PSA - Grader Notes

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by tjisonline

My hope is that the notes will be better detailed. That way when images are compared that show the card to be altered, there will be notes that support the images. This should eliminate those that continue to ignore (& refuse to improve their understanding of) technology for finding altered cards.

The problem though is that they're still incompetent. I regularly find unaltered cards in authentic holders. The notes are useless when the grader is just plain wrong.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Snowman

The problem though is that they're still incompetent. I regularly find unaltered cards in authentic holders. The notes are useless when the grader is just plain wrong.

I mean, you consider cleaning cards not an alteration so are the cards you're referring to cleaned and detected as altered?

Of course if you send in a cleaned card and it comes back as altered you would think the grade is plain wrong.

So it's confusing if your talking about truly untampered cards (like some hand cut/obscure cards psa will give an A because they do zero research) or just what you personally deem as unaltered.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

I mean, you consider cleaning cards not an alteration so are the cards you're referring to cleaned and detected as altered?

Of course if you send in a cleaned card and it comes back as altered you would think the grade is plain wrong.

So it's confusing if your talking about truly untampered cards (like some hand cut/obscure cards psa will give an A because they do zero research) or just what you personally deem as unaltered.

I'm talking about cards that are in Authentic Altered holders that were clearly graded by an amateur who had no clue what they were looking at. Cards that were immediately cracked out of the holders and sent directly back to the same grading company that deemed them to be "altered" before but now give them numeric grades. Cards that I did not even clean at all.