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Posted By: andy becker

paul, i respect you opinion.
but as many of the other board members have said, the bashing has run it's course.

so i will address your post as you did mine....

Yes, I do take the opportunity, don't I?

yes, you do.....and if you ever had someone tell you the same thing over and over and over and over and over....well i think you get my drift.

Well, if my entire collection was in PSA holders, I would be stupid for two reasons for bashing them -- (1) that would not be profitable, true; but, more importantly (2) why would I keep my holders in PSA holders if I disliked the company? I wouldn't, I didn't, and now I don't.

i am not questioning your intellengence, i only ask that you stop questioning, by inference, the intellegence of anyone who uses psa.

The Harris Collection cards were a big production for PSA. They earned quite a bit of publicity by grading those cards as high as they did. It is only natural to question whether they encapsulated sharp, but trimmed, cards. I am not speaking from experience on the Harris Cards, but I am speaking from experience about crossed over PSA cards graded 5 and 6 that got bounced by SGC as a result of creases and trimming.

they were a big production for mastro too, if i recall. did mastro trim the cards you are questioning? did they compensate psa for overlooking said trimmed cards?

do you know how the harris collection was compiled?

Mmm, no, not in terms of profit making. But I think they are less about turning a fast buck and more about customer satisfaction and consistency. That is my opinion from my experience.

again, i appreciate your opinion.

Did you crack them out first? If so, then it would appear that SGC grades less stringently. But that has never been my concern. I am more concerned about consistency, and I know what an SGC 60 will look like when I get a close look at it. I never know whether a PSA 5 will be crease free. I've held too many that aren't.

yes. and sgc overlooked defects in cards that were psa 4's and graded them sgc 80's.
but, if you think consistancy is the key....then perhaps pro is the way to go. they consistantly grade out 9's and 10's


I just really dislike the PSA product. I think it is inferior and untrustworthy. I prefer SGC and have most of my best cards and my T206 collection graded by SGC. I would like SGC to take over market share. That would be good for my collection. But it would also be very good for the hobby.

we know your opinion. again, i will stand by my statement that your constant psa bashing is motivated by the possiblility that your collection will increase in value should sgc gain more market share.

by the way paul, what if the famous cracker jack collection
was graded by psa? would you think many of the cards were trimmed and bleached?

lastly....paul, why do you collect images of psa's errors?
what's the point?

and, i'm going to say it again.....i support psa and sgc. i use both services to grade cards. and i find both services to be very good. competition is a good thing.