A Tale of Two Slabbies

[JollyElm]

I'm just confused. The card on the right is mine, the Grote is not. They share almost the exact same centering, both with a slight tilt (the top of Jerry going a bit to the right and Pete headed to the left) and equal if not identical spacing at the bottom. (FWIW, the back of the Rose is slightly O/C, but nothing that should lead to a qualifier.)

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Both cards are recent grades, so they were both scrutinized under the 'newer' PSA standards, yet the Grote (which is ridiculously hard to find centered top to bottom) received no qualifier and the Rose got hammered. I'm happy, I guess, that Pete was slabbed O/C, because it allowed me to pick him up for virtually nothing, but the value of the Grote card was increased exponentially by the grade it received. Weird.

I guess there's no real purpose to this thread other than to just stress my bewilderment at the lack of consistency displayed here (yes, I know it's merely two cards).