Does PSA give favoritism to certain dealers/customers?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

I am not here to convince you or tell you what you should think or believe. You are entitled to your opinion as each of us are and I do understand your skepticism. I just do not agree that it would be hard to pull off favoritism in the grading room. Here is one way it could go down: Favorite Dealer #1 gets back a submission, does not like grades, contacts his person at PSA. That person tells Favorite Dealer #1, just send those back and I will have the graders take another look.

In the short time I have been on here I have read numerous threads that refer to PSA invitationals and what goes on at them and who gets invited, etc. I think the culture of grading has an element of corruption and not all submissions are treated equally. Again this is from talking with many presumably seasoned dealers, some who have auction houses and not just guys who are bent because their 8s are usually 7s.

It could be much simpler, and still technically conform to blindness.
Grader A, B and C... All consistent. Except grader B is consistently lenient normally being a grade or two higher than the others.

Big customer is sending in a big order, office wants to expedite to make the big customer happy. So they know the tracking number and when it's delivered the pull it out and log it specially, jumping the line.

Then walk it over the grader B and ask him to do this order right away.

Quick service and better than average grades, and grader B has no idea whose card they were.