Posted By:
Mark SteinbergHere's something that bothers me about PSA... They will downgrade a card for poor centering... often times severely. The "off-centering" is original to the card, and is just as manufactured. A card can be mint otherwise, but the "off-centering" will significantly knock down the PSA grade.
But PSA seems to accept rough cuts and miscuts (of the non-trimmed variety) without severe penalty to the grade. Why is that? I have also seen blurry, unfocused images on cards that grade higher than cards with sharper images and perfect registration.
I am not as much a card expert as most of you are (I migrated over from the memorabilia side), but aren't there some real contradictions/discrepancies with PSA's grading methods? I've chosen to continue living in the "dark ages" (with about 90% of my collection remaining ungraded) largely for this reason...