Which one is nicer?

[Rhotchkiss]

SGC is on left, PSA on right. Personally, I prefer the one on the left, as the picture tilt and print defect on the PSA one would bug me, although I agree the picture is a bit clearer.

I don’t know what the opening bids were. I don’t follow this card. I just pulled up REA, sorted by most expensive, and they both came up quickly at the top and I instantly noted the price difference, compared the cards, could not see a material difference other than the flip, and started a thread

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

SGC is on left, PSA on right. Personally, I prefer the one on the left, as the picture tilt and print defect on the PSA one would bug me, although I agree the picture is a bit clearer.

I don’t know what the opening bids were. I don’t follow this card. I just pulled up REA, sorted by most expensive, and they both came up quickly at the top and I instantly noted the price difference, compared the cards, could not see a material difference other than the flip, and started a thread

Guessed right. And since you outed it, went and looked them up in REA's auction. And sure eough, the PSA card had a $25K opening bid, whereas the SGC card only had a $10K opening bid. Makes no sense for that disparity to me, unless the opening bids were somewhat set by the consignors, who had different ideas on what their cards would bring.

I agree with you and like the SGC card better, for the slight tilt/diamond cut and the print mark by the cap on the PSA card, and most especially for the price difference. Wow!!! Be interesting to see where these end up now.

And just now saw Mark's post about the consignor likely asking for a higher reserve on the PSA card after all. I still wonder if that opening bid disparity doesn't also play in to why some bidders will go so much more for it than the comparably graded SGC card.

[perezfan]

It's ridiculous.... The larger blown-up photos better reveal the fish-eye and tilt to the PSA example on the right. I originally thought it was a toss up, but can now see that the far less expensive one is the superior card.

[chalupacollects]

i vote left

[Peter_Spaeth]

This board may have the only people left in the hobby who actually care about the card as opposed to the flip. Which of course is fine but at this point given all that has happened there is just no reason to be surprised at the likely result here.