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Josh K.This topic was not really intended to address pinholes, but cards with ordinary wear, paperloss, etc that are getting graded far higher than what their technical grade should be. I cant tell you how many times Ive seen t3s with severely rounded corners and creasing or staining that wouldnt merit more than a 2 if on a regular size card, and its sitting in a 4 holder. For example, this card recently sold on ebay - should it really be a 4 - its got paperloss, a very rounded bottom right corner and terrible edges:
I didnt intend to share this view in this thread, but, to answer Barry's question, I think SGC will be much stricter and lose submissions to psa as a result. I also wouldnt be surprised to find out that this is a marketing strategy by psa - in other words that psa is willing to compromise its integrity for the sake of sales.