New SGC Grading scale updates!!

[glchen]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Peter- if it's a balanced system, where a card mistakenly given a numerical grade is now deemed to be trimmed, and reholdered as such, I too am okay with this system. But if it's a one-way street, where cards only go up but are guaranteed never to go down, then it's no more than a handout to good customers.

If a review can go both ways (up or down), no one would ever get their card reviewed for the fear of the grading going down for some reason. Think of a review like this like a crossover from another TPG where you specify a minimum grade and that minimum grade is the current grade on the card. I don't think anyone has problems with crossover attempts only going up or staying the same when a minimum grade is stated.

[barrysloate]

I think it will be virtually impossible for a card to get downgraded because as we've said, only high end cards for the grade will be resubmitted. Let's say you have ten SGC 50's in your collection, you are only going to send in the two or three best ones for consideration. The ones even you think might be overgraded will never be seen again by a grader. Leon's E90-1 Young (above) is a perfect candidate as it is a very high end card within the range of VG-EX.

But what if someone sends in a group of high-end 80's, with a hope of getting some 82's, and the grader notices that one card is a hairline short and probably never should have gotten the numerical grade. Is he allowed to rectify the error, or are his hands tied? That's the issue for me. The chance of any collector sending in an SGC 50 with a surface crease is nil.