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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

Unclear how tainted SGC's review would be. Yes, they would love to show the hobby how poor a job PSA does. But, if they were rational about it they would realize that anything they do will be intensely scrutinzed. If it were shown through adjudication to a true neutral expert third party (e.g., Kevin) that SGC was on a witch hunt, then SGC just shot itself in the foot and arguably will lose business from this whole episode. Or, to put it another way, the very fine line that SGC will have to walk, given the neutral third party adjudication hanging over its head, might very well insure that if anything they err on the side of saying that what PSA did was right, not wrong.

However, I agree that the appearance of bias, even if there is none, will as a practical matter be impossible to eliminate. And that therefore in a perfect world the best solution would be either to (1) take the cards to a qualified person who has no economic interest in the outcome or (2) submit them to SGC as raw cards.