Forum Shopping within grading companies

[JollyElm]

When thinking about grading companies, you always have to keep one thing in mind. It's a business.

Baseball itself (except for specific things like ground rules at certain stadiums), is governed by universal rules. An out is an out and a home run is a home run, no matter where you are playing. The rules are codified. When an expansion team enters the league, they, too, play by the same exact rules as everyone else.

But that is not the case with grading companies. They do not share standards that fall under universal guidelines. What's an 8 to PSA may not be an 8 to SGC or any other company. They are not grading cards by using the same specific rules, so there will never be uniformity. Quite frankly, graders can do whatever they want and apply their own standards to the task at hand, just like Ford conducts business differently than Chevrolet.