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warshawlawhappen. I have a few SGC cards that they switched during the encapsulation process (I know they are switched because I have both cards from the switch; I am going to have them fix them at the National). The Lemon is likely a switched label during encapsulation. I don't get all torqued over that sort of stuff and that's not why I started this post. I started it because the nature of the mistakes coming out of PSA recently are not quality control processing mistakes, they are core identification and authentication mistakes that undermine the reason why people send in cards in the first place, which is authentication.
Rather than justifying PSA's incompetence by stating that others err too (didn't your mothers ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right?) minimizing it with a "so, PSA made a mistake", or saying they are too busy to do a good job, I think we as collectors should be concerned with why there is a spike in the number of these kinds of core mistakes at PSA. Show me the OJ and Mayo cards with missing ads, the T206 Wagners and the obviously misidentified cards from SGC and GAI. I don't seem to recall any. Volume is no excuse; if PSA cannot keep up the quality of work as it grows, don't friggin' grow, but don't build an organization at the cost of doing a half-assed job for your customers.