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RhysSteve, that is not a true statement.
A lot of people do choose to submit their cards to GAI without having them ever graded and failing another company. I see it hundreds of times at shows because it is convenient and they actually like being treated nice when submitting their cards. In truth, the only time I ever had a card fail GAI (a 1979 OPC Gretzky Rookie) and tried to cross it over to another company was with SGC and it got an 8.5 NMMT+.
My advice to the people that cant get their GAI cards to cross over... Go buy Joe Orlando or another PSA bigwhig dinner and slip some money under the table like the other big dealers do.