PSA Strikes again!!!!

[cammb]

Leach by Tony Biviano, on Flickr

Cracked this out of PSA slab and sent to SGC for regrade. Comes back as Too small. Way to go you two bit cheap grading service.

[Leon]

Probably shouldn't have cracked that one, says the guy with 20-20 hindsight.

Originally Posted by cammb

Leach by Tony Biviano, on Flickr

Cracked this out of PSA slab and sent to SGC for regrade. Comes back as Too small. Way to go you two bit cheap grading service.

[CMIZ5290]

I agree, card looked accurately graded from PSA to begin with...

[bobbyw8469]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

I agree, card looked accurately graded from PSA to begin with...

I second that...I think PSA nailed it and SGC flubbed it.

[sb1]

That does not mean it's trimmed or anything else, it did not meet their minimum size requirement. Should have left it in the PSA holder, the card is fine.

[pclpads]

Did you really, really think SGC would give it a higher grade?

[Bill77]

Even Tommy looks sad.

[Peter_Spaeth]

One card proves a whole hell of a lot. I know guys who have cracked out numerous SGC cards to have them not regrade. What's your point?

[cammb]

Originally Posted by pclpads

Did you really, really think SGC would give it a higher grade?

T

On the contrary, I asked for a vg (40) grade.

[KCRfan1]

Any opportunity to resubmit to PSA with the label and ask for a new slab?

[benjulmag]

"A" grades can come about with no evidence of trimming or other alteration, other than the size of the card itself. For my tastes, I would value an undersized card with nothing else wrong with it higher than a card (undersized or not) with clear evidence of trimming. I would like to see the "A" grade amplified, by specifying the basis for the designation. That way the market will have more information to determine the card's value. I would also like to see the grading companies take provenance into account in deciding whether to grade an undersized card an "A". I know of instances of cards that came from collections where there was no reasonable likelihood of trimming (e.g., postwar cards Lionel Carter got straight out of the pack), that received "A" grades solely because they were undersized. In those instances, I think it would be okay for the grading company to give such cards numerical grades.

[robw1959]

Literally ANYTHING can happen when you resubmit cards. Here's a funny story of mine: I recently cracked out a 1955 Bowman PSA-4 card of Willie Mays that looked absolutely like an 8. I sent it to SGC, thinking PSA has severely undergraded it, but it came back as trimmed! I looked at the card very carefully, examining the edges in the light, and saw that it was indeed trimmed.