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Old 06-12-2015, 05:37 PM
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Default Why I Hate the Whole Card Grading Thing...

(It's not my card and I obscured the serial number for the heck of it.)

I can't stand people who constantly talk about graded cards and all the ridiculous chatter about, "Hey, do you think if I break this card out and get it re-graded it'll get a .5 bump??" It bugs me to no end. Hate it!!!! You may have a different opinion, so whatever. But that's where I stand.

So I ran across this card today and am at a complete loss as to why in heck anyone in their right mind would say this is an 8????!!!! Isn't an 8 supposed to be a beautiful, nearly perfect card?? Since the number grade is on a separate line, this is a relatively recent grading, so you can't say that perhaps PSA overgraded it back in the day when they didn't really have their act together.

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The photograph itself is at such a ridiculously tilted angle that it almost pinwheels right off the face of the card. That jumps out at you right away and it's impossible to ignore this stupidly obvious flaw. Add in the fact that each corner shows bumped/rounded wear and the edges look, for lack of a better term, pockmarked. How is this an 8?????????????????????????????????????

Yowza!!!!
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