VERY VERY disgusted with PSA--you won't believe it!!

[barrysloate]

I think we can all hopefully agree that third party grading does many good things, but that many things about it could be a lot better. How about if everything we utilize with grading were in place, but instead of using numerical grades which signify very little, we had adjectival grades.

How about getting a card in a slab that reads "VG, light creasing", or "EX, slt o/c." Frankly that would be more useful to most collectors than a number. A 3 can mean pretty much anything, but a very brief description might be more useful.

I'm in no way advocating the end of professional grading; I'm just suggesting that those numbers create more problems than they solve. They exist solely to keep the grading companies in business.

Okay, I'll await the fallout over this idea.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I think we can all hopefully agree that third party grading does many good things, but that many things about it could be a lot better. How about if everything we utilize with grading were in place, but instead of using numerical grades which signify very little, we had adjectival grades.

How about getting a card in a slab that reads "VG, light creasing", or "EX, slt o/c." Frankly that would be more useful to most collectors than a number. A 3 can mean pretty much anything, but a very brief description might be more useful.

I'm in no way advocating the end of professional grading; I'm just suggesting that those numbers create more problems than they solve. They exist solely to keep the grading companies in business.

Okay, I'll await the fallout over this idea.

I like this idea. It would be an expansion of what Beckett is already doing.

[rp12367]

So I'm still not 100% sure which is the better of the two. PSA or SGC I have several cards graded by both, mostlly T206's. It seems to me that PSA lets alot of stuff slip through and SGC is strict,but I'm sure they both have there moments.