PSA ( not happy)

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Posted By: gerard

I joined psa to get 22 cards graded, 1933 goudeys. i joined for two years to get the 12 cards graded and also another 10 cards graded.they did the 10 cards first , thinking the 10 cards where in o.k shape, 8 out of 10 got ex5 and 6's.great!the 12 free ones they did next which i thought where at least ex5's, only 4 out of 12 where ex5's the rest 3's and 4's.what the hell were they looking at!i picked the best cards to be included in the 12 bunch. sorry just wanted to vent.

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Posted By: dan mckee

PSA is great! I love Joe Orlando. Nothing but quality customer service!

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Posted By: ScottIngold

To funny.

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Posted By: Jay

For all the times you guys make fun of PSA I have to say that one of the nicest people I have ever worked with in the hobby is Cosetta Robbins in PSA's registry group. She is the best of the best!

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Posted By: barrysloate

Dan- And I know you mean that from the bottom of your heart.

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Posted By: Josh K.

could it be that psa gives lower grades to freebies in hopes that you will resubmit (and pay) for a regrade?

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Posted By: Brian

If PSA were to manipulate free submissions, would they not "over grade" the cards in hopes of stimulating future paid submissions?

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Posted By: glyn parson

I have noticed most people that complain about the cards being graded much lower then they expected missed some surface wrinkles or very minor paper loss on either the front or the back. also many first time submitters seem to overestimate the importance of eye appeal to the final grade (especially with psa).

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Posted By: Anonymous

I don't know of anyone that hasn't been bitterly disappointed with their first submission to a grading company.
And will 2nd Jay's assessment of Cosetta, she's great to work with.

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Posted By: Josh K.

for what its worth, I was only kidding in my post above (should have used a smiley). Unlike Jay B (hey Jay) Im really not a conspiracy theorist. In fact, Im an sgc guy, but I think Id be much happier with the grades if I sent my cards to psa.

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Posted By: NickM

I've been pretty accurate in getting the grades I expected - 16 of 19 I predicted correctly, and I was a grade higher than they gave it on the other 3 ('33 Goudey PSA 3 I thought would be a 4, '61 Topps PSA 7 I thought would be an 8, and '70 Kelloggs PSA 8 I thought would be a 9. Most of my submissions have been 1940s and 1950s (5 from 1949 Leaf FB) cards.

I think most of us tend to look at our own cards through rose-colored glasses.

I see plenty of overgraded PSA cards on eBay though, including a recent purchase of 9 Play Ball lower grade cards where I felt 5 were overgraded (including 1 where they missed a pencil mark).

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Posted By: cmoking

There is no doubt that there are some cards overgraded by PSA. It is also highly probable that the overgraded cards are more likely to be sold on ebay than the undergraded or fairly graded cards. Thus IMO, on a percentage basis, we see more overgraded PSA cards on ebay than the true percentage of overgraded cards. It doesn't excuse the major errors on some cards though.

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Posted By: dan mckee

What is a registry?

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Posted By: James Gallo

I just got this back from PSA today anyone see a problem here?





How the heck hard is it to do some damn checking on this stuff.

Would anyone not buy this card because the label is wrong I was planning on putting it on ebay this weekend.

I will not send PSA anything except post 1970 stuff as they don't seem to mess those up as often.

James Gallo


Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

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Posted By: Peter Thomas

I would be switching it SGC to get it out of the floater, so it would not deter me.