PSA never ceases to amaze me

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by cincyredlegs

Just to make everyone aware, Steve DOES NOT grade any packs. PSA ships the packs to Steve and Steve ONLY authenticates them. He ships back to PSA and PSA assigns a grade to them.

I agree the logistics is not great but Steve and his team are the foremost experts on un-opened material.

Mark

Mark,

Yes, that is true, he does not grade packs, he only authenticates them. However, it is, at least to me, still a conflict of interest if he is authenticating his own packs for PSA to grade.

I've heard nothing but good things about Steve and I'm sure he is a man of high integrity, but the door is open for fraud to occur if no one is checking him. There have been many dealers in our hobby with what we perceived at one time as having high integrity and look where they are now.

Does PSA allow other dealers to authenticate their own cards and PSA only assign a number grade to them, or does PSA do both the authenticating and grading? I'm pretty sure they authenticate and grade, no matter the submitter. I'm not sure why packs should be any different.

Anyway, that's just my opinion.

Edited to add: To put it another way, if I sent PSA/DNA an autographed baseball that was already authenticated through JSA and I only wanted them to grade it, would they do that or do you think hey would want to re-authenticate it as well? Sure they would. Again, not sure why packs are any different and why Steve gets to authenticate his own stuff for grading.