Mile High Auction: Item Graded PSA "Authentic" ???

[swarmee]

Agreed. Not everything needs a number grade. And it's been proven PSA is awful at determining the ones that deserve numbers and the ones that don't.

[Johnny630]

Does anyone else think at this point that PSA’s brand has lost its relevance in being able to consistently determine wether a Card has been altered or not?
To me they have ......registry and pop mean nothing to me...their pop report has always been inaccurate. It was a perfect Marketing Campaign to Target Collectors and Rich People whom are super competitive to Chase Being Number 1, it worked For their bottom line.
However in light of the recents discovered by BO
Can we have a New Pop Report Created by Newport Beach Highlighting altered Cards in their holders with number grades
Thoughts and Opinions????

[Robbie]

Thank you Glyn, Mark and John for your replies.

I posted this on the card side because you guys seem to understand PSA better... if that is possible.

There are some rel inconsistencies with this "grading," and I would love to hear why people think the other raw Passes were not graded.

I'm not good with the technology here, but if I can copy this to the memorabilia side, I will. Thanks!

[mybestbretts]

I had some tickets submitted to PSA when they first started grading tickets and didn't know they could have a grade. The tickets were simply graded "authentic".
I think I was more concerned they were not fraudulent then I was as to a grade

[asphaltman]

I was lucky to pick up a couple of these tickets I was going after last night. A couple went for surprisingly good money to me though.

[stlcardinalsfan]

I went to sleep and missed out on the 1923 World Series tickets... I thought the debut tickets went for good money... I still managed to buy about 6 tickets

[Robbie]

They had a lot of great tickets and passes in this auction!

Once I understood that an "Authentic" grade is pretty much standard throughout the hobby for grading passes, even I got into the action and won a great pass!

[drcy]

Originally Posted by Robbie

They had a lot of great tickets and passes in this auction!

Once I understood that an "Authentic" grade is pretty much standard throughout the hobby for grading passes, even I got into the action and won a great pass!

Good job.

Tickets might be like vintage autographed cards. Autographed cards are sometimes graded and sometimes not (just authenticated)-- the latter often just because all the collector cares about is the authenticity. Autograph collectors aren't as concerned about number grades as trading card colletors.