overgrading

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by Leon

I had the same question, fwiw.......

i wanted to know what the point of returning a card that had a better grade than a person thought it warranted. Don't people send in cards again and again, cracking them out of the slabs, hoping for a higher grade or an overgrade that is borderline higher grade? Why would they send one in and ask SGC to downgrade the grade when people are cracking and sending in cards hoping for a bump in grade? That's all i wanted to know. I dont think the guy with the 10 grade art shell rookie card, that was previously two grades lower is scrambling to send it in to psa or sgc or whoever graded it a ten because he thought it got a grade it didn't deserve? He is probably happier than a clam he can now charge 10 times or more as much for the card.

It's like people sending in an autograph they find out to be bad, and asking psa or jsa to 'correct' the authentication and decertify it, it doesnt happen, even when collectors are made aware the certified autograph is bad, they still keep it in the holder and try to sell it.

i just had an honest question with no ulterior motives, has anyone ever heard of anyone turning in a card for overgrading. maybe kendrick should start it off with the wagenr. but that's psa.

[glchen]

The point of the guarantee isn't that you submitted the card, and it got a better grade than it deserved. It is more for the unsuspecting buyer that purchases the card, assuming certain qualities for that grade, and then when he receives the card, he finds that it is overgraded. For example, you buy a card that is graded as NM (84/7), but you find a spot of paper loss that the grader missed. You might say that you can return it if it's from ebay, but most ebay sellers will not allow returns on graded cards since they will say that the card has been set to that grade by an impartial TPG.