on the card, not in the scan.
1962 Topps PSA 7 Johnny Unitas
1962 Topps PSA 7 Johnny Unitas
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But I agree, ugly card.
What I find puzzling is that so many of us continue to gripe about such grades when we see time and again that TPG is basically a crap shoot. Companies have their standards and try to stick by them, but the entire process is so inherently subjective that inconsistencies are inevitable. I've gotten generous grades from PSA, and others that I thought were undergraded. The real kicker is hearing endless stories of people sending in the same card multiple times until it finally receives that sought-after grade. When I send in a nice card and it gets a 9, I get a sense of satisfaction and pride. If I have to send that same card in multiple times before it gets that 9, then it's a sham. Such re-submissions are obviously good if the intent is to maximize one's profit on a sale, but what about the purchaser of that card? Is he really getting a card that is genuinely mint? If you are a strict collector like me, such multiple submissions are comical.
For me, the Set Registry and it's addictive competition is the only reason to keep graded cards holdered. If I buy a graded card that is not in one of my registered sets, out it comes so I can view it the way it was meant to be viewed.
All this negativity sucks, by the way, we all know that some cards are over graded.
Maybe just once can we see a thread where an undergraded card is shown?
Steve
If that was the norm, I would have no problem with that. Instead, I seem to see alot of stuff that is overgraded. It's funny, I see most of this overgraded stuff coming from big submitters. Is this a coincedence? I often wonder. Just my opinions, of course.
Really? link me to 3 such threads.
Steve
<< <i>believe alot of properly graded cards are shown each day
Really? link me to 3 such threads.
Steve >>
Meaning.... People share pics of their cards in threads each day, and most of them are graded properly.
Please check the mail section, and threads from members who received the submissions back, for the examples you are requesting. Sure, some complain that their cards were not graded high enough, and that they got ripped from the graders, ect... But, as I stated, I would rather see a card a bit undergraded, than overgraded.
Somehow I knew that would be your reply though.
Good try.
Steve
<< <i>I'm not talking about people that share their cards.
Somehow I knew that would be your reply though.
Good try.
Steve >>
I was not trying anything. That is exactly what I was talking about, and explained it to you. Twist it if you wish.
<< <i>Jocularity!
HAHA, I thought of the very same thing once I reread my post.
+1 MASH reference
I was just hoping that maybe just once one of the usual subjects could
post a thread about a card that they feel is graded properly.
I get this feeling that they scour ebay auctions until they find a card that is overgraded
so they can create a thread asking how a card got a certain grade.
It is getting tiresome.
I know I can choose not too read or reply but between you, me and the ............
nevermind.
Steve
Me too and that is my point. All we get to see here is the dogs.
How about for a refreshing change someone, anyone, post an auction where a card is true to the grade?
Steve
I agree, some on here might just scour Ebay to find things to pick about with PSA, but all grading companies have the same issues if everyone will just be honest and take out their personal bias. Personally, I have a collection of BGS, PSA, and SGC stuff. I like all of them for certain reasons, and have areas of dislike as well.
With the volume of material graded, the "Big 3" all do a pretty good job for the most part.
Good point. My point was it is always the same people over and over.
Steve
I am actually working on the 1962 set and have been looking for a PSA 7 Unitas for quite a while. I was not scouring Ebay to find an example of an overgraded card. I have neither the time or inclination to do that, and I doubt anybody else does either.
The reason I posted this card was because of what it says about PSA's complete lack of quality control. Keep in mind that this is a card that is overgraded by several grades (not just one), that not one, but two, graders completely missed this, and that several other people missed it during the slabbing and shipping process as well.
It is not the type of mistake that inspires a lot of confidence in PSA's operational quality (not that I had much in the first place). If they miss something as obvious as this, what else is slipping through the cracks?
How did this get into a PSA 7 holder.
My simple answer is I don't know.
Email someone (Joe) and ask them.
Maybe they can give you an answer you can live with.
Constantly showing the board over graded examples of cards is getting tiresome.
Steve
me scratching my head. If I created 2 threads in all that time that would be alot.
It really is no big deal, you want to show us overgraded examples and you are entitled to.
Just don't think you are the only one that sees them. WE ALL DO.
Steve