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Posted By: rob

One can have a very eye appealing VG-EX card with a light wrinkle on the back, clearly such a card should (and usually does) get a higher price on ebay than the usual rounded corner off centered graded VG-EX. I got a NrMt-Mt grade on a card which had a huge bubble of paper pulp in the middle of the card, which would had been a Mt condition card otherwise. Getting dropped 1 grade on a bigger flaw a light wrinkle, which can be 2-3 grade drop doesn't seem right. I don't have a solution, as changes in grading standards would probably bring more grading inconsistencies than what can be noticed now.

My experience with SGC has been rather bad, about a third of my submissions were a grade too low, and about a third of these undergrades were 2 grades too low. In those cases, I cracked the cards out of the holder, got more for them raw than the horrible SGC undergrades. SGC does not know their British issues, and that is reflected in their population reports.