[brian1961]

Casey, Based upon your excellent scan, each corner, except the top right, seemed a bit soft or blunted. There are various degrees of corner wear, to be sure, but with 3 of the 4 corners not being fairly sharp, I would imagine that's what the grader saw.

I'm sorry about your exasperation with SGC; I know I would feel the same. Customer service, accurate grading, and a nice holder have been SGC's hallmarks. If they simply scanned each card in, once holdered, then they could handle questions much more easily, and at lesser expense to the owner. Having to resubmit is costly and not user friendly. Sure, we often don't get the grades we want, and their customer service can't handle 100 similar calls per day. BUT.....

Maybe they should give a 10 words or less summation of a given submission on the return paperwork. With as much as they charge, and the to and from postage we must also pay, that's not a lot to ask. But when grading companies haven't been providing this kind of grading service since day one, it would take a monumental force to get them to start. If the grader sees said problems when he grades the card, why not have the submission form on the computer screen, then record the analysis (in 10 words or less), from card to card, and print it off.

If this were to be done, it might be beneficial to company and customer. Beckett used to do that, and many collectors liked this service. As always, we will never always agree with the grading umpires. But they're paid to call them as they see it.

Sorry if this comes off as burbling. --Brian Powell

PS---Love your Derek Sanderson avatar, or whatever you call your logo.