No, the cards wouldn't get any better, but as long as it's people doing the grading the grading will be inconsistent.
Maybe the grader didn't sleep well or argued with his wife,(Or she argued with her husband) and wasn't in a good mood.
Or maybe there was a special card going through that day and he didn't get the assignment.....
Borderline cases will seem better or worse depending on someones mood, or merely on different perceptions different days. Try taking a stack of maybe 150 cheap cards like late 70's in less than near mint. Now go through them and pick out the nicer ones. make two piles, the vg-ex and the ex. Leave them somewhere for a couple days, and sort them again. I'll bet you end up with a few that move from one stack to the other. For more fun try it at different times of the day. Say maybe right after a nice lunch and at 4:30.
Getting it 100% consistent is pretty hard And the workload can't make it any easier. I tried going through some fairly modern cards looking for the absolute best ones. 81 topps, looking at centering and corners mostly. I found I got sloppy after 3-400 cards and pretty hopeless after only 600.
And all that is why they're willing to do reviews
Steve B
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05-18-2010, 06:03 PM
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