[Fred]

I can remember when the three best TPGs were PSA, SGC and GAI. GAI was an upstart and moving up the grading company ladder as a favorite. Then something happened and GAI started slabbing trimmed cards and assigning the cards a numerical grade, which we all know is a no-no for grading companies. GAI then folded because of mismanagement and nobody trusted them. At the beginning, they were great!

Now I look at it and GAI have determined that GAI was just ahead of their time because now it just seems to be the "norm". More and more trimmed/altered cards are getting numerical grades by PSA and SGC. Now look at the top two TPGs, they're really sucking and slabbing all kinds of altered and trimmed cards and assigning numerical grades.

I hate to say this but SGC seems to be slabbing more trimmed/altered cards than PSA when you consider the number of cards graded. PSA has a higher volume of graded cards so you'd think they'd have more slabbed trimmed cards, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess SGC has more slabbed/altered cards than PSA by graded volume.

When I see some of the crud they're grading, it just makes me cringe. The sad part is the collecting public just turns a blind eye and seems to accept it.

Anybody else have thoughts on this?