Obviously he missed the boat here. Years back, I tended to trust the graders flip (a little moreso with SGC). Now I pregrade, before sending them out. I'm certain PSA's authentication engineers are overburdened, looking at billions of shiny cards all day long. I can understand this. The amount of material they must study has to be enormous. Dry waterboarding.
On the hazmat unit, we have this crazy meter. You slide in a sample and it comes out with a breakdown of all the compounds within that test. We'd mixed up some pretty weird concoctions through the thing and can't stump it... So these punchdrunk graders can concentrate on vintage. I envision a device for Shiny's, where you slide the card into a slot (like a Charlie/Metro cards) it gets ejected seconds later, freshly slabbed and accurate to 99%. With todays microengineering, developing the software library would be the toughest part. Reckon I should mention, our meter costs $70K+ and requires tech upgrades, similar to an antivirus prog.
All sellers are not crooked.
We've all sold cards that were worse than we thought, Im guilty. We've also sold far cards that were undergraded, also guilty
A career as a grader?.. Keep the big salary, I'd rather dig cesspools with a teaspoon. S
06-28-2011, 09:10 AM
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