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Originally Posted by gunboat82
Just following up on this with a response from SGC's support team, which doesn't do anything to restore my confidence:
If I'm understanding correctly,
1) SGC sent my cards back raw because I didn't request that they be encapsulated even if "altered."
2) SGC considers the cards "altered," for slabbing purposes, whenever they don't meet SGC's minimum-size guidelines.
3) SGC didn't know which sets my cards actually came from, but they can somehow state with confidence that the cards would be too small even if the SGC graders had known what they were looking at.
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This is pretty standard stuff when submitting to SGC. Any card that measures small will not be encapsulated unless you check the "encapsulate if altered" box. Note that PSA does the same. But at least SGC makes it easier to select that as an option. PSA doesn't even have this listed anywhere on their submission form. You just have to know to write it into the notes field and hope they see it.
Also worth noting is that they've both gotten way more strict with respect to which cards they're flagging as altered or min size these days (and PSA is worse than SGC for min size).
As far as correctly identifying said cards, I have no insight there. I'm not familiar with these sets. But that sure sounds frustrating.