E95 Plank--PWCC auction

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

The proper grade would have been PSA 2.5 MK

There are no half grades with qualifiers. Either one or the other. Here is the marked card that PSA just gave a straight 5.

1968 Topps - [Base] #66.1 - Casey Cox (Yellow Team Name) [SGC*20]
Courtesy of COMC.com

As you can see, it has red scribble marker on the jersey and "blood tears" in both eyes. I was floored when it popped as an unqualified card. I think their website is wrong, and they do downgrade cards to remove MK qualifiers.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by swarmee

There are no half grades with qualifiers.

Tell that to PSA...

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by swarmee

...they do downgrade cards to remove MK qualifiers.

Kind of like there's no half grades with qualifiers, huh?

Lots of misinformation in this thread. I blame it all in PWCC

[darwinbulldog]

The second they decided you could get a 1 with a qualifier but not a 10 with a qualifier they undercut their entire explanation for the qualifiers' purpose.

[swarmee]

A 1.5 Fair is not actually a half grade in their opinion.

https://www.psacard.com/resources/gr...andards/#cards

Click on the box about half-point grades. It states "For example, there will not be cards graded PSA NM-MT Plus 8.5 OC or PSA EX-MT Plus 6.5 PD since the half-point is reserved for high-end cards within each grade."
So a 2.5(MK) is not possible, and actually won't fit on their Pop Report charts the way they're laid out, since there are separate fields for + (half-grades) and Q (qualifiers). However, since 1.5 FAIR gets its own column, it is not actually a half-grade and therefore, I guess, PSA allows qualifiers on them.

[cammb]

Why are we justifying the grade of PSA 3? I don't care how nice it looks. It has been tampered with and deserves an Authentic and nothing else

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by cammb

Why are we justifying the grade of PSA 3? I don't care how nice it looks. It has been tampered with and deserves an Authentic and nothing else

Surely any card with a MK qualifier has been tampered with, no? What's the difference between writing a letter on it and stamping a letter on it?