OJs, ads cut from bottom

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

A few OJs (N172) were auctioned by the seller BBCEXCHANGE on ebay on Sunday evening. Many of the cards were rejected by PSA for being altered. These cards had the ads trimmed off of the bottom of the cards. The seller probably didn't know the reason PSA didn't encapsulate and grade the cards because it wasn't disclosed in the item description. Now the flip side of this is that there was a PSA graded OJ card that was sold by the same seller that had the ad bottom trimmed off. The card was graded a PSA1 (it actually looked really nice). It looked pretty nice with the exception of the missing ad bottom:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1887-N172-Old-Judge-Pop-Tate-PSA-PR-FR-1_W0QQitemZ120046518217QQihZ002QQcategoryZ31718QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Perhaps PSA didn't grade the other cards because of excessive back damage. PSA is PSA and they seem to make their share of mistakes and they pretty much show their lack of experience when grading the many different cards that have been collected throughout the years.

In any case, before you spend your good money on OJs make sure that you know what you're getting. I wouldn't exactly trust PSA to do the right thing.