This thread back in March was my contribution to this discussion:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=203387
prompted by my getting this AUTH-graded beauty:
And Jay, I know we talked about this a bit at the National, and you said that you had talked to somebody at SGC (I think) who acknowledged that they need to come up with better grading criteria for OJs, because the market is rejecting their current standards -- the price a graded OJ goes for has only a very loose correlation with its technical grade, with photo quality being much more important. I hope they do get their act together, though it doesn't matter much to me, since the bulk of my OJs are raw.