SGC definitely is tightening things in a lot of areas with grading...not necessarily for the better.
This is one example that Josh points out, but they now also consider heavily creased cards ungradable, or only accepting of an "A" even though the card is untouched/cut otherwise.
And yes, you MUST note on your submission that you're willing to receive an "A" grade or they won't (I found that out the hard way last month).
Yet, you see SGC1's around with corners missing, chunks out of the side, holes, massive paper loss, etc. It makes no sense.
You'd thing SGC would want to strike while the iron is hot and PSA is languishing under a mountain of cards to grade to lure people in...instead they're pushing them away.
Bill
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