Guess The Grade

[quitcrab]

I think grades are accurate. They can’t be 6 and 7s when you can see corner wear without the use of a loupe… and my eyes are bad !

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

I think grades are accurate. They can’t be 6 and 7s when you can see corner wear without the use of a loupe…

Disagree. There are plenty of PSA 9s with corner dings, and those are "Mint."

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by quitcrab

I think grades are accurate. They can’t be 6 and 7s when you can see corner wear without the use of a loupe… and my eyes are bad !

wut
There are countless 7s and 6s where you can see corner touches in scans or pics.
Deadpan humor maybe?

[quitcrab]

You guys should know with today’s grading if you have a clean card that you can see a touch of corner and edge wear it’s in the 4 to 5 range. If it looks real good and you can’t see wear with out a loupe it’s a 6 to 7…. Clean under a loupe with a touch of wear to one corner a 8 … no wear under a loupe and centered a 9!
It’s that simple…. It’s the new way of grading 😀

[philliesfan]

They look like 6's to me from the front, but........ Is it me or does anyone else see the severe miscut / diamond cut on the reverse of the first card? And the less but still diamond cut on the reverse of the second card? And the off centered reverse two ways on the third card?
This is why I said 4,4,4 on them.
Bob

[ASF123]

The graders have just completely lost touch with reality in terms of logic and proportionality. I mean, if I said to you, “Imagine the best looking card possible for these. Now imagine a card that looks only 40 percent as good,” would you picture anything like the ones above? Of course not.

[Peter_Spaeth]

NFW those are 4s in any realistic universe.

[ASF123]

That’s what we get when the marketplace rewards “strictness.” It will just continue to get worse unless enough people decide to stop paying to get their nice cards crapped on. Which shows no sign of happening, of course - quite the opposite.