This is the problem with grading...

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by RobertGT

Why is a SGC employee buying/selling/cracking graded cards and resubmitting with PSA?

Isn't this a conflict of interest?

Also, I agree there is no way in hell that card is a 10. No way that card comes back a 10 if submitted by you or I.

Something is rotten in Denmark.

Actually it would be a conflict of interest if he submitted them to SGC.

[RobertGT]

Originally Posted by t206hound

Actually it would be a conflict of interest if he submitted them to SGC.

OK, everything is just dandy here. Please continue.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by RobertGT

- OK so it's not a conflict for someone selling the service of "card carding" to turn around and buy/sell/crack/resubmit graded cards. I hear a lot of these types of arguments coming out of Wall Street these days.

And to summarize the current state of affairs:

- I submit a card to PSA with minor corner wear and numerous print defects, I get a PSA 7.

- SGC employee submits a card to PSA with minor corner wear and numerous print defects, he gets a PSA 10.

- Card bumps not 1 but 2 full grades and appears to be the weakest PSA 10 in graded card history, but it's only a "mistake."

- $3,000 profit from said bump of graded card, which was previously a $47 card until it came it came into the possession of an employee of grading card company SGC, and then turned over to competing grading card company PSA.

OK, everything is just dandy here. Please continue.

So your conspiracy theory is that PSA is motivated to give an improper grade to an SGC employee? Why?