Grade-mongers

[BeanTown]

There are so many variables we could discuss about reasons why there will always be discrepancies in grading.

1. Graders use their own interpretation for clarity of card

2. Graders might spend to much time on a card to look busy and over grade it.

3. Graders might be rushed and don't spend enough time and under grade it.

4. Political as it does matter who submits the card(s)

5. Slabs can be altered.

6. Slabs can be bought (back door or from factory over seas) and fake labels be made.

7. Graders and human.

[orly57]

I think this thread is less about the flaws in grading and more about questioning the inherent value of a grade when it is no more rare than the lesser grade. Say a hank aaron rc at a 5 is in the same population range as one in a 6. So what makes the 6 more valuable? Presumably it is a nicer looking card. But what about when it isn't?

[Scocs]

Does your card have back damage? If not, I wonder if SGC considered that "notch" in the lower left of the bottom of the card to be a deal breaker....

[Leon]

When I sold my '51 Mick in a misguided PSA 2 holder it sold for 6k, or 200% of what their idiot tecnhnical grade said. My first and probably last submission to PSA. (unless I have a registry type card )