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Posted By: JimB

Let's imagine the opposite scenario. PSA announces the half grades but says that if any of the owners of the 11 million cards you paid to have accurately graded want to have those cards evaluated for a bump because you feel they are high end for the grade, you must take the risk that we will determine that we overgraded your card last time and you must accept a bump down with compensation to be determined by PSA. That scenario would go over like a ton of bricks here.

Not only would that be unfair to customers, how much resentment do you think that would generate? The only way the first eleven million cards could be evaluated for the half grade bump is if I want to risk a bump down. That is crazy.

PSA and all grading companies pride themselves on the accuracy of their grading. Sure, maybe they would agree that 1 out of 1,000 might be overgrade, but I am sure from PSA's perspective, it is not the epidemic some on here are suggesting. If they were to regularly start downgrading cards and compensating for it, they would quickly go out of business.

For that one card in a thousand, they are always free to call the owner and discuss it with them. But that does not mean they should write in their new policy that they are looking for downgrades. Be realistic!

But I think if that is the way they rolled out half grades, we would have equal or greater criticism from the masses here. A certain group of people here are going to be upset no matter what PSA does.
JimB