PSA OR SGC?????

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Posted By: runscott

but obviously the question is a little tougher than you feel, since this debate keeps getting repeated. With your 6 examples you have made a good point about SGC and centering. Fortunately most buyers can visually determine if a card is off-center or not, so this isn't as big of an issue as grading trimmed cards.

I don't have a problem buying PSA-graded cards, and don't think twice as long as they are PSA 6 or lower. But when I buy PSA 7-8 cards I just have to not look too closely at the edges - afraid of what I might (not) find. Fortunately I stick mainly to pre-wwi baseball, and SGC is doing great in that area, but I also like Bowman football and those still seem to be mainly PSA territory.

There are realitities to the market that we would be foolish to ignore, but I disagree with you in that I feel we can definitely change trends. We do this as customers by "voting" when we purchase slabbed cards or choose a grading company for submissions. We also do it as board members by educating others on the qualities of the various grading companies. Hopefully you will continue to participate in this process with your observations.