VERY VERY disgusted with PSA--you won't believe it!!

[forazzurri2axz]

Well, after several people suggested that I mention what happened recently, I guess Dan Collins' experience with SGC prompted me to share this recent experience with PSA

First of all, I realize that perhaps it's best to crack out a graded card and submit raw instead of asking for a minimum grade as a crossover. However, my limited experience in doing so with PSA has resulted in approximately 1/3 getting the same grade, 1/3 getting a lower grade and close to 1/3 getting rejected as trimmed or altered after being graded previously BY PSA!!!

Additionally, the point of sharing this miserable experience is to point out the horrendous inconsistency (that's also a nice way of saying dishonesty) on their part.

A few months ago 29 T205 cards were submitted in PSA holders to SGC.Almost all of these were Hall of Famers or low pop, most all PSA 4 or 5. Unlike Dan, the minimum of the same grade WAS requested on all but 2 cards, a 4.5(requested a 60/5) and a psa 5 which looked like a 5.5 if not a possible psa 6 (requested a SGC 70).

Almost all of these 29 cards were graded before the half-grade system and a number of them probably could have received 1/2 grade higher if re-submitted to PSA. THE RESULTS--- ONLY HALF of these were given the same grade by SGC---they felt that 1/2 of them did not merit crossing. While I disagreed with these results, the 15 or so that they did cross were by far and away VERY STRONG for their grade ......they also did not give the two cards the higher grade as requested.

To make a long story short, and for reasons too long to go into here, a decision was made to submit the 15 that SGC HAD CROSSED back to PSA. Not only were these the strongest of the 29, not only could several possibly have received a 1/2 grade higher, but all that was asked was the SAME GRADE as a crossover..........for the same cards that had just been in PSA holders a few weeks ago

PSA REJECTED HALF OF THESE 15 CARDS, including claiming that one was trimmed---a tired grader, I doubt it.....someone who had a hassle with their spouse, unlikely!! a new employee ,Bull S___!! Does it reinforce the often "wondered" theory of favoritism to their big clients----damn right!!! Or perhaps it reinforces the theory that they do so to keep people submitting over and over again.........whatever it is, it stinks to high heaven in my book!

And by the way, the grading was ON-SITE at the Sun-Times show,submitted FIRST thing in the morning(I was first in line) and given back 10 hours later as I saw numerous "clients" submit cards in Mid-day and get them back a couple of hours later.
Should I have cracked them?? perhaps...but with this BS going on, who's to say that many of these same psa graded cards wouldn't have come back with lower or trimmed grades. It's one thing to "play the game" and be disappointed when one's raw card doesn't get a higher grade. I don't think it's too much to ask for that they are more consistent, or as some might point out, more HONEST in their business ethics.