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Posted By: davidcycleback

Whether it's James Spence or the top expert at SGC or PSA, any authenticator will tell that there is a percentage of items where they can't make a final opinion. One person who worked with Mike Gutierrez said what most impressed him most was that if Gutierrez didn't know he would say he didn't know.

The collector should worry more about the grader that encapsulates and labels 100 percent of the items they receive, rather than the ones that don't.

Also, collectors and dealers will and have sued grading companies if the label on the holder is incorrect. Considering it's often the submitters who insist on financial rembursment, sometimes in the thousands of dollars, they should be the first to figure out that a grader is going to set paramaters what what will be graded and returns unlabelled items they have questions about.

If a customer said he'd sue me for $5,000 if my LOA turned out to wrong, I wouldn't write the LOA even if I knew it would be accurate.