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Matt RIf I think that a particular grading service is horrible, I will post about it if I choose to. This board isn't owned by any grading company so I think you will find a lot of people that agree with me. If you do not want to read my threads, drag your mouse away from my posts and click on something else instead.
As for PSA, many people have submitted a card pulled straight from a pack and PSA sends them back as being trimmed. Then you can submit a trimmed card and it gets slabbed. I've had a T-206 common come back as recolored. The card simply had an ink stain on the edge. I know for a fact that is what happened because the card had been in the family over 40 years. How many cards were deceptively recolored more than 40 years ago? People have sent the same card twice, the first time coming back as evidence of trimming. They send it in a second time and it gets slabbed. PSA/DNA rejected a Sue Bird autographed picture as being fake. I was talking to her while she signed it. I spent $100 the first time for their "Walk Through" service. My card didn't meet the minimum grade of 5. No explanation was provided. The second time I submitted it as a 4. I paid $60 for their 2 day service. The post office delivered it to them 3 days before they entered it into their system. Then it took the full 2 days to get it graded. Then they mailed it the next day. My 2 day service turned into nearly 6. All of this and still no explanation for why it didn't make the grade.
Then they boot me off of their message board despite the fact that I'm a paying member.
I've given PSA a chance. I am not impressed with their service. I do not feel that they are competent enough to provide the service that they are selling.
The only other grading service I've used is BGS. They were OK. At least you get half of an explanation by having the grade of surface, corners, etc.