[jchcollins]

If you are a collector, go with the grader you prefer (or) find values as I do in raw cards. "Professional" graders aren't the only ones who can be taught how to grade properly. Grading has been around for years before PSA.

If you are selling realize that PSA is the market leader, and dubious thoughts on how they arrived at that position aside - that is not likely to change soon, overnight, or perhaps ever. PSA established this position early with the help of their registry and the notoriety of certain things they graded. Believe whatever you like, but popular sentiment would point to the fact that too many big wheel collectors and investors are in bed with PSA and PSA graded cards now to seriously threaten their position as market leader. If you ask me, they should be relegated to the minor leagues of graders given a largesse of customer service and quality issues over the years, but especially recently. But that changes nothing. Do I submit to PSA? No. Do I have PSA slabs in my collection? Yes, many. It is what it is.